Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory yesterday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inducted 19 new ministers into his cabinet to bolster his two-year-old

Veteran journalist MJ Akbar made his debut as a federal Indian minister last Tuesday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook an expansion of his council of ministers for the second time in just over two years.

Five protesters and a police officer were killed in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state yesterday, police said, raising the death toll in violence sparked by the death of a separatist militant to 21 since Friday.

Eight protesters were killed and more than 200 others injured in disputed Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after

Renowned Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who dedicated his life to the poor, has died at the age of 88. Edhi's family said he

Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani.

Iraqi officials have again raised the figure for the number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad.

Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said yesterday.

A mob burns down a mosque in northern Myanmar in the second attack of its kind in just over a week.

The first Indian-designed fighter jet, the Tejas, has been inducted into the country's air force, 31 years after it was first

A Taiwanese warship mistakenly launched a supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile towards China yesterday, hitting

A former monk and influential leader of Myanmar's 2007 anti-junta uprising has been freed from jail and charges

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday urged communist rebels to start killing drug traffickers, adding another

Hundreds of protesters clashed with police yesterday in Indian-administered Kashmir after two suspected insurgents

The Malaysian government’s rehiring programme for illegal foreign workers including the Bangladeshis ends.

India has successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile from a defence base off the Bay of Bengal.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague -- the world's oldest international tribunal for the peaceful resolution of

Gunmen on a motorcycle killed four paramilitary soldiers in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta yesterday, a day

Indian counter-terrorism officials yesterday arrested five men on suspicion of plotting a series of attacks across the