North Korea has brought forward the possible date of a controversial "satellite" launch to as early as Sunday, regional governments say.

Densely packed slums, rampant mosquitoes and a history of rapidly spreading infections make Asia particularly vulnerable to the devastating Zika virus, posing a massive challenge for the region, health experts warn.

It might seem that the beginning of the year is all about movies with various guilds lining up to reward their favourite films and actors but it's also the time when the food industry celebrates its own by announcing “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants”.

South Korea and Japan echo US warnings that North Korea would pay a heavy price if it pushes ahead with a planned rocket launch just weeks after conducting its fourth nuclear test.

A suicide bomber kills at least nine people outside a police station in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

Twenty-seven Chinese officials have been penalised for the wrongful execution of a teenager, state news agency Xinhua says.

The first freely elected parliament in Myanmar for 50 years holds its opening session. Hundreds of new MPs, mostly from the National League for Democracy (NLD) but also some smaller parties, sworn and take their seats.

Japan's Economy Minister Akira Amari says he is resigning amid corruption allegations. But he denies personally receiving bribes from a construction company, as had been alleged by a Japanese magazine.

The $681m (£479m) deposited in the bank account of Malaysian PM Najib Razak by Saudi Arabia is to help him win the 2013 elections, a Saudi source says.

Police are searching for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of Malaysia, killing at least 13 people, officials say.

North Korea says it has arrested a US student accused of committing a "hostile act" against the state. State news agency KCNA identifies him as University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier.

One of the citizens alleges that he was forcibly shaved by Tajik police.

The Bangladeshi community in Singapore has expressed shocked at the news that 27 Bangladeshi nationals who were working there had been arrested for supporting IS, al-Qaeda.

Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured when their bus plunged off a mountain road in Japan on its way to a ski resort, in the country's worst such

Police in Indonesia have identified four out of five of the Jakarta attackers, including two previously convicted militants.

Indonesian police spokesperson says an alert has been issued throughout the country following Islamist State attack on Jakarta.

A bus taking passengers to a ski resort in central Japan veers off a mountain road, killing 14 people and injuring 27.

A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam's teachings, according to a new poll.

South Korea said yesterday that further US "strategic assets" might be deployed to the Korean peninsula, following a flyover by a US B-52 bomber in response

Beijing said yesterday it did not need to notify Vietnam about flights to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Hanoi complained to a UN aviation body