Hong Kong lawmakers yesterday rejected a Beijing-backed electoral reform package derided as "fake democracy" during mass protests last year, leaving the city in deadlock

The owner of a hatchery has continued construction of a boundary wall, grabbing government forestlands at Lokkhindor village in

North Korea has been hit by its worst drought in a century, state media said yesterday, sparking fears of worsening food shortages in the impoverished communist country.

Another patient has died in South Korea amid an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing total fatalities to 16.

The NDA government said yesterday it had granted citizenship to nearly 4,300 Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan in its one year of being in power, nearly four times the number granted to such persons in the preceding five years under UPA-II.

Hong Kong police arrested nine people and seized suspected explosives, authorities said yesterday, as the city goes on high alert ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package that sparked widespread protests last year.

Pro-democracy campaigners took to the streets of Hong Kong yesterday, but in far smaller numbers than expected, before a vote on a political reform package that has divided

South Korea yesterday reported its 15th death from the MERS virus as the growing outbreak that has now infected 145 forced one of the nation's biggest hospitals to suspend

Pakistan imposes one-month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, giving temporary reprieve to a death row prisoner whose lawyers say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

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Myanmar says it is determined to stop the departures of migrants fleeing religious persecution, but won't address the reasons behind their exodus.

China's ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang has been jailed for life - the most senior politician to face corruption charges under Communist rule.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no condition was imposed on US$ 2 billion Line of Credit to be provided as loans to Bangladesh by India.

Chinese surgeons uses 3D printing technology as part of a successful operation to separate conjoined twins.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by her neighbour in Bhangamura area under Sadar upazila of Bandarban district on Saturday.

A court here yesterday sentenced three people to death for killing a schoolboy after abduction in 2013.

Rescuers bowed their heads and ships' hooters blared in tribute to the victims of Communist China's worst shipping disaster yesterday, as relatives of the 431 dead and 11 still

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upholds the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.

Brig RP Singh, VSM (retd), an Indian war veteran who participated in the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, has written an open letter to the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh.

The plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar has been in the spotlight last month after thousands of migrants have been left stranded at sea but not all the images being shared online are what they seem to be.