Pakistan has stepped up efforts to secure money from an international money lender and a friendly state as the South Asian country faces an unprecedented economic crisis.

Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.

A prisoner was killed and more than 60 wounded after a riot broke out at a Myanmar prison west of Yangon, the junta said yesterday.

China yesterday marked the first day of “chun yun”, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world’s largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid-19 infections.

Indian authorities have ordered immediate evacuation of nearly 600 families from their houses in the Himalayan town of Joshimath, an official said yesterday, after hundreds of buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tourists developed cracks due to shifting soil.

Jack Ma will cede control of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, the company announced yesterday, following a Communist Party crackdown on the nation’s tech sector that targeted the charismatic billionaire.

A US Navy warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, irking China, which claims the waters as its territory.

China's Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma will no longer control the Chinese fintech giant after the firm's shareholders agreed to implement a series of shareholding adjustments that will see him give up most of his voting rights.

Reserve Bank of India’s Governor Shaktikanta Das yesterday said the Indian government and the central bank are in talks with South Asian countries to have cross-border trade in Indian Rupee.

Pakistan’s central bank forex reserves have plunged to an eight-year low of $5.6 billion, posing a serious challenge for the country in financing imports.

Myanmar’s junta is holding talks with three ethnic rebel groups on staging elections in areas they control, a rebel spokesman said yesterday, as the military prepares for polls the US has said will be a “sham.”

India will host a virtual summit of around 120 developing countries next week, its foreign minister said yesterday, as the country looks to bolster international cooperation during its presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) biggest economies.

In the run up to the in-person G20 summit, India will host a virtual summit on January 12 and 13 to bring together countries of global South and hear their views on food and energy security, mounting debt burdens and other economic challenges triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Covid-19 pandemic.

China expects a sharp jump in travel during the Chinese New Year holidays, with about 2.1 billion trips – by air, land and water – to be made over the period, twice as much as the same time in 2022. .The recent relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions is likely to spur people to return home to

The top-selling tuna at Tokyo’s traditional New Year auction sold for more than $270,000 yesterday, nearly double last year’s price, breaking a pandemic trend of slumping demand.

China yesterday defended its handling of its raging Covid-19 outbreak after US President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths.

Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country's north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday.

China called on the World Health Organization Thursday to take a "just" position on Covid-19, after the body criticised Beijing's "very narrow" definition of virus deaths.

Aid groups say they have been "pushed against a wall" by the Taliban prohibiting Afghan women from working for NGOs, a ban that has left a dangerous gap in life-saving support.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka yesterday announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of