As Bhutan celebrates the birthday of their king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the country's prime minister has a novel idea for a birthday gift.

Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of violence that have killed 33 people, police say.

Delhi High Court Judge Justice S Muralidhar, who grilled the Indian centre and state government on Wednesday over the violence in the capital that left 27 dead and over 200 injured, has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Sri Lanka yesterday notified the UN that it was withdrawing from a United Nations resolution for investigating alleged war crimes committed during a decades-long conflict with Tamil separatists.

A bus carrying a wedding party crashed into a river yesterday in India’s western state of Rajasthan killing 24 passengers, including 10 women, police said.

South Korea’s birth rate hit a new low yesterday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people.

About 14 percent of patients who recovered from the novel coronavirus and were discharged from hospitals in southern China’s Guangdong province were tested positive again in later check-ups, according to the local health authority.

The death toll from violence over the citizenship law in different parts of India’s capital Delhi rises to 27.

A Japanese man recently named the world’s oldest living male has died aged 112, a local official said yesterday. Chitetsu Watanabe, who was born on March 5, 1907 in Niigata, north of Tokyo, died on Sunday at his nursing home in the same prefecture, the official said.

Rival political factions competed to win favour with Mahathir Mohamad yesterday after he plunged Malaysia into political turmoil by resigning as prime minister, reinforcing the likelihood his shock move will strengthen his power.

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad goes back to work with the new title of interim prime minister, a day after he resigned the leadership in a shock move that plunged the country into political turmoil.

A team of four Sherpas yesterday set off to attempt a record winter ascent of Mount Everest in just five days, which would also be the first winter climb of the peak in more than quarter of a century.

Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China yesterday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing.

Sri Lanka will deploy troops to help police control worsening traffic congestion in the capital, the army said yesterday.

Schools in Kashmir reopened yesterday after remaining shut for nearly seven months following the abrogation of Article 370. Officials of the Jammu and Kashmir education department said all arrangements had been put in place for the students to attend schools after the institutions remained shut for months since August after scrapping of its special status and due to winter break.

The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan -- the city at the heart of China’s new coronavirus epidemic -- came suddenly and without warning.

Malaysia's King has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad but appoints him as interim premier.

US President Donald Trump lands in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Monday at the start of a visit during which the two sides will aim to reset relations that have been buffeted by a trade spat.

Non-residents of Wuhan may leave the quarantined city at the epicentre of China's virus epidemic if they show no symptoms and have never had contact with patients, authorities say.

China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 after the government says 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.