A Bangladeshi youth wins a gold medal in Robo Scholar Challenge Category of International Robot D Challenge in South Korea.

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Voting begins to elect a president for Afghanistan with more than 9 million Afghan registered voters potentially heading to the polls amid attacks in several cities.

The United States' top official for foreign aid issues a firm and emotional warning to Myanmar about the lack of progress over how it treats Rohingyas and other ethnic minority groups, reports ABC News.

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters rally at the harbour side, chanting slogans accusing the police of brutality and setting the stage for a weekend of demonstrations leading up to the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Bollywood’s megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been unanimously chosen for this year's Dada Saheb Phalke winner, India's highest film honour.

At least 19 people have been killed and 300 wounded after a shallow earthquake rattled north-eastern Pakistan, a senior police officer has said, with the tremor tearing car-sized cracks into roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.

In Asia, no economic or business sector is as vibrant or commands more attention of policymakers as the digital sphere, this trend well documented in a landmark study by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s first annual Digital Economy Report.

At least 26 individuals are killed and a dozen others injured in a passenger bus accident on Babusar Pass in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, says spokesperson for the GB government Faizullah Firaq.

At least 23 people were killed and 18 others injured yesterday when a bus hit a rock and plunged into a ravine in northwestern Pakistan,

Typhoon Tapah approached southwestern Japan yesterday, with heavy rain and strong winds grounding hundreds of regional flights.

India’s coast guard has arrested six Myanmar men and seized $42 million worth of ketamine after spotting a suspicious vessel in the

President Hassan Rouhani denounces the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf and said Iran will put forward a peace plan, after arch-foe the United States ordered reinforcements to the tinderbox region.

Two Indian states will go to the polls in October, the election commissioner said yesterday, in a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s

China and the Solomon Islands signed an agreement yesterday to establish diplomatic ties after the Pacific island nation ditched relations

The heckling and manhandling of India’s junior minister for Environment and Climate Change Babul Supriyo by a section of students at

Riot police and protesters in Hong Kong fought brief skirmishes near the Chinese border yesterday, the latest clashes during huge

The Maldives are not “mired in a Chinese debt trap”, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told the visiting Maldivian foreign minister,

A passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong yesterday leaving eight people injured, authorities said. Images from the scene

Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, yesterday said she and her team would begin dialogue sessions with the community next week,