A powerful tropical storm lashes Japan, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that claimed at least one life, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period.

Hong Kong's airport resumes operations, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.

At least 18 people were killed and 14 others missing as Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China yesterday, downing thousands of trees and forcing more than a million people from their homes.

Super Typhoon Lekima slammed into southeastern China, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that knocked out power, downed thousands of trees and forced more than one million people from their homes, state media reports.

China issued a red alert for incoming Super Typhoon Lekima which is expected to batter eastern Zhejiang province early today with high

A court in Kyrgyzstan has ordered the country’s former president to be held in pre-trial detention after he was seized from his

Marine heatwaves are killing coral reefs far more quickly than previously believed, according to a new study released yesterday.

A knife-wielding man stabbed three nurses and a policeman at a hospital in western Japan yesterday, police said, the latest stabbing incident in the country.

Kyrgyzstan’s former president Almazbek Atambayev was detained in a major security operation yesterday, Kyrgyz media said, after clashes between his supporters and law enforcement left one dead and dozens injured.

The Hong Kong office of China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday lodged stern representations with the United States, urging US officials to stop sending wrong signals to the “violent separatists” in Hong Kong.

Pakistan has once again closed a corridor in its airspace in a move that will result in an additional 12 minutes of flying time for overseas flights from India, a spokesman of state-owned Air India official says.

The Government has put Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on high alert in the wake of recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir and the Independence Day celebrations.

More than 500 people have been rounded up in the latest crackdown in Indian Kashmir which has been on the edge since the right-wing government revoked its autonomy, reports say.

Chinese media outlet Global Times reports that Huawei will launch the first commercial devices powered by its in-house operating system this year.

Protesters in Hong Kong must not “play with fire” and mistake Beijing’s restraint for weakness, China said yesterday in its sharpest

The BJP-led government in India has gained much support for the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019, both from

North Korea yesterday threatened to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth pair of projectiles in less than two weeks

China warned yesterday it would take unspecified countermeasures if the United States goes ahead with plans to deploy ground-based

North Korea threatens to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth pair of projectiles in less than two weeks following the start of joint exercises between the US and the South.

Maldives police on Sunday said they had arrested former vice-president Ahmed Adeeb and were bringing him to the capital Male after he