Legal action will be taken against the recruiting agencies which took money from people in the name of giving jobs in Malaysia as the country is yet to open its doors for foreign workers, the expatriates' welfare and overseas employment minister says.

The Perseids, the most-watched meteor shower of the year, is happening right now.

Two bombs exploded in the Thai seaside resort of Hua Hin yesterday, killing one woman and injuring 10 people, Thai police said.

Islamic State claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, the group's Amaq news agency reported.

A referendum victory for Thailand's ruling generals over a new constitution is a "backwards" step for the country, the toppled ex-premier said yesterday as the democracy movement reels from its first poll defeat in a decade.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised vigilantes who portray themselves as protectors of cows - an animal considered sacred by Hindus.

Two people have been reportedly killed after a portion of a two-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi on the outskirts of Mumbai, reports NDTV.

Tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing have killed one woman and injured another after the pair left their vehicle, Chinese media have reported.

The brother of Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been arrested for her murder.

Pakistanis are at loggerheads over killing of social media star.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday announced plans for a new party that would join an

Indonesia yesterday defended opening fire on Chinese sailors as an action aimed at stopping illegal fishing, as China said it had

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country's northwest, an official told Reuters yesterday.

Flash floods and landslides in central Indonesia have killed at least 35 people and destroyed dozens of homes, an official said yesterday,

A crater on Mars is named after one of the villages worst hit by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

A Tokyo suburb will help women cover the cost of freezing their eggs in a pilot programme aimed at tackling the nation's declining birth rate. The Japanese city of Urayasu, about 14 kilometers (9 miles) east of Tokyo, is allocating 90 million yen ($850,000) over three years to fund the research project.

Alarmed by the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February, one of the world's biggest ever cyber heists, cybersecurity is among the top concerns discussed at Singapore's annual Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit. For the first time, the conference allots one of its six special sessions to cybersecurity.

China rebuffs US pressure to curb its activity in the South China Sea, restating its sovereignty over most of the disputed territory and saying it "has no fear of trouble".

Astronomers think, Kepler-62f, which they are calling “Super Earth”, is capable of sustaining life.

The search has resumed for a Japanese seven-year-old boy who was left by his parents in woods in a remote area of Hokkaido as a punishment.