Premier Li Qiang will lead China’s delegation to the G20 summit in India this weekend, Beijing said yesterday, all but confirming President Xi Jinping will snub the meeting of the world’s biggest economies.

India skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill remained unbeaten as the seven-time champions hammered cricketing minnows Nepal by 10 wickets in yesterday’s rain-hit match to enter the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup.

The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government on Sunday revoked the suspension of a college teacher who had recently argued against the scrapping of Article 370 in the Supreme Court.

A man shot and wounded a Christian priest in eastern Pakistan, according to a police complaint released yesterday, just weeks after vigilante mobs in the area attacked churches and burnt down homes, displacing hundreds in the small religious minority community.

Representatives of 15 news titles in Asia emphasised the need for elevating cooperation and making Asia's voice heard during today's Asia News Network annual board meeting in Beijing

Hong Kong experienced its hottest summer on record this year, with the city seeing "record-breaking" temperatures, the government said Monday, the latest region to experience the impact of a warming planet.

The Vikram lander of India’s successful moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, underwent a hop test when it made a soft-landing again on the lunar surface.

A bomb attack on a government compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawady killed five government and security officials and wounded 11 policemen, sources told AFP on Monday

North Korea conducted a simulated tactical nuclear attack drill that included two long-range cruise missiles in an exercise to “warn enemies” the country would be prepared in case of nuclear war, the KCNA state news agency said yesterday.

The remark on Sanatana Dharma by DMK chief MK Stalin’s minister son shows that the Opposition bloc INDIA “hates Hinduism” and is “an attack on our heritage”, India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah said yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on the United Nations to reform in line with 21st century realities to ensure the representation of voices that matter, according to an interview published yesterday.

Indonesia is introducing a golden visa scheme to attract foreign individual and corporate investors in an attempt to boost its national economy, a statement from the ministry of law and human rights distributed on Sunday said

PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is incarcerated in Attock Jail, has ruled out "any deal to seek his release and asserted he would never leave Pakistan," his lawyers claimed, after meeting the ex-prime minister

Following quickly on the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket yesterday to study the sun in its first such solar mission.

Taiwan said yesterday it supported the efforts of the Vatican to reach out to Beijing and hoped the move would improve China’s “deteriorating religious freedom and human rights issue”.

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast yesterday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a string of recent Pyongyang military actions.

As India's Chandrayaan-3 nears the conclusion of its planned exploration period of one lunar day, equivalent to 14 days on earth, the Indian Space Research Organization today says it is preparing to put the lander and the rover in sleep mode

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast on Saturday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a string of recent Pyongyang military actions..The launches come three days after the North launched a pair of short-range ballistic missiles as part of a "tactical nuclear strik

Nine soldiers were killed in a restive western region of Pakistan on Thursday after a suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into their military convoy and detonated, army and officials said.

Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other southern Chinese megacities sheltered indoors yesterday as Super Typhoon Saola threatened to become the strongest storm to hit the region in decades.