Nobel laureate Maria Ressa told AFP she keeps a prison "go bag", bundles of cash for bail, and runs simulations of police raids with her staff as she fights for press freedom in the Philippines.

An eight-year-old girl in India who stood to inherit a multi-million-dollar diamond fortune has instead been inducted as a nun to a strict religious order after renouncing worldly pleasures.

If China wants to reverse a decline in population, more should be done to help families raise their children, according to Wei Chao,

At least 70 people have died in a wave of freezing temperatures sweeping Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation.

Seeking to force Pakistan to hold an early national election, the opposition party led by former prime minister Imran Khan dissolved its provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa yesterday, three days after doing the same in Punjab province.

The acquittal of journalist and Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa of tax evasion charges is an "important win" for the Philippines' press, Senator Risa Hontiveros said today.

Philippine Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa was today acquitted of tax evasion, among a slew of charges she has long maintained are politically motivated, calling the verdict a victory for "truth".

Walt Disney Co's DIS.N Marvel Studios has announced the February release dates for Black Panther and Ant-Man sequels in China, marking the first time in nearly four years that the Communist country has allowed Marvel movies into its cinemas. .Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will arrive in C

China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed yesterday, as the birth rate slows in the face of mounting financial pressures and shifting social attitudes.

China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed yesterday, as the birth rate slows in the face of mounting financial pressures and shifting social attitudes.

Rescuers used drones and abseiled down a deep gorge yesterday looking for the last missing person from Nepal’s worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small children.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a conditional offer to his Indian counterpart to open talks on all outstanding issues between them, including disputed Kashmir, which he believes could be facilitated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The UN decried Tuesday the "alarming" rise in the number of Rohingya refugees lost at sea fleeing their Myanmar homeland or Bangladesh last year, warning more would die without concerted action.

Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said Tuesday, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked amid a major anti-corruption drive that has seen several ministers fired.

Nepali hospital staff began the grim task of handing over bodies to grieving families on Tuesday after a plane with 72 people on board crashed, the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades.

Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal today to search for two passengers still unaccounted for after the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, which killed at least 70 people.

China's population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy.reat Famine of 1961, also lends weight t

A top lawyer was murdered at a Pakistan high court yesterday by a colleague who shot him six times while dressed in full judicial robes, police and a witness said.

Japan and India yesterday began their first joint fighter jet exercise near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China’s growing military might.

In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for the domestic carrier went down minutes before landing.