A US Navy warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, irking China, which claims the waters as its territory.

China's Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma will no longer control the Chinese fintech giant after the firm's shareholders agreed to implement a series of shareholding adjustments that will see him give up most of his voting rights.

Reserve Bank of India’s Governor Shaktikanta Das yesterday said the Indian government and the central bank are in talks with South Asian countries to have cross-border trade in Indian Rupee.

Pakistan’s central bank forex reserves have plunged to an eight-year low of $5.6 billion, posing a serious challenge for the country in financing imports.

Myanmar’s junta is holding talks with three ethnic rebel groups on staging elections in areas they control, a rebel spokesman said yesterday, as the military prepares for polls the US has said will be a “sham.”

India will host a virtual summit of around 120 developing countries next week, its foreign minister said yesterday, as the country looks to bolster international cooperation during its presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) biggest economies.

In the run up to the in-person G20 summit, India will host a virtual summit on January 12 and 13 to bring together countries of global South and hear their views on food and energy security, mounting debt burdens and other economic challenges triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Covid-19 pandemic.

China expects a sharp jump in travel during the Chinese New Year holidays, with about 2.1 billion trips – by air, land and water – to be made over the period, twice as much as the same time in 2022. .The recent relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions is likely to spur people to return home to

China yesterday defended its handling of its raging Covid-19 outbreak after US President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths.

The top-selling tuna at Tokyo’s traditional New Year auction sold for more than $270,000 yesterday, nearly double last year’s price, breaking a pandemic trend of slumping demand.

Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country's north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday.

China called on the World Health Organization Thursday to take a "just" position on Covid-19, after the body criticised Beijing's "very narrow" definition of virus deaths.

Aid groups say they have been "pushed against a wall" by the Taliban prohibiting Afghan women from working for NGOs, a ban that has left a dangerous gap in life-saving support.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday said he hoped to strengthen ties with Beijing on his first state visit to China since taking office.

India has approved an incentive plan of 174.9 billion rupees ($2.11 billion) to promote green hydrogen in a bid to cut emissions and become a major exporter in the field, the information minister said yesterday. The move is targeted to help India, one of the

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said it would hold “free and fair” multiparty elections as it marked Independence Day yesterday, days after increasing Aung San Suu Kyi’s jail term to 33 years. The junta is preparing for fresh elections later this year

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka yesterday announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of

US President Joe Biden will host Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on January 13, the White House announced Tuesday.."President Biden looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan to the White House on Friday, January 13th to further deepen ties between our government

State media in China yesterday played down the severity of a surge of Covid-19 infections ahead of an expected briefing by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which is hoping for detailed data on the evolution of the virus.

South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon’s surface and Earth, the national space centre said yesterday.