A panda that China gifted to Taiwan 14 years ago as a symbol of what were then warmer ties died yesterday, after suffering a spate of seizures,

A US B-1B strategic bomber was redeployed to the Korean peninsula yesterday for a joint air drill with South Korea, Seoul’s military said, a day after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Indian Police raided the houses of several journalists yesterday in an investigation of anonymous online threats to around a dozen journalists in Indian Kashmir, a top police official said.

Malaysians yesterday voted in a general election that may fail to end the recent phase of political instability in the Southeast Asian nation as polls have predicted no clear winner.

A new coalition led by former Malaysian prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin was leading a hotly contested general election on Saturday, with opposition chief Anwar Ibrahim a close second, early results from the Election Commission showed.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test of Pyongyang's newest intercontinental ballistic missile with his daughter in tow for the first time, state media reported Saturday.

North Korea yesterday fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in one of its most powerful tests ever, with Japan saying the weapon may have had the range to hit the United States mainland.

Digital currencies need more regulation to stamp out funding for terror operations, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday at a major international forum to combat financing of extremist groups.

At least 20 people were killed, including 11 children, when a minibus crashed into a deep and water-logged ditch in southern Pakistan, police said yesterday.

India successfully launched its first privately developed rocket, the Vikram-S, yesterday, a milestone in the country’s effort to create a commercial space industry and to compete on cost.

A Pakistan court has said the intelligence reports had revealed that there were fears of an attack on former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, adding that “the government and the state have the responsibility to look into this aspect.”

India's first privately-built rocket was successfully launched today by state-owned Indian Space Research Organization from the country’s spaceport in Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh marking a milestone in the country’s space programme.

A former British envoy, an Australian economic adviser, and a Japanese journalist flew to Thailand late Thursday after being freed by Myanmar's junta in an amnesty that pardoned almost 6,000 prisoners in total.

A suspected intercontinental ballistic missile fired by North Korea is "currently flying" and may fall into Japan's economic waters, Tokyo's defence ministry said Friday.

The Asia-Pacific is no one’s backyard and should not become an arena for a big power contest, China’s President Xi Jinping said in written remarks yesterday, calling on the world to reject any cold war mentality.

Chinese President Xi Jinping scolded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an on-camera dressing down at the G20 summit, an unusual public spat that could further complicate strained relations between the countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping scolded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an on-camera dressing down at the G20 summit, an unusual public spat that could further complicate strained relations between the countries..Video recorded by reporters at the Bali summit for world leaders on We

The military junta in Myanmar has released up to 6,000 prisoners including four foreigners under an amnesty, according to independent news outlet, Myanmar Now.

North Korea has fired an "unidentified ballistic missile", Seoul's military said Thursday, the latest in a record-breaking blitz of launches that came just hours after Pyongyang warned of a "fiercer" military response to the US and its regional allies.

A Bangladesh national suffered serious injuries in a mine blast on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Fultoli in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban early yesterday.