Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, is to be sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image.

Hundreds of police were deployed in an Indian city yesterday after the murder of a Hindu tailor allegedly by two Muslims in revenge for inflammatory comments about Islam by a ruling party member. 

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa’s news company Rappler was ordered yesterday to shut down, a day before President

Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched yesterday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down.

India's biggest cement producer, UltraTech Cement, is importing a cargo of Russian coal and paying using Chinese yuan, according to an Indian customs document reviewed by Reuters, a rare payment method that traders say could become more common.

Journalists should not be jailed for “what they write, what they tweet and what they say” and it is important that people be allowed to express themselves freely without the threat of any harassment, a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said.

A Philippine news site co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been ordered to shut down, the company said Wednesday, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte -- its arch-nemesis -- leaves office.

Leaders across India's political spectrum have denounced the beheading of a 40-year-old tailor in Udaipur and demanded exemplary punishment for his killer.

Condemning the murder of a tailor in Udaipur, Ajmer Sharif Dargah Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan yesterday (June 28, 2022) said that Muslims in India would never allow a talibanisation mindset to take root.

China’s foreign minister will travel to Myanmar this weekend for a regional meeting, a junta spokesman told AFP yesterday, in what will be Beijing’s highest-profile visit since the military seized power. 

A Sri Lankan government minister was in Qatar yesterday and another will travel to Russia at the weekend in search of energy deals to alleviate a severe fuel shortage that is crippling the economy of the island nation and forcing many schools to close.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan with a warm embrace today as the former made a brief stopover at Abu Dhabi on his return from the G-7 summit in Munich.

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has stepped down as director of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, the conglomerate's telecom arm said on Tuesday.

A tailor, who allegedly made a social media post in support of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, was brutally murdered in his shop in India’s Udaipur today (June 28, 2022). The incident has triggered communal tension in the area, police said.

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has tweeted that the Delhi Police are “bending over backwards to please sahibs”.

An Afghan aid agency yesterday appealed for cash for survivors of a deadly earthquake, saying it had no room to store food and had enough

Troops in Sri Lanka yesterday handed tokens to people queueing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo and public employees were asked to work from home.

Indian journalist and Alt News portal co-founder Mohammad Zubair was arrested today (June 27, 2022) by the Delhi Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, said officials.

Bangladesh’s recent cut in import duty of non-basmati rice has pushed up prices of the grain in India’s domestic markets by ten percent in the last five days, and is causing a rush among Indian exporters to go for deals with the neighbouring country.

Sri Lanka has raised its fuel prices, causing further pain for people as officials from the United States arrived for talks in an effort to support the island nation amid its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948.