Shanghai yesterday recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases as panic-buying in the Chinese city of about 25 million stripped supermarket shelves bare.

Detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has skipped three days of her trial in a junta court after Covid-19 was detected among her staff and she was placed in quarantine, a source with knowledge of the case said yesterday.

Pakistan’s parliament took up a no-confidence motion moved by opposition lawmakers yesterday in a bid to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan, pushing the South Asian nation closer to political turmoil.

The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country’s new rulers since seizing power.

Pakistan's parliament took up a no-confidence motion moved by opposition lawmakers on Monday in a bid to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan, pushing the South Asian nation closer to political turmoil.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday claimed that foreign powers were involved in the “conspiracy” to send his coalition government packing through a no-confidence motion tabled by the country’s joint opposition.

Myanmar’s junta will “annihilate” coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said yesterday as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.

The second black box has been recovered from last week’s deadly China Eastern plane crash, officials said yesterday, and could help solve the mystery of the jet’s breakneck descent.

Wearing of hijab would not be allowed during the 10th standard examination of the Karnataka State Board commencing tomorrow, the southern Indian state’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh said today.

A small but restive volcano near the Philippine capital Manila ejected two more plumes on Sunday, indicating continued eruption and prompting authorities to urge residents to stay out of harm's way.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that March 27 (Sunday) — when the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf plans to hold what it calls a "historic" rally in Islamabad ahead of the start of no-confidence proceedings against the premier — would be a "decisive day" in the country's history.

Myanmar's junta will "annihilate" coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday (March 27) as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.

Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box - the flight data recorder - from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in southern China, state media reported.

China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died.

North Korea likely has “more in store” after successfully test-firing its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, a top US official said Friday, as Washington called for tougher international sanctions at the UN Security Council.

Thousands of people fled their homes near a Philippine volcano Saturday after an eruption sent ash and steam hundreds of metres into the sky.

Tens of thousands of people have started marching to the Pakistani capital in a show of opposition to Prime Minister Imran Khan who is expected to face a vote of no confidence next week.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday.

About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's decision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.

The Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Marintrust-1, which tilted a couple of days ago, has been hemmed by a temporary floating barrier by authorities of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee port in Kolkata to guard against possible oil spill from the vessel, officials said.