A marine tanker carrying industrial fuel sank in rough seas off the Philippines yesterday, causing a large oil spill as coast guard rescuers search for a missing crew member, officials said.

Typhoon Gaemi roared into southeastern China yesterday after sweeping across Taiwan, where it killed three people, triggered flooding and sank a freighter before barrelling west across the Taiwan Strait.

Myanmar’s junta and an ethnic minority armed group both claimed yesterday they were in control of a town and regional military command in northern Shan state following days of clashes.

Typhoon Gaemi swept through northern Taiwan on Thursday, killing two people, bringing floods and snarling traffic, before heading across the sea and into China where it is expected to dump more torrential rain

Eighteen people were killed when a regional passenger plane belonging to Nepal’s Saurya Airlines crashed and caught fire while taking off from the capital Kathmandu yesterday, officials said.

Separate firefights in India’s Jammu and Kashmir killed a soldier and a suspected militant near the disputed territory’s militarised unofficial frontier with Pakistan, India’s military said yesterday.

School summer holidays will be extended by two weeks in southern Pakistan because of high temperatures, affecting more than 100,000 schools, an education official said Tuesday.

A passenger plane crashed on takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP

A plane crashed during takeoff in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Wednesday morning with 19 people aboard, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported citing an airport official

Typhoon Gaemi and a southwest monsoon brought heavy rain on Wednesday to the Philippine capital region and northern provinces, prompting authorities to halt work and classes, while stock and foreign exchange trading were suspended

India’s government will spend $24 billion on employment and training, it said yesterday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to address uneven economic growth and mollify disgruntled voters after a surprising election setback last month.

Myanmar’s acting president has taken medical leave and transferred his duties to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, the junta said on Monday.

Pakistan police raided the headquarters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party yesterday, a week after the military-backed government vowed to ban the political movement.

North Korea is launching more balloons believed to be carrying trash towards the South, Seoul’s military said Thursday, in the latest round of a tit-for-tat balloon war between the two Koreas.

Malaysia’s nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for “continuous coughing”, his aide told AFP yesterday.

A fire that tore through a shopping centre in southwestern China has killed 16 people, state media reported Thursday.

At least two people were killed and 20 injured after several coaches of a passenger train jumped the tracks in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, authorities said.

A fire that tore through a shopping centre in southwestern China has killed 16 people, state media reported Thursday

Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on Tuesday, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were poisoned

Five security personnel were killed in a firefight with gunmen in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the army and police said yesterday, with security sources saying militants had made a “tactical shift” in attacks.