Japan said Monday it was "not considering" maritime security operations after US President Donald Trump called for other countries to send warships to help protect the Strait of Hormuz

Nepal has started selling half-filled cooking gas cylinders to curb hoarding and panic buying, officials said yesterday, following import disruptions caused by the Middle East conflict.

India will hold off on signing a trade deal with the US for several months, four Indian sources said, as fresh investigations by President Donald Trump’s administration into what it calls excess industrial capacity ‌among trading partners add new friction after an early understanding last month.

Afghan authorities said yesterday that Pakistan attacks on Kabul and border provinces killed four people in the capital and two in the east, the latest deadly clashes in the long-running conflict.

The Taliban government said yesterday that three civilians were killed in southeastern Afghanistan when Pakistani forces fired mortars and artillery across the countries’ shared border.

War uncertainty takes toll on Asia travel and tourism

President Donald Trump in September signed an executive order that created the blacklist, similar to designations by the United States on terrorism

Japan said yesterday that Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai had no contact with government officials during a weekend visit in which he watched a baseball game in Tokyo.

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah unseated former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency, Election Commission data showed Saturday, with his party also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.

Balendra Shah looked set to win by a landslide in parliamentary polls, but with counting still far to go

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border yesterday as the UN said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.

A three-year-old party led by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah looked set to sweep Nepal’s general election yesterday, trouncing established rivals in a result analysts likened to a “tsunami”.

Counting for the House of Representatives continues

Shah's rise challenges Nepal's traditional political elite

Nearly six months after a wave of unprecedented youth-led protests and the deaths of 77 people forced Nepal’s then prime minister to quit, people began voting yesterday in a general election that will choose a new parliament in the Himalayan nation.

Queues began at dawn on the streets of the capital Kathmandu and in the usually sleepy eastern town of Jhapa

Sushila Karki, the interim prime minister, has urged people to vote "without any fear"

AFP journalists in Kabul heard multiple explosions and gunfire yesterday, as Afghan and Pakistani troops keep up their border battles.

Quake's epicentre was at a depth of 13 kilometres, agency says

Here are five key dates to explain the dramatic political developments in the Himalayan nation of 30 million people