More than 20 Chinese military planes were detected around Taiwan, with 11 crossing a sensitive median line separating the self-ruled island from China, Taipei’s defence ministry said yesterday, the first significant show of force since the weekend’s presidential election.

The Indian Navy said yesterday it had rescued the crew of a US-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi movement as tensions in the region’s sea lanes disrupted global trade.

A boat ride during picnic turned tragic when at least 16 people, including 14 school children and two teachers, died as the vessel carrying them capsized in a lake in western Indian state of Gujarat's Vadodara district this evening.

Baluchistan is a restive region shared by Iran and Pakistan where security forces on both sides of the border have for years battled militant groups but which now risks being the subject of escalating tensions between the neighbours

The death toll from Pakistan strikes on a border region in Iran's southeast rose to nine, state media reported on Thursday, up from seven earlier

In the backdrop of Iran targeting the “terror bases” in Pakistan, India has said it understands the “actions that countries take in their self-defence” and maintained that it has an “uncompromising” position of “zero tolerance” towards terrorism

Pakistan recalled its ambassador from Iran yesterday and blocked Tehran’s envoy from returning to Islamabad after an Iranian air strike killed two children in the west of the country a day earlier.

China’s population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed yesterday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming demographic crisis.

Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed at least two times in 2022 along their Himalayan frontier where they have been involved in a bitter standoff since 2020, according to new details that have emerged from the Indian Army’s gallantry award citations.

Twenty-three people have died after an explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand yesterday, the provincial governor said.

Pakistan said today that Iran carried out an air strike on its territory that killed two children, after Tehran launched attacks in Iraq and Syria against what it called "anti-Iranian terrorist groups"

At least 18 people have died after an explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand on Wednesday, a rescue worker said

Malaysia will review bilateral agreements with 15 nations from which it sources labourers in a bid to address exploitative practices and manpower imbalances that have left thousands of migrant workers stranded without jobs, officials said

India’s Supreme Court yesterday halted plans for a survey of a centuries-old mosque to determine if it contained Hindu relics and symbols, just days before another key temple, built on a razed mosque, is set to be inaugurated. 

Former Pakistan prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan on Monday alleged that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was “playing with the support” of “two umpires” and one of them had recently given a “no-ball” in his favour.

China summoned the ambassador from the Philippines yesterday and warned the country “not to play with fire” after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr congratulated Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te on his election victory.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has sent a congratulatory message to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud

North Korean hackers are sharing money-laundering and underground banking networks with fraudsters and drug traffickers in Southeast Asia, according to a United Nations report published yesterday, with casinos and crypto exchanges emerging as key venues for organised crime

Around 1,000 tourists remain stranded in a remote holiday village after avalanches hit China's northwestern Xinjiang region with metres-high snow and fickle weather impeding evacuation, state TV reported on Tuesday

Kim Jong Un threatened South Korea with war if "even 0.001 mm" of the North's territory is violated, as Pyongyang abolished agencies that oversaw cooperation and reunification, state media said Tuesday