Myanmar’s military has lost control of a strategic northern town on the Chinese border following days of clashes with three ethnic armed groups, a junta spokesman said. “Government, administrative organisations and security organisations are no longer present” in Chinshwehaw town, which borders China’s Yunnan province,

India’s cyber security unit is investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of “state-sponsored attackers”, media reported yesterday.

China said yesterday its troops were “on constant high alert” after US and Canadian warships passed through the Taiwan Strait, their second joint passage in two months.

India's cyber security agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from Apple AAPL.O, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said

More than 40 Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan in a day, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said yesterday.

North Korea is poised to close as many as a dozen embassies including in Spain, Hong Kong, and multiple countries in Africa, according to media reports and analysts, in a move that could see nearly 25 percent of Pyongyang’s missions close worldwide.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said relations between Dhaka and New Delhi are consistently "touching new heights" as he inaugurated two rail links and a power project through video conference along with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

They also inaugurated Khulna-Mongla Port Rail Line; and Unit-II of Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant

Work on the first Chinese station in the Pacific sector began in 2018. It will be used to conduct research on the region's environment, state television reported.

Armed militants shot dead a senior police officer and wounded two others in separate attacks in India’s Manipur yesterday, officials said, the latest episodes of violence in the restive state where ethnic clashes have killed at least 180 people this year.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of trying to hack into senior opposition politicians’ mobile phones,

India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in connection with an excise policy-linked money-laundering case on November 2, official sources said last night

India’s foreign minister yesterday said the country would “make all efforts” to secure the release of eight ex-navy personnel sentenced to death by a court in Qatar, reportedly for spying for Israel.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged the world to “stop the madness” of climate change as he visited Himalayan regions struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact of the phenomenon.

Thousands of people are feared to have been displaced by four days of fighting in northern Myanmar, including several hundred who reportedly fled to China, the United Nations said yesterday.

India's Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has "strongly opposed" India's abstention on the voting on the recent UN resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict and said that while her party unequivocally condemned Hamas' attacks, the tragedy is compounded with the Israeli state now focused on exacting revenge from a population that is largely as helpless as it is blameless.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the path to a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Joe Biden was “not smooth”, state media reported as the top diplomat wrapped up a rare visit to Washington.

Sri Lanka has granted 48 hours for a Chinese vessel to conduct marine research off the island’s west coast under supervision, the foreign ministry said yesterday, despite Indian concerns that it could be a spy ship.

Heavy fighting between rebels and the Myanmar military stretched into a second day near the country’s northern border with China, armed groups said yesterday.

The Maldives has started negotiations with India to remove its military presence, President-elect Mohamed Muizzu said in an interview published by Bloomberg News yesterday, as New Delhi and Beijing both vie for influence in the region.