At least 18 people were killed and nearly 100 were missing today after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in northeast India to burst its banks

The death toll in the flash flood in north eastern Indian state of Sikkim has mounted to 14 while 102 others, including 22 army personnel, remained missing, officials said today

A United Nations investigation into Myanmar yesterday urged the country's military rulers to end forced labour in the army and to halt all violence against trade unionists

At least ten people were killed in India’s state of Sikkim and 82 others, including 23 army personnel, were missing after heavy rainfall caused the glacial Lhonak lake to overflow, spurring catastrophic flooding in the region yesterday, officials said.

At least ten people were killed in India's state of Sikkim and 82 others, including 23 army personnel, were missing after heavy rainfall caused the glacial Lhonak lake to overflow, spurring catastrophic flooding in the region todayday, officials said

Ministers and MPs engaged in a nearly four-hour-long exchange on Tuesday on an ongoing $2.8 billion money laundering probe, the largest in Singapore

Singapore said it was expecting more arrests and seizures as the Asian financial hub investigates one of its biggest cases of money laundering, in which the value of assets seized now stands at S$2.8 billion ($2 billion).

Four earthquakes jolted western Nepal yesterday afternoon, injuring one person, damaging homes and triggering a landslide that blocked a major highway, authorities said, sending tremors as far away as the Indian capital.

Indian police yesterday raided the New Delhi office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it as part of an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of the media company, two government officials said.

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi men returned home yesterday after serving jail terms in different prisons in Myanmar.

Pakistan yesterday ordered all illegal immigrants to leave the country or face expulsion after revealing that 14 of 24 suicide bombings in the South Asian nation this year were carried out by Afghans.

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

More than 1,000 people were arrested yesterday in India’s remote northeast during the second government crackdown on illegal child marriages in the region this year, authorities said.

The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end the foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation.

More than 1,000 people were arrested today in India's remote northeast during the second government crackdown on illegal child marriages in the region this year, authorities said

Thai police on Tuesday said they had arrested a 14-year-old suspected gunman after a shooting at a luxury mall in the capital Bangkok that emergency services said had killed three people and injured four others

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday

China yesterday congratulated Mohamed Muizzu, the pro-Beijing winner of a recent presidential election in the Maldives.

Pakistan police busted an organ trafficking ring run by a disgraced doctor and a motor mechanic, who conducted at least 328 illegal kidney transplants, authorities said

Indonesia launched Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday, a delayed, multibillion-dollar project backed by China that President Joko Widodo hailed as "a symbol of our modernisation"