Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has applied for a royal pardon, the speaker of parliament said on Monday, less than two weeks after he was sent to jail for 12 years for corruption.

At least eight people were killed overnight in an earthquake in north-eastern Afghanistan and the toll could rise, according to an official quoted by the state news agency.

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan breached the country’s largest freshwater lake yesterday, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering flood water, a minister said.

China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu will visit Russia next week, state media reported yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking Communist Party politician to travel to the country since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

There is growing hatred since the BJP government came to power in India, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi said yesterday from the stage at the Congress’s mega rally against price rise at the Ramlila ground in Delhi. He said people are afraid -- about their future, inflation, and unemployment -- and that’s turning them towards hate. “BJP and RSS are dividing the country,” he added.

Two Chinese fighter jets crossed on Sunday the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which normally acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as Beijing continues its military activities near the island.

Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons --one of India’s biggest industrial groups-- was killed today (September 4, 2022) when the Mercedez Benz car carrying him hit a road divider in western Indian state Maharashtra's Palghar district neighbouring Mumbai, a senior police officer said.

The leader of Myanmar’s military junta will travel to Russia next week for economic talks, state media in the Southeast Asian nation reported yesterday.

The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb yesterday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale.

Deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced calls for his arrest yesterday after returning home from self-imposed exile under the protection of the government that took charge when he fled.

Super Typhoon Hinnamnor is approaching Japan's southerly Okinawan islands with hurricane-force winds that prompted the local authorities to order evacuations and airlines to cancel flights.

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was provided on Saturday with an official residence and security by the government after he returned to the country he had fled in July during economic unrest, two senior officials said.

Two more mortar shells fired from Myanmar fighter jets landed inside Bangladeshi territory in Bandarban this (September 3, 2022) morning, police said.

Indonesia has raised subsidised fuel prices by about 30 percent on Saturday, top officials said, as the government moves to rein in ballooning subsidies despite a risk of mass protests.

A nursing home in southern Japan is "hiring" babies for a very important job -- to keep its elderly residents company and make them smile. The salary? Nappies and milk formula.

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home in the early hours of Saturday after fleeing the country in July, a senior security official said.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home early today, a top defence official told AFP yesterday.

A Myanmar junta court yesterday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail “with hard labour”, for electoral fraud in the 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, a source said.

A suicide bomber struck one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 18 people, including an influential imam who earlier this year called for those who commit “the smallest act” against the government to be beheaded.

India debuted its first locally made aircraft carrier yesterday, a milestone in government efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign arms and counter China’s growing military assertiveness in the region.