Turnout was looking muted yesterday as Hong Kongers cast ballots for city lawmakers under Beijing’s new “patriots only” rules which drastically reduce the number of directly elected seats and control who can run for office.

More than 30,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Malaysia on Sunday as the country battles some of its worst flooding in years.

Four people were killed and another eight injured on Saturday when part of a bridge ramp collapsed in Ezhou City, in China's central Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan's capital to queue outside the passport office early Sunday, a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume issuing travel documents.

A man was beaten to death in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after he allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act inside the historic Golden Temple, one of Sikhs’ most revered shrines.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged its member and non-member states to mobilise necessary financial resources for an immediate humanitarian assistance plan for Afghanistan.

Pakistan is rallying Muslim countries to help Afghanistan stave off an economic and humanitarian disaster while also cajoling the neighboring country’s new Taliban rulers to soften their image abroad.

India today successfully tested a new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the eastern state of Odisha.

A top leader of the Pakistan Taliban escaped unhurt from a suspected drone strike on a safe house in eastern Afghanistan, the militant group said yesterday.

Russia has urged Western leaders to unfreeze Afghanistan’s assets to fund humanitarian relief and avert an exodus of migrants to Europe fuelled by the Taliban’s takeover in August.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday stayed all proceedings before the Madan B Lokur Commission, appointed by the West Bengal government, to inquire into the Pegasus controversy despite the state promising to hold its hand when the apex court was seized of the issue and awaiting report from its technical expert panel headed by Justice RV Raveendran, a former SC judge.

The Indian government has cleared a proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, according to media reports, as women’s rights activists fear the move could lead to a “real disaster”.

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court yesterday wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi that is the typical uniform for prisoners in the country, a source with knowledge of the court proceedings said.

A representative for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority community testified in an Argentine court Thursday as a part of an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by the Asian country’s military rulers.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday said his country would remain closely connected with its Bangladeshi friends to jointly achieve development and prosperity.

At least 24 people were killed after a blaze gutted a mental health clinic in a commercial building in the Japanese city of Osaka yesterday, local media said, with police reportedly considering it a possible arson case.

A court in India today awarded life sentence to three Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh militants and 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to five other JMB members in a case relating to a bomb blast in Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya in eastern state of Bihar in 2018.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has assured President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that India will stand in support of Bangladesh that embodies values that emerge from the Liberation Movement of the country.

Bhutan today named Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for its highest civilian honour “Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo”.

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in downtown Osaka in western Japan on Friday left 24 dead in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson and murder.