United States climate envoy John Kerry yesterday voiced hope that Beijing and Washington would work together more closely on the climate emergency after they struck a pact to accelerate action against greenhouse gas emissions.

Myanmar security forces have arrested a former lawmaker and prominent hip-hop artist accused of masterminding a string of attacks targeting regime forces and officials, the junta said yesterday.

There may be as many as 300 vessels from China’s maritime militia patrolling the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea at any one time as Beijing continues to stake its controversial claim on the disputed waters, according to new research from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in the United States.

Electoral politics in a democracy like India is all about taking the right decision at the right time and popular perception.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, Zahra Joya dressed as a boy and called herself Mohammad, allowing her to circumvent the Islamist group’s ban on girls going to school.

The United Nations said yesterday it wants proof of the whereabouts of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, missing ever since she made sexual assault allegations against a former vice-premier.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have caved in to farmers' demands that he scraps laws they say threaten their livelihoods.

The Sikh community yesterday opened the doors to five gurudwaras to Muslims to offer their Friday (Juma) namaz in Gurugram (formerly Gurgaon) district, near New Delhi.

Bowing to year-long sustained street agitation by farmers, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that his government has decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws passed by parliament last year and apologised to the country.

Sikh pilgrims have begun to arrive in Pakistan to visit one of their holiest shrines before the birth anniversary of the religion’s

Indian troops have killed seven suspected militants in Kashmir this week, including a district commander, in an offensive following recent killings by militants, police said on Wednesday.

A Chinese envoy has lobbied Southeast Asian nations to let Myanmar’s military ruler attend a regional summit being hosted by China’s president next week but has met stiff opposition, diplomatic sources said yesterday.

Japanese researchers have crafted a “super clone” of an Afghan mural destroyed by the Taliban, using a mix of traditional and digital techniques that they hope will salvage the work’s “spirit” for future generations.

Air pollution remained extremely high in the Indian capital on Thursday, a day after authorities closed schools indefinitely and shut some power stations to reduce smog that has blanketed the city for much of the month.

In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, a justice ministry official said on Thursday.

India’s Supreme Court today quashed the Bombay High Court verdict which had held that no offence of sexual assault -- under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act -- is committed if there is no “skin-to-skin contact” between an accused and the victim.

The United Nations has adopted a resolution on the "situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar" for the first time by consensus.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for two explosions that hit a heavily Shi'ite Muslim area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding at least six others including three women.

Pakistan’s parliament yesterday passed a law allowing electronic vote counting despite furious protests from the opposition which said it had been pushed through by the government to rig the next election.

A Russian-brokered ceasefire was holding yesterday at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, officials said, a day after deadly clashes