Indian government has imposed an USD 850 per tonne minimum export price (MEP) on onion shipments.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has commended 58 countries and the European Union for supporting the cause of a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in the line with UN Security Council resolutions and international laws.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday called on the United States to make efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, warning that applying “maximum pressure” would never work.

Visibility worsens in Malaysia's capital, with Kuala Lumpur's iconic towers shrouded by haze.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a fresh test of a “super-large multiple rocket launcher” system, state media said yesterday -- the latest in a series of provocations by Pyongyang.

Much is still to be desired from the efforts of local governments to stop the dengue epidemic as the number of cases has risen to nearly 250,000 nationwide with more than 1,000 dead, over a third them children.

Australian government officials advised India to ban Chinese technology maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from supplying parts for a rollout of a high-speed telecommunications network, Australian newspapers report.

Malaysia is looking to diversify into food crops, in the face of fluctuating commodity prices and Western countries' hostility towards palm oil.

A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with ferocious winds killed one person, police says, as halted trains caused commuter chaos and more than 100 flights are cancelled.

The Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, ISRO chairman K Sivan

India’s Union home minister Amit Shah yesterday asserted that the Centre will not touch Article 371 which grants special provisions to

Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer

A strong typhoon that could bring record winds and rain was poised to make a direct hit on Tokyo later yesterday, as authorities issued

The three-day long Asia Regional Youth Festival 2019 will begin on September 11 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in a bid to empower young people in the region to hold our governments accountable to international human rights commitments.

US President Donald Trump says on he has called off a secret summit with the Taliban and Afghanistan's leader, abruptly slamming the door on a year of diplomacy to end America's longest war.

Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong yesterday and thwarted plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport, days after

Pakistan yesterday said it had denied India’s President Ram Nath Kovind permission to fly through its airspace -- access to which is

An express train travelling at around 120 kilometres per hour smashed into a truck at a crossing south of Tokyo yesterday, sparking a

North Korea has told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body’s programs have failed “due to the politicization of UN assistance by hostile forces,” according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

A Taliban suicide blast in the centre of Kabul killed at least 10 civilians and two NATO soldiers, destroying cars and shops in an area near the headquarters of Afghanistan's international military force and the US embassy.