Many victims of an arson attack on a Japanese animation studio were young with bright futures, some joining only in April, the shaken company president says, as the death toll climbed to 34.

The death toll from a huge explosion that rocked a gas plant in central China rose to 10, state media says, with five people still missing.

Himalayan Airlines, one of the private carriers of Nepal is going to commence Kathmandu-Dhaka-Kathmandu direct flight.

The man suspected of setting ablaze a beloved Japanese animation studio, killing 34 people, was raging about theft and witnesses and media reports he had a grudge against the company, as questions arise why such mass killings keep happening in the country.

A huge explosion rocked a gas plant in central China yesterday, causing many injuries and shattering windows and doors of buildings in

An elderly South Korean man died yesterday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn.

China’s Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday under controlled conditions, completing the latest round of experiments in Beijing’s ambitious space programme.

A huge explosion rocks a gas plant in central China, killing at least two people and injuring another 18, state media has said.

A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media says after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades.

The government is attempting to build a framework to enable elderly people and others to use low-speed electric vehicles to go shopping, to the hospital and elsewhere.

Southeast Asia’s drug gangs are making over $60 billion a year pumping out record amounts of methamphetamine, then laundering the profits through the region’s mushrooming number of casinos, a UN study showed yesterday.

Twelve people are killed and more than 80 wounded when Taliban fighters detonated two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in the Afghan city of Kandahar, police and medical officials and the Taliban said.

In a significant legal and diplomatic victory for India, the International Court of Justice rules that Pakistan must review the death sentence for a former Indian navy officer who has been handed the punishment by a Pakistani military court for alleged espionage and terrorism.

The moratorium on migrant workers from Bangladesh is expected to be lifted next month the soonest, says Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared he will never be tried by an international court for mass killings in his war on drugs, and vowed no let-up in a crackdown that he said he was winning and would see through “to the very end”.

Heavy monsoon rains across South Asia claim more lives, with the death toll passing 200 as authorities tried to reach stranded villagers cut off by surging floodwaters.

Hundreds of people demonstrates in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, in support of proposed constitutional amendments that would reduce the power of the military.

Credit cards belonging to Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak were used to spend over $800,000 in one day at a luxury jeweller

North Korea yesterday said looming US-South Korea military drills could impact the proposed resumption of nuclear talks between

From today, prospective employers in South Korea cannot ask job seekers for information unrelated to the positions they are being hired