Fujifilm Corp. announced on its website that it will end sales of black-and-white film and photographic printing paper.

Giving a major boost to connectivity, India and Nepal yesterday agreed to develop inland waterways between them connecting Nepal to

India has set in motion the process to acquire a fleet of around 110 fighter jets in what is billed to be one of the world's biggest

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan left prison yesterday after being granted bail so he can contest a five-year jail sentence imposed for

Amit Shah, President of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has sparked a row by likening the attempts of opposition parties to come

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says that "genocide" was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too.

China warned yesterday it would fight back "at any cost" with fresh trade measures if the United States continues on its path of

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the dissolution of parliament yesterday, paving the way for a general election

South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye is jailed for 24 years for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country's first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule.

Malaysian authorities yesterday deregistered the party of veteran former leader Mahathir Mohamad, who is trying to unseat scandal-hit

The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who has embarked on a 100-kilometre (60-mile) march to highlight his plight

The Taliban has vowed to "take serious revenge" after an Afghan airstrike in an area controlled by the militant group killed or

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe defeated a no-confidence motion in parliament late Wednesday but political

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks in Beijing last week that he agreed to return to six-

The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic

Thai authorities have seized a massive methamphetamine haul worth almost $38 million near the Laotian border, officials said yesterday, highlighting the kingdom's role as a pipeline for drugs flooding through Southeast Asia. Early yesterday authorities found some 788 kilogrammes of crystal meth -- a high-purity form of the stimulant -- in an abandoned pick-up truck in northern Chiang Rai province.

China appreciates North Korea's "important efforts" to ease tension on the Korean peninsula, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the North's foreign minister yesterday, hours after he called on all sides to stay focused on talks.

Thailand makes one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht ($22.42 million) worth of the drug, police say, as the United Nations warns Southeast Asia is being flooded with illegal drugs from the "Golden Triangle" region.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials say.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority says.