North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday attended the first concert in Pyongyang for over a decade by South Korean entertainers, including a K-pop girlband, the latest gesture of reconciliation before a rare inter-Korean summit.

A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

India's most popular tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, announces that visits will be capped at three hours.

A four-story rickety hotel building collapses in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another three, police says.

A young farmer from India's lowest Dalit community has been beaten to death for owning a horse, which is seen as a symbol of power and wealth,

India and Pakistan have agreed to resolve the issue of recent incidents of harassment of diplomats and non-diplomatic staff at their

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled

A fire on board a bus in western Thailand kills 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, police says.

Malaysia’s central bank says it detected and foiled an attempted cyber attack and efforts to transfer funds without authorisation using falsified SWIFT messages.

Thanks no doubt to the fact that Easter falls during the same period as this year's cherry blossom season, Tokyo has topped a list of the most popular Easter destinations among Asia-Pacific travelers for 2018.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday reduced the responsibilities of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as a power

Myanmar's parliament yesterday elected a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president, allowing her to maintain a

New Zealand said yesterday it would like to expel Russian spies in retaliation for allegedly poisoning an ex-agent in Britain -- only it

A train believed to be carrying a senior North Korean delegation left the Chinese capital yesterday following a dramatic whirlwind visit

As the first transgender news anchor in Pakistan, Marvia Malik is proud to be at the forefront of changing attitudes in her country but she says there is a long way to go.

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, says in an interview.

North Korea yesterday called on the United States to understand its position and adopt a “serious attitude” to contribute to

Police and politicians backed by the country's former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday vowed to press on with his controversial move to amend Japan's pacifist constitution,

North Korea yesterday agreed to hold high-level talks with Seoul next week to discuss logistics for a rare inter-Korean summit, the