China's plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely has sparked social media opposition, drawing

Cambodia's ruling party swept controversial Senate elections yesterday, early results suggest, in a vote derided as a "farce" by critics as it proceeded without a viable opposition.

A blacklisted North Korean general arrives in the South for the Winter Olympics closing ceremony, which will also be attended by US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka.

The entire Bollywood and television industry is shocked by the news of Sridevi’s sudden demise.

A newly married man and his grandmother are killed in India when a wedding gift they were opening exploded.

Bollywood actress Sridevi, whose acting prowess and beguiling eyes helped her rule Bollywood in 1980s, died of cardiac arrest in Dubai at the age of 54 plunging the Indian cinema industry into mourning.

Regional leaders launched construction work on the Afghan section of an $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will link the energy-rich Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves but has been heavily dependent on gas exports to China after Russia cut back gas imports in the past few years.

US Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un's sister, while in South

Pakistan's Supreme Court orders that ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party he founded, six months after the court removed him as premier.

Eleven Chinese warships sailed into the East Indian Ocean this month, a Chinese news portal said, amid a constitutional crisis in the

Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry is set to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper to mark its 350th anniversary in 2041.

Rescuers yesterday discovered nine more bodies beneath the ruins of a Indian hotel, bringing the known death toll from an explosion

Malaysia has apologised after a government ad in Chinese-language newspapers featuring a picture of a barking rooster to mark the

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, transgenders will be part of a team of boy scouts being sent to Saudi Arabia to serve as

Streets around Lhasa's fire-hit Jokhang temple, one of the most sacred sites for Tibetan Buddhism, were reopened to pilgrims yesterday

Indian investigators have arrested three people who allegedly helped a billionaire jeweller obtain fake documents for overseas loans in

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in yesterday said it was too early to think about a summit with North Korea despite the Olympic-

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday agreed to step up efforts to bring stability to war-

A Pakistani court yesterday handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in a case that

A Japanese scientist says his team has cracked open a method to improve the production of carbon-free energy -- by using proteins taken from egg white.