Samsung Electronics' ailing chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was yesterday named by South Korean police as a suspect in an 8.2 billion won ($7.5

South Korean police say Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee was suspected of evading tax for 8.2 billion won ($7.5 million), and of using bank accounts held by employees that held 400 billion won, Yonhap News Agency says.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced one person to death and five others to life imprisonment for lynching a student accused of

When North Korea's chef de mission at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South visited an athletes' village fitness centre he made a

Chinese police are sporting high-tech sunglasses that can spot suspects in a crowded train station, the newest use of facial recognition

At least 33 people have tested positive for HIV in Bangarmau town of Uttar Pradesh after an unqualified medical practitioner injected some of them with an infected syringe, a government official says.

Rescuers comb through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 145 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the popular Taiwanese tourist city of Hualien overnight.

China's continued reclamation in the South China Sea has eroded trust among claimants and could raise regional tensions, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said yesterday.

North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit US territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a US envoy said yesterday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck just to the northeast of the city of Hualien in Taiwan tonight, the US Geological Survey says, causing a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway, the government says.

Unidentified gunmen yesterday fired multiple shots at two Chinese nationals and injured one of them critically in a targeted attack in a

North Korea's ceremonial leader will make an unprecedented visit to South Korea this week, officials said yesterday, as hopes grow for

A Pashto theatre actress was shot dead by three gunmen after she refused to go with them for a private event in Pakistan's Khyber

Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen

China has criticised suggestions by the US government that it could be a potential nuclear adversary, accusing the Trump

North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a

Maldivian authorities yesterday announced an indefinite postponement of parliament as President Abdulla Yameen's regime resisted

India-Asean trade relations have been growing steadily, with Asean being India’s fourth largest trading partner. Both sides have set a target of at least US$200 billion in two-way trade by 2022 compared to US$ 71 billion in 2016-17.

Myanmar’s government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military with help from Buddhist neighbors, saying that only “terrorists” were killed and they were “carefully buried.”

Worried about militants sneaking into a restive Chinese region from war-torn Afghanistan, Beijing is in talks with Kabul over the