China sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher" to eight years in prison Tuesday, one of the

The controversial trial of staff from Turkey's main opposition newspaper accused of terror links resumed yesterday, in

Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast yesterday as

China has "reasonably" expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there

Pakistan yesterday allowed the wife and mother of an Indian man convicted of spying to visit him in Islamabad, eight

China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules and the

China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules and the vast majority of people support government efforts to clean up cyberspace, state news agency Xinhua says.

Officers who provide security protection to the Singaporean president and other senior political leaders have been reminded to make sure their security convoys comply with traffic rules, without compromising the safety and security of the VIPs they are escorting.

China has punished 8,123 people for committing fiscal violations after an audit of how the government's 2016 central budget was spent

At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in

An average citizen in Bangladesh and Indonesia drinks hardly a bottle of wine in a year. Whereas, the lowest alcohol consumption is reported in Pakistan at nearly 0, and people in South Korea are the most prolific drinkers in Asia.

Australia has seized more than Aus$1.0 billion of methamphetamine in its biggest ever bust of the highly-addictive drug, police said

Chinese jets yesterday conducted drills near Taiwan's airspace for the sixth time this month, as relations between the

A Singapore civil servant was yesterday fined but escaped jail for leaking confidential information to a journalist, a

A spokesman for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday he had been informed that the police had almost

India yesterday announced it would host China for another round of talks on long-running border disputes, the first

Fire tore through a sweet shop in the Indian city of Mumbai before dawn yesterday, sparking a building collapse which

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera will return to power as Chile's president next year, according to virtually complete results

Myanmar's civilian President Htin Kyaw, a close ally of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has authorised the

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares victory for his party in two state elections, including a closely-fought race in his stronghold of Gujarat where the charismatic leader fronted the campaign.