Widely criticised for her stance over Rohingya refugee crisis, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi now tells her fellow Southeast Asian leaders that her country will take back Rohingya refugees after it signs an agreement with its neighbour Bangladesh.

Myanmar's army releases a report denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

China and Vietnam agreed yesterday to avoid conflicts in the hotly contested South China Sea, as a new pathway to dialogue on easing tensions was opened with other Southeast Asian nations.

A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side yesterday while defecting to South Korea at the border

Angry parents accused Delhi authorities yesterday of "playing with children's health" as schools reopened despite a

A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Mass graves containing at least 400 suspected Islamic State group victims have been found near the former jihadist bastion of Hawija in northern Iraq, the regional governor says.

North Korea said yesterday that US President Donald Trump's first trip to Asia showed he was a "destroyer" and he had begged

Papua New Guinea began dismantling a shuttered Australian-run immigration detention centre yesterday and warned it will use force

An elaborate Javanese wedding tradition is held after newlyweds Kahiyang Ayu and Bobby Afif Nasution tied the knot.

New Zealand was mourning the loss of the nation's "First Cat" yesterday after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's pet puss Paddles was run

Myanmar says that the UN Security Council's statement on the Rohingya refugee crisis can “seriously harm” its talks with Bangladesh over repatriating more than 600,000 people who have fled there to escape a Myanmar military crackdown.

A public health emergency was declared as choking smog blanketed New Delhi yesterday, with authorities ordering

With US President Donald Trump in Japan and soon to arrive here with the North Korean nuclear and missile threat

The time for "strategic patience" with North Korea is over, US President Donald Trump warned yesterday, after

The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested suspected IS terrorist Abu Zaid from the Mumbai Airport,

Five people have been killed and over 3,000 evacuated after a storm triggered serious flooding yesterday in Malaysia's

At Vietnam's Old Flames market, curious customers peruse love letters and pick through perfumes, candles and

The only certain way to locate and secure all North Korea's nuclear weapons sites would be via a US ground invasion,

An AI character was made an official resident of a busy central Tokyo district yesterday, with the virtual newcomer