South Korea's scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye yesterday said she would accept the result of a looming and possibly lengthy

The European Union welcomes Myanmar government’s move to establish an inquiry commission into the recent violence in Rakhine state.

Popular New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his shock resignation yesterday, saying he was never a career

The life of the leader of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu hang in the balance after she went into cardiac arrest, drawing large crowds to the hospital where doctors were fighting to save the hugely popular former actress.

Austrians returned to the polls yesterday in a bitterly fought election re-run which could see the European Union's first far-right

Chinese state media said yesterday that US President-elect Donald Trump's "inexperience" led him to accept a phone call from

The Philippine government wants Bangladesh to share the findings of its investigation into how unknown hackers pulled off one of the world's largest cyber bank heists, to help speed up recovery of the stolen funds.

Aung San Suu Kyi must step in to prevent the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Malaysia's prime minister said as he mocked the Nobel laureate for her inaction.

Singapore is seen as a safer investment destination in turbulent world. Mega office deals helped drive foreign investment in local real estate to its highest level since 2007.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum receives a letter of thanks from US President Barack Obama, who became in May the first sitting US president to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima.

At least 38 people were killed in two separate Chinese coal mine blasts this week, according to death tolls reported by state

Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched in Seoul for the sixth-straight week yesterday to demand the ouster and arrest

There is little doubt that the questionable homegrown commission is simply a tool to temporarily quell the backlash that Suu Kyi is facing as a result of her silence and inaction on the army crackdown in the northwest, resulting in at least 86 deaths and 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks with the president of Taiwan, a move that will be sure to anger China.

China's top court yesterday cleared a man executed 21 years ago for murder -- more than a decade after another man confessed

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conducted a large-scale artillery drill simulating an attack on the South Korean capital and

More than 200,000 Indonesian Muslims pray in unison and chant Koranic verses in the second major demonstration against Jakarta's Christian governor, as conservative groups push for his arrest for allegedly insulting Islam.

A new body set up by Myanmar's government to investigate allegations of rights abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine lacks credibility, activists said Friday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan began a visit to the troubled state.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously imposed its toughest ever sanctions on North Korea, placing a

Malaysia's national soccer team has cancelled two friendly under-22 matches with Myanmar, in protest against the Southeast Asian nation's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a team spokesman said on Thursday.