Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan took to Twitter yesterday to express his annoyance at being detained by US

Japan and the Philippines joined forces yesterday to call on China to observe the rule of law in resolving maritime

Pakistan yesterday approved a controversial cybercrime bill the government says will safeguard citizens against

A pipeline explosion at a power station in China killed at least 21 people and injured five more yesterday, the official

An angry mob in southern India attacked two low-caste cousins who they suspected of slaughtering a cow, police said

Sri Lanka yesterday announced plans to replace its ageing jet fighters to better defend its maritime borders including

A gang of robbers cut a hole in the roof of a train travelling through southern India and stole more than $750,000 in cash,

Thailand's junta chief yesterday urged people in a speech to shelve their differences after voters approved a new

Afghan forces, backed by the United States, have killed an estimated 300 Islamic State fighters in an operation

Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers

Around a giant screen showing the Olympics in a central New Delhi park, young Indians chat, take selfies or snooze in the late afternoon heat, glancing only occasionally at the heroic sporting feats on display.

Song Youzhou, designer of the tall, lane-straddling bus known as batie, which allows cars to pass beneath, said the bus can run smoothly despite doubts people have raised.

Indian Olympic Association's goodwill ambassador Salman Khan forgets the name of Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian to qualify for the vault event at the Rio Olympics.

Myanmar will begin long-planned talks with armed ethnic groups on august 31, as the government's de facto leader

Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, the country's junta chief confirmed Tuesday, his first comments since

The Japanese city of Nagasaki yesterday marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb. A bell tolled as thousands of people,

Pakistan's lawyers boycotted courts and staged protests nationwide yesterday after a horrific suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital which

India yesterday summoned Pakistan's high commissioner in New Delhi to protest against what it said was the continued

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito may be heir to one of the world's oldest monarchies, but he is not shy about knocking the institution he represents or his country's warring past.

Pellet guns have no place in law enforcement and should be banned immediately, human rights group Amnesty International India has said, following the death of a third person owing to injuries inflicted by the weapons in Indian-administered Kashmir.