Japan issued a new protest to Beijing yesterday after Chinese coastguard ships and about 230 fishing vessels sailed

Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party, has undergone shoulder surgery at a New Delhi hospital after

The bodies of seventeen people who died when a road bridge between Mumbai and Goa collapsed have been recovered

An undiagnosed disease has killed more than 30 children in a remote part of Myanmar, officials said yesterday, with

China is to set up an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, state media said yesterday,

Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" was sworn in as Nepal's new Prime Minister yesterday, a day after being elected by

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday called for tough action against terrorism and countries supporting it,

India's Congress President Sonia Gandhi's condition is "stable" and she is recovering at the Army's Research and

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday picked a close confidante with staunchly nationalist views as the new

North Korea fired a ballistic missile directly into Japanese-controlled waters for the first time yesterday, drawing an

Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian

A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan's central Punjab province, police said yesterday,

Floods triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains have claimed more than 50 lives in eastern India this week, the country's home minister and reports said yesterday, with millions of people affected by surging waters.

An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.

Myanmar's most heavily armed ethnic group yesterday held "positive" talks with the country's de facto leader Aung San

Indonesia executed four convicted drug traffickers, including three Nigerians, early yesterday as it pushed ahead with

China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China's Defence Ministry said

At least 58 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal, the government said

A former prime minister whose party supported Thailand's last coup lambasted the junta's new constitution yesterday

Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence