Indonesian police spokesperson says an alert has been issued throughout the country following Islamist State attack on Jakarta.

A bus taking passengers to a ski resort in central Japan veers off a mountain road, killing 14 people and injuring 27.

A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam's teachings, according to a new poll.

South Korea said yesterday that further US "strategic assets" might be deployed to the Korean peninsula, following a flyover by a US B-52 bomber in response

Beijing said yesterday it did not need to notify Vietnam about flights to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Hanoi complained to a UN aviation body

The United States and its two main military allies in Asia, South Korea and Japan, pledged a combined push to secure a comprehensive, hard-hitting international response to North Korea's latest nuclear test. The leaders of the three countries, who have long sought to project a united front against the North Korean nuclear threat, spoke by phone a day after Pyongyang's shock announcement that it had tested its first hydrogen bomb.

Eleven miners were found dead yesterday after a Chinese coal mine caved in, state media reported, the latest fatal industrial accident in the country where work safety standards are poorly enforced.

Expressing concern at the recent nuclear tests carried out by the North Korea, Bangladesh urges the country to refrain from any activity which can potentially escalate the situation.

Beijing has rejected a protest from Vietnam after a Chinese plane landed on a contested reef in the South China Sea, saying the operation took place within Chinese territory.

A huge fire rips through a luxury Dubai hotel Thursday night, injuring 16 people, just a few hours before the emirate celebrated the new year with a spectacular fireworks display nearby.

The first-ever national contest for cremation workers cuts to the heart of Chinese ideas about death, land use and a desire to instill national pride in a stigmatised vocation.

The first hotline between China and Taiwan was launched yesterday, in a move designed to build ties between the two sides following a historic summit

Eight people were found alive in a Chinese gypsum mine yesterday, state media said, five days after it collapsed in an accident that reportedly prompted its

A group of street children is bound by a shared passion to bring out Balaknama (Voice of Children), an eight-page quarterly newspaper which focuses on children living and working on the streets.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands in Pakistan on a surprise visit in which he will meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.

The death toll from a ferry disaster in central Indonesia rises to 63 with a handful of people still missing as the search and rescue operation winds down, an official says.

More than 100 million people in China have been warned to stay indoors after at least 10 Chinese cities issued red alerts for smog, state media reported yesterday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet yesterday approved Japan's biggest ever annual defence budget, as the country bolsters its military amid territorial rows and concerns over China's expanding naval reach.

A local Taliban commander and 50 fighters have been killed in overnight fighting in the Sangin district of Helmand province, Afghan officials say.

A suicide vehicle bomb attack on a patrol near a base at Bagram in eastern Afghanistan kills six foreign soldiers and injured three, Nato says.