Rescuers bowed their heads and ships' hooters blared in tribute to the victims of Communist China's worst shipping disaster yesterday, as relatives of the 431 dead and 11 still

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by her neighbour in Bhangamura area under Sadar upazila of Bandarban district on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upholds the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.

Brig RP Singh, VSM (retd), an Indian war veteran who participated in the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, has written an open letter to the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh.

The plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar has been in the spotlight last month after thousands of migrants have been left stranded at sea but not all the images being shared online are what they seem to be.

Eight of the 10 men supposedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually

The Eastern Star is upright once again, looking almost normal with its bottom resting on the water and its deck and cabins clear above it.

A team of lawyers representing key human-trafficking suspect Thai army officer Lt-General Manas Khongpaen is planning to make a legal

Thailand's junta leader yesterday said government officials involved in the illicit trade in migrants would not be spared and vowed to

Myanmar's opposition leader and democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China for the first time next week, Beijing and her party

Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it

Malaysian authorities raced yesterday to try to reach 137 people, some of them injured, who were stranded atop the popular climbing

Sri Lanka's opposition said yesterday it has filed a motion of no confidence in the country's new prime minister, a move likely to hasten

Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have been acquitted.

Rescuers yesterday started cutting through the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, state media said, in a desperate effort to find

Most residents of Tokyo's pulsing Shinjuku ward, home to the busiest railway station in the world, are of the Homo sapiens variety.

American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.

Duong was 18 and looking forward to seeing a new place and meeting new people when she set out with her aunt Mai and Mai’s boyfriend Lap to see his parents in Vinh Phuc Province. For a Dao minority girl from the rural district of Yen Binh in Yen Bai Province, it was like traveling into another country, and she was excited.

On their way out of Thailand, several workers boarded fishery trawlers to go offshore for fishing in the Indonesian sea, but they returned as trafficked entities. The workers were rescued by Thai authorities and brought home on a Royal Thai Air Force C-130 aircraft.

“My arms and legs were tied in such a way that it was impossible for me even to change sides without help,” said Jewel, who was abducted and held captive by human traffickers in November last year.