Strolling in narrow alleys near Taipei’s famous Huaxi Street Night Market, it is not difficult to spot lone girls here and there. It just takes a knowing look before they initiate an approach to solicit your business. Let her lead the way and you arrive at a brothel, where girls are called in one by one for your choosing.

A young woman in Mymensingh stages hunger strike to win back her husband who refused to accept her as wife even after one and half years of their marriage.

Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader expresses hopes that works for the Motor Vehicle Agreement among the four South Asian countries – Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal – will begin next January.

More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy

Japan's parliamentary session opened yesterday with an unusual apology from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his heckling.

The United States yesterday called for an immediate end to China's intensifying reclamation works in the South China Sea and vowed to

India's brutal weeks-long heatwave has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities said yesterday, as day temperatures decreased at

Unidentified gunmen stormed two passenger coaches in southwest Pakistan and killed at least 21 people, officials said yesterday.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast yesterday, geologists said, shaking buildings in Tokyo and setting off car

The United States yesterday said that China had placed mobile artillery weapons systems on a reclaimed island in the disputed South

Police arrest three listed human traffickers from Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in view of the worldwide concern over human trafficking.

China yesterday accused the United States of threatening to sow "chaos" in the Asia-Pacific region by inciting countries whose territorial claims in the South China Sea clash with those of Beijing.

The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, says Malaysia's deputy home minister.

Chinese electronics giant Lenovo has unveiled a phone with a built-in laser projector that can be used to display a virtual keyboard or display.

Malaysia detains 12 policemen suspected of human trafficking, two of whom are said to be connected to recently discovered jungle graves.

Thai police are investigating whether fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra committed royal defamation in a recent interview, authorities said yesterday as they announced his passports had been revoked.

South Korea's Hyundai has become the first carmaker to offer Google's Android Auto system in its Sonata model.

Heatwave conditions continue to sweep India where more than 1,100 people have died in the past week, officials say.

China yesterday said it would project its military power further beyond its sea borders and more assertively in the air, defending the construction of artificial islands which sparked concern in Washington.

A farmer was killed by lightning at Barobari village in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as