A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight operating from Singapore to Delhi experienced a “hydraulic system issue” prior to landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Thursday (May 9) he aims to have a slimmer government in his second term to reduce inefficiencies and accelerate...

A US official wounded in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday suicide bombings has died in a hospital in Singapore, raising to 258 the total number killed,...

The world consumed 10 per cent more alcohol per adult in 2017 than in 1990, due in large part to heavier and more widespread drinking...

Nepal's Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Tuesday said his government was ready to hold talks with the parties demanding constitutional amendment as he...

A blast outside Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s Lahore on Wednesday killed at least four and wounded several others.The blast took place close to the Data...

The ex-wife of an Indian-origin neurologist in Singapore has been granted Singapore dollars 25 million  in assets, child support and spousal support by a British...

All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or killed, acting police chief Chandana Wickramaratne said...

Iran will restart part of its halted nuclear programme in response to the US withdrawal from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal but does not itself...

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of...

Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on Tuesday (May 7) months after being sentenced to seven years in jail on convictions...

A science experiment at a secondary school in Bayan Lepas went wrong on Monday (May 6), causing 13 students to suffer from breathing difficulties.A statement...

A Hong Kong bookseller who was detained by China is seeking refuge in Taiwan, saying his home city will no longer be safe when new...

North Korea on Sunday denounced South Korea and the United States joint military exercise, saying it "destroys peace and stability in the Korean peninsula".Uriminzokkiri, state-owned...

The Sri Lankan authorities reimposed a curfew on the western coastal town of Negombo on Sunday where jihadists attacked a church during a series of...

India, close on the heels of getting Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar blacklisted, has given a clarion call at the UN for strengthening efforts to...

North Korea said Sunday it had tested long-range multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons, a day after Pyongyang appeared to have launched its first...

Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar consented to handing over his land in Bukit Chagar to the Malaysian government for the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS)...

Sri Lanka's US$4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that...

It had been a decade since he was released from prison. A reformed John Sreang Ly was living freely and had put his conviction for...

Cyclone Fani has made landfall on India's eastern coast as a grade 5 storm, lashing the emptied beaches with rain and wind gusting up to...

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Friday said that Nepal is planning to start construction of railways linking Kathmandu with India and China within two years."The...

The nauseating smell of death that infested the streets around Colombo's morgue after Sri Lanka's devastating Easter attacks has finally dispersed.But forensic pathologists are still...

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn announced on Wednesday (May 1) that he had married his consort, General Suthida Vajiralongkorn, and named her Queen Suthida.The announcement, carried...

India deployed emergency personnel on Wednesday (May 1) and ordered the navy on standby as it braced for an extremely severe cyclonic storm barrelling towards...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all US forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the US government...

President Xi Jinping appealed to China's youth on Tuesday (Apr 30) to love the country and dedicate themselves to the Communist Party, warning on the...

An Indian is among the 13 foreign nationals arrested by police here for violating Sri Lankan immigration laws during their stay in the country, police...

The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group claimed to appear for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has suspended police chief Pujith Jayasundara, his office announced on Monday after the defiant Inspector General refused to quit following...

Sirisena said he was using emergency powers to ban any form of face covering in public. The restriction will take effect from Monday, his office...

Sri Lankan forces have killed or arrested most of the radical Islamists linked to the Easter suicide bombings and the country is ready to return...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is considering reshuffling his cabinet before he is sworn in for a second five-year term in October, according to comments he...

Only the people can change the prime minister through the ballot box, Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday (Apr 28), in what appeared to be...

Every year, over 100 newborns are found abandoned in rivers, mosques, toilets and rubbish dumps in Malaysia. More than 60 per cent of them end...

Traders travel freely through the bustling Khorgos special economic zone that straddles the Kazakhstan-China border, but signs on the Chinese side bear a blunt warning...

Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who is facing high treason case, is likely to return to the country on May 1, his lawyer said...

North and South Korea Saturday struck different notes as they marked the first anniversary of a summit between their leaders that fuelled a whirlwind of...

Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Friday to bat away concerns about his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, saying his global infrastructure project will have “zero...

Six children and three women were among 15 people killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up during a shootout with security forces in Sri Lanka's...

Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no...

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife, Masako, represent a lot of firsts for an imperial couple: university-educated, multilingual and with years of experience living...

Sri Lanka deployed thousands of additional troops countrywide overnight to help police hunt for suspects in the Easter Sunday suicide blasts that killed nearly 360...

A water treatment plant at Simpang Renggam, near Ayer Hitam in Johor was shut down on Tuesday (Apr 23) due to high ammonia content readings,...

A new bomb was found in downtown area of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, after multiple blasts shook the country on Sunday.According...

Police say the death toll in the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka has risen to 359 and more suspects have been arrested.Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara...

Sri Lanka's worst terror attack targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday was carried out by local Islamic extremists in retaliation for the mosque...

China showed off the first of its new generation of guided missile destroyers on Tuesday as President Xi Jinping reviewed a major naval parade through...

Myanmar’s top court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act, in...

Dozens are feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar's Kachin state engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said Tuesday, the latest...

New Johor state executive councillor Tosrin Jarvanthi has candidly admitted that his highest educational qualification is primary six, adding that this has never been a...

Johor’s new state executive council line-up will have its hands full dealing with two urgent issues – river pollution and the congestion at the Causeway...

 A "big-hearted" US technician who was visiting Sri Lanka for work was among the hundreds killed in the Easter attacks, his employer said Monday.Dieter Kowalski,...

The Sri Lankan government never expected the Easter Sunday bombings of such magnitude, Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando said on Tuesday and asserted that it would...

A Japanese court on Friday ruled that Carlos Ghosn will remain in detention until April 22, as prosecutors grill the former Nissan boss over allegations...

A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning and sending panicked residents running from...

At least 20 people — including two children, a Frontier Corps official and eight members of the Shia Hazara community — were killed on Friday...

As India gears up for its general election, one must not lose sight of the sheer size of the exercise, which has been described as...

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday (local time) underlined that the only way for India and Pakistan to move forward is through talks.Qureshi...

A Japanese air force F-35 stealth fighter crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a night training flight and parts of the jet were recovered, the...

South Korea's constitutional court is to rule Thursday (Apr 11) on the legality of a decades-old abortion ban that campaigners say endangers women, in what...

A Hong Kong court found leaders of the 2014 “Occupy” civil disobedience movement guilty on Tuesday of public nuisance charges during the mass protests, in...

India’s ruling party promised cheap sanitary pads, workplace creches and quotas to get more women into Parliament on Monday, seeking to woo female voters ahead...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that leaders in India and Israel are defying the international laws and showcasing moral bankruptcy to win elections...

China's top economic planning body has proposed new rules that would see the closure of all local cryptocurrency mining facilities if enacted ? a move...

The Catholic Church in Japan said on Tuesday (Apr 9) it will launch an internal probe into claims of sexual abuse against children by its...

The Pakistan Army on Monday said India has failed to provide any evidence of downing a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet during the February 27 aerial...

A Hong Kong court found leaders of the 2014 "Occupy" civil disobedience movement guilty on Tuesday (Apr 9) of public nuisance charges during the mass...

A fire broke out at Pakistan Prime Minister’s Secretariat’s sixth floor on Monday which was extinguished as five fire brigades rushed to the building while...

A bus carrying workers plunged into a drain near the MASKargo area in Sepang on Sunday (Apr 7) night, killing eleven people on board.The crash...

As sea waters slowly rose around his temple and his neighbours fled inland, Thai abbot Somnuek Atipanyo refused to budge and is today a symbol...

While talks are rife that Johor Chief Minister Osman Sapian will be replaced, his office on Sunday (Apr 7) dismissed rumours that he is meeting...

A lawyer for Nissan former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was taken back into custody last week, has outlined the conditions for his initial release on...

The Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Iskandar thanked the Malaysian government on Sunday (Apr 7) for withdrawing from the Rome Statute."I thank the Malaysian government for...

Eastern Libyan troops commanded by Khalifa Haftar said on Friday they had advanced into the southern outskirts of the capital Tripoli in a dangerous thrust...

The exiled former leader of the Maldives has led his party to a landslide victory only five months after returning to the country, preliminary results...

Twice as many foreigners as last year gathered in Pyongyang on Sunday (Apr 7) for the city's annual marathon, tour firms said, as reduced tensions...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday accused the BJP of "whipping up war hysteria", saying its false claim of downing a Pakistani F-16 has...

Singapore has withdrawn the Instrument Landing System (ILS) procedures for Seletar Airport while Malaysia has indefinitely suspended its permanent restricted area over Pasir Gudang, both...

Rian Ernest Tanudjaja says he’s just a “regular guy”.“I just ordered my dinner through Go-Jek while taking care of my child. I don’t have any...

Pakistan on Friday said that India’s demand for consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav is not appropriate at this point as the case is pending in...

Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday (Apr 5) that “unresolved” bilateral issues will be discussed in a “friendly manner”, when he meets Prime...

Pakistan military Friday called on India to "speak the truth" about the "actual losses" in an aerial dogfight between the nuclear-armed neighbours, after a leading...

When India’s Election Commission announced last month that its code of conduct would have to be followed by social media companies as well as political...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (Apr 3) criticised new Islamic sharia laws in Brunei that allow for death by stoning for adultery and gay...

"Mama, just killed a man," sings Indonesian President Joko Widodo during a recent ride in a local YouTube celebrity's car while Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody plays...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared in court Wednesday for the start of his corruption trial, exactly 10 years after he was first elected...

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will on Thursday (Apr 4) table a motion in parliament to change the chairman of the bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC),...

Eyeing India's multi-billion dollar fighter jet market, Boeing has offered to build a 21st century aerospace ecosystem in India for co-developing F/A-18 Super Hornet upgrades...

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday formed an independent five-member commission to probe the alleged abduction, forced conversion and marriage of two teenage Hindu girls...

Singapore submitted wide-ranging fake news legislation in Parliament on Monday, stoking fears from internet firms and human rights groups that it may give the government...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court Monday directed the trial court to announce verdict in high treason case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf if he does not...

The battered body of 16-year-old servant Uzma Bibi was found dumped in a canal and her wealthy employer charged with murder, the latest case highlighting...

A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader's half-brother will walk free in May after pleading guilty to a lesser charge, her lawyer...

Sri Lankan police on Monday (Apr 1) destroyed nearly 800kg of cocaine in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena, who has called for the death...

The head of NASA on Monday (Apr 1) branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of...

A majority of 39 northern Chinese cities have failed to meet anti-pollution targets over the six-months to end-March, a Reuters study of official data showed,...

Taipei hit out at China on Sunday (Mar 31) for what it said was a "reckless and provocative" incursion by two fighter jets across a...

Authorities in southeast China have ordered the demolition of hundreds of illegally built tombs as President Xi Jinping's campaign to combat illicit and environmentally harmful...

At least 25 people have been killed and hundreds injured after stormy weather hit southern Nepal, destroying houses, uprooting trees and toppling electricity poles, officials...

China will add fentanyl-related substances to a supplementary list of controlled narcotic drugs from May 1, the government said on Monday (Apr 1).The statement was...

Japan's outgoing Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko dramatically modernised the tradition-bound monarchy, bringing themselves closer to the public and boosting popular support for the household.Akihito...

Bangladesh security forces stopped 29 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said Saturday (Mar 30), the latest...

A break-in at the North Korean embassy in Spain last month was "a grave terrorist attack", a representative from North Korea's foreign ministry said on...

Brunei has defended its right to implement Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality against growing global criticism.Brunei, a Muslim-majority...

Militants fired five rockets from Gaza into Israel early Sunday, the Israeli military said, following a day of Palestinian mass protests along the Israel-Gaza perimeter...

Six baby elephants separated from their parents and trapped in a muddy pit for days have been rescued by park rangers in rural Thailand, officials...

Hong Kong's plans to approve extraditions to the mainland have sparked alarm within the city's business and legal communities who fear it will hammer the...

US President Donald Trump on Friday (Mar 30) reaffirmed that he would stop new sanctions on North Korea, saying the country was suffering and he...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and world-famous K-pop band BTS were nominated for TIME magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the...

Shin Jang-jin's shop in Incheon offers seemingly innocuous household items, from pens and lighters to watches and smoke detectors, but with a secret feature -...

A family of five, including a six-year-old boy, died on Thursday morning (Mar 28) after their car crashed into an express bus along the Kuala...

With the web of US sanctions tightening, Iran faces a host of challenges as it looks to an isolated port in the country's far southeast...

A dissident group accused of breaking into North Korea's embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (Mar 28) it was temporarily suspending operations, after a Spanish...

The run-up to Thailand’s weekend vote was “heavily tilted” to benefit a party close to the ruling military junta, an Asian election monitor said on...

The United States said on Tuesday (Mar 26) that it saw "positive signs" of a return to democracy in Thailand but urged a transparent probe...

The bodies of two Bangladeshis killed in the Christchurch mosques shooting earlier this month have been returned home to their grieving families, relatives said late...

In a relief to Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the jailed former prime minister for six weeks on medical grounds.Sharif,...

Philippine policewoman Ruby Buena's introduction to one of the oldest communist insurgencies in the world was a roadside bomb blast followed seconds later by an...

A 23-year-old Malaysian university student was found dead in a lake in London's Hyde Park on Monday (Mar 26). Muhammad Hafiz's body was recovered from the...

A party linked to Thailand’s military led the popular vote after most ballots had been counted from Sunday’s general election, the country’s first since a...

A convoy of dozens of South Korean officials left for an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea on Monday (Mar 25) in a bid to...

A Singaporean and two Malaysians were charged on Sunday (Mar 24) over the illegal dumping of chemicals into Sungai Kim Kim in Pasir Gudang, local...

Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes...

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday (Mar 25) she will travel to China at the end of the week for a meeting...

Indonesia's capital will inaugurate its first mass rapid transit system on Sunday (Mar 24), a US$1.1 billion project seen as crucial to tackling some of...

Water shortage is expected in six Malaysian states due to the extreme hot weather, said Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Xavier Jayakumar on Saturday...

U.S.-backed forces in Syria announced Saturday they have liberated the last pocket of territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...

The death toll in a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 64 Saturday (Mar 23) but rescuers found a survivor among more than two...

Pakistan's President Arif Alvi on Saturday said that his country wants to “resolve all issues” with India through a comprehensive dialogue, but added that this...

The death toll climbed to 64 in one of the worst industrial accidents of China in recent times which knocked down buildings, tossed children into...

 An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 62 people, state media said late on Friday, with 34 people critically injured and...

Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments on Friday (Mar 22) to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 62 people...

All 111 schools in the Pasir Gudang area closed following the Sungai Kim Kim chemical waste pollution incident, will reopen on Mar 31, said Johor...

The speaker of Kazakhstan's parliament was sworn in as interim president on Wednesday, a day after longtime leader Nursultan Nazarbayev abruptly resigned.Nazarbayev surprised many by...

North Korea's illicit and highly sophisticated efforts to circumvent UN sanctions may have sought to cushion their impact, but they offer no long-term solution to...

Walls draped in lush vertical gardens and air filtered through purifiers insulate diners at a swanky New Delhi food court from the choking haze outside...

U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militant group in eastern Syria,...

The United States remains concerned about India-Pakistan tensions as the two nuclear-armed countries' militaries remain on alert despite some de-escalation in the region, a senior...

From bento boxes to individually wrapped bananas, plastic reigns supreme in Japan. But amid global concern about single-use waste, new legislation could help end the...

A 45-year-old Indonesian maid was found guilty on Wednesday (Mar 20) of stealing more than S$30,000 worth of items from the family of Changi Airport...

A new Indonesian election survey shows President Joko Widodo's big lead over his challenger, retired general Prabowo Subianto, is narrowing, just weeks ahead of next...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday announced recreational projects in the capital Riyadh worth USD 23 billion, officials said, in a new drive to transform...

The Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Iskandar on Tuesday (Mar 19) announced that he was cancelling two birthday events in light of the Pasir Gudang waste...

Four people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan,...

You could call it the 7 million-voter question: Will young people like the ones who turned out on a recent Saturday night to listen to...

Malaysia may list certain state-owned entities to cut government debt and liabilities, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday (Mar 19) as it seeks new...

China on Monday said that it would like to see the easing of tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack and the...

A Level 2 heatwave alert has been issued for parts of the Malaysian state of Kedah, as a heatwave grips the country.In an update on...

A train collision disrupted services in Hong Kong on Monday (Mar 18), threatening commuter chaos during rush hour in the heart of the Asian financial...