An editor from Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily newspaper was killed in a landslide in Lombok, Indonesia, after an earthquake on Sunday (Mar 17), a Malaysian...

Two people were killed and more than 30 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia's...

Test tubes holding plants line shelves in a Malaysian laboratory, the heart of a breeding programme for dwarf palm oil trees which scientists hope will...

China on Friday (Mar 15) flatly rejected criticism of mass detainment of Muslim minorities in its restive Xinjiang region, insisting it has set up "campuses",...

North Korea is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, news...

The US, France and the UK are believed to be in intense "good faith" discussions with China to arrive at a "compromise", including on the...

China said on Friday it was willing to have more discussions with all parties concerned including India on blacklisting the head of Pakistan-based militant group...

Singapore has been "clear and consistent" in its position that Malaysia has lost the right to review the price of water under the 1962 Water...

Indian elections are big. Big in numbers and big in significance. The national election coming up in April to May will have more than 800 million...

A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, will continue trial after Malaysian prosecutors rejected a request from...

China is running boarding schools, not concentration camps, in the far western region of Xinjiang, its governor said on Tuesday, as the United States called...

Malaysia’s education ministry on Wednesday (Mar 13) ordered all 111 schools in Pasir Gudang to shut after a suspected chemical leak there left hundreds of...

A top US envoy said on Monday (Mar 11) Washington's goal is the complete denuclearisation of North Korea by the end of Donald Trump's first...

The number of people affected by illegal dumping of toxic waste into a river in Pasir Gudang, Johor rose to 207 as of Monday night...

 A 52-year-old man has been arrested for insulting Hinduism on Facebook, Malaysia police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said on Tuesday (Mar 12).The man, who was...

Two Belgian women who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group in Syria said Sunday they were losing hope they...

Two Pakistani-origin sisters from London are believed to be the latest set of mothers to lose their British citizenship for marrying into the Islamic State...

Malaysia police have heightened alert against foreign terrorist fighters infiltrating the country, following the arrest of nine terror suspects in February.The inspector general of police...

India announced on Sunday (Mar 10) a general election to be held over nearly six weeks starting on Apr 11, when hundreds of millions voters...

China's aviation regulator said on Monday (Mar 11) it had ordered Chinese airlines to suspend their Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operations by 6pm following a...

For young Malaysians, getting a tertiary education often involves applying for a loan from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN), if their parents are...

North Koreans go to the polls Sunday (Mar 10) for an election in which there can be only one winner.Leader Kim Jong Un's ruling Workers'...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called for "decisive" action by Pakistan against a terrorist group behind a deadly suicide attack in a border area,...

Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres...

A hard-line cleric once thought to be a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader was appointed head of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary Thursday, sparking concern...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan today said no terror group would be allowed to operate on Pakistani soil and carry out attacks abroad, days after...

Twenty-one students were still in hospital on Friday (Mar 8) after breathing in methane fumes from chemical waste that had been illegally dumped into a...

Emotional relatives of those aboard Flight MH370 on Friday (Mar 8) demanded answers to one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries and called for the...

India's top lawyer told the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Mar 6) it may file a criminal case against The Hindu newspaper under India's Official Secrets...

The US has revised its visa policy for the Pakistani citizens by slashing the visa validity from five years to 1 year, according to a...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court took up on Wednesday Mukhtar Mai’s review petition against the acquittal of 13 suspects in her gang-rape case eight years after she...

The case of a Filipina domestic worker in Hong Kong who was sacked after being diagnosed with cervical cancer - leaving her without healthcare -...

North Korea recorded its worst harvest for more than a decade last year, the United Nations said Wednesday (Mar 6), as natural disasters combined with...

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn could leave his Tokyo detention centre on Wednesday (Mar 6) after a court overnight upheld a shock decision to grant...

North Korea is reportedly restoring facilities at its long-range rocket launch site that it had dismantled as part of disarmament steps last year.The development came...

Pakistan's claims of shooting down an Indian Air Force Sukhoi Jet during the mid-air face-off between Indian Air Force and Pakistani Air Force jets on...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said he is "not worthy" of the Nobel Prize prize, adding that one who solves the Kashmir dispute...

Pakistan fully reopened its airspace on Monday, authorities said, days after it closed its skies to all air travel, leaving thousands stranded worldwide as tensions...

China announced on Tuesday (Mar 5) a 7.5 per cent increase in military spending in 2019, lower than last year as the country faces an...

India's air force shot down on Monday (Mar 4) a Pakistani military drone that strayed over its border, Indian media reported as tensions continued to...

China’s rubber-stamp parliament opens its annual session on Tuesday as President Xi Jinping faces growing concerns about the slowing economy, a major challenge to the...

Malaysia will consider resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 if companies interested in the hunt come forward with viable proposals or credible...

India’s air strikes this week targeting suspected terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and subsequent air battles comes at a time of growing concerns about sharply declining...

Malaysia’s transport minister said Sunday that the government is open to new proposals from U.S. technology firm Ocean Infinity or any other companies to resume...

It is not easy to repair a 60-year-old system left behind by Malaysia's previous government, said Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah on Sunday (Mar 3). The...

US officials have said any trade deal with China will include a provision to prevent manipulation of the exchange rate to help exporters but Beijing's...

A local official says more than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria.The Nembe Chiefs...

Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday submitted a resolution in National Assembly Secretariat, demanding to award a Nobel Peace Prize to Prime Minister Imran...

Former Deputy Prime Minister and senior Communist leader of Nepal Bharat Mohan Adhikari passed away at the age of 83.Adhikari, who also served as Finance...

Barisan Nasional's (BN) Zakaria Hanafi has won the Semenyih state by-election, the Malaysian Election Commission (EC) announced on Saturday (Mar 2).Zakaria won the four-cornered fight...

Saudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Hamza bin...

The United Nations on Friday stressed that refugees fleeing conflict should be granted safe haven after Bangladesh declared that it would no longer take in...

Russia on Friday offered to mediate and provide venue to Pakistan and India for the talks to resolve their current differences, Pakistan Foreign Office said.Russia's...

Pakistan has freed an Indian fighter pilot captured after his plane was shot down in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was handed over to Indian...

A baby born in Tokyo weighing the same as a large onion has gone home healthy, becoming the smallest newborn boy in the world to...

Civil servants working at federal departments in some Malaysia states will get flexible working hours as part of a pilot programme starting on Friday (Mar...

Four people including two children were killed and ten others injured in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops in Kashmir on Tuesday...

Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian Air Force jets in a major escalation of the Kashmir conflict.A spokesman said one plane had fallen...

India wants to avoid any "further escalation of the situation" after conducting "pre-emptive" air strikes against militant camps in Pakistani territory, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj...

A Pakistani court on Monday dismissed a bail petition filed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds in Al-Azizia reference case. An Islamabad...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday that India's "dream" of isolating Pakistan will never be fulfilled, amidst simmering tensions between the two...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday (Feb 25) that he did not need the support from opposition Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), amid persistent...

A Malaysian man has been sentenced to five years in jail for smuggling more than 6 million cigarettes into Australia.The Australia Border Force (ABF) said...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday (Feb 25) that the controversial relocation of a US military base in Okinawa will not be delayed despite...

Indian authorities have detained hundreds of separatist leaders and Muslim activists in an escalating crackdown in disputed Kashmir with the region remaining on high alert...

Bangladesh commandos stormed a passenger jet in the country's southeast on Sunday (Feb 24) and shot dead an armed man who allegedly tried to hijack...

Residents of Japan's Okinawa go to the polls Sunday (Feb 24) in a closely watched referendum on the controversial relocation of a US military base...

Discounts, lucky draws and freebies were everywhere at property fairs across Penang over the first weekend of the Chinese New Year period.Rebates of up to...

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un was on a train Sunday to Vietnam for his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, state media confirmed.Kim...

The Pakistan government on Saturday dismissed its own claim that it had taken over the control of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) headquarters and said the complex...

At least 84 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, and around 200 others have been hospitalised,...

A two-year-old boy who died this week in Johor Bahru is believed to have had diphtheria, said Malaysia's health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah on Saturday...

Two Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong say chronic physical abuse by male family members prompted them to flee the kingdom, where they now fear...

The North Korean special representative for the US arrived in Beijing on Tuesday (Feb 19), apparently en route to Vietnam to meet his Washington counterpart...

Malaysian police have arrested a man suspected of attacking and robbing a woman in a lift at the Taman Mutiara Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station...

Taiwan hit out at Spain on Monday (Feb 18) after two Taiwanese fraud suspects were deported to China despite objections from the government in Taipei...

At least four soldiers died Monday (Feb 18) in a fierce gunfight with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir just four days after a suicide bomber killed...

A two-year-old girl died after falling onto a kitchen knife, which pierced her abdomen, in her home in Kuala Kurau in the Malaysian state of...

Indonesia's capital city is counting down to a transportation revolution next month, when it will have its own Mass Rapid Transit system (MRT). But as...

Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah will lead a team of Malaysian officials in renegotiating prices of raw water sold to Singapore, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...

Sitting in the spacious courtyard of an 18th-century ancestral hall belonging to his clan, William Liu defiantly rejects a lucrative birthright that his special status...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will arrive in Vietnam on Feb 25 ahead of a planned second summit with US President Donald Trump, three...

A 48-year-old woman suffered a brutal attack after she was punched and kicked several times during a robbery in a lift at the Taman Mutiara...

The sound of mortar shelling and fighter jets whizzing by filled the air.At the base in this small village, fighters from the U.S.- backed Syrian...

Myanmar's army chief, who is facing international calls to be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, has denied any systematic army persecution and...

Donald Trump on Friday (Feb 15) hailed Pyongyang's "tremendous" economic potential and his "great relationship" with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un ahead of...

The Malaysian judiciary has lodged a police report over allegations of judicial misconduct and interference made by a sitting judge, it announced on Friday (Feb...

The wife of former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being treated for blood cancer at the National University Hospital, Yudhoyono said on Wednesday (Feb...

Papua New Guinea has recovered 40 Maserati cars that vanished after being controversially purchased for a recent APEC summit in the impoverished nation, but other...

They arrive in battered cars, on crutches and sometimes on a stretcher barely able to breathe - but salvation is close for thousands of Hindus...

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was expected to be released on bail Thursday (Feb 14), after her arrest sparked international condemnation and allegations she is being...

The Thai king's sister, disqualified this week by the Election Commission from running for prime minister, apologised on Tuesday (Feb 12) for causing "problems" for...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Pakistan is likely to bring $20 billion investment in the country.Deals with Saudi Arabia have been...

"A current-account deficit is not a sin" says Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, "but we are punished just the same". The minister -- former...

Chizuka Oe and Yoko Ogawa have been together for 25 years, but when they submitted their marriage registration at a Tokyo town hall, they knew...

Thailand's election commission may recommend that the Thai Raksa Chart party be dissolved for allegedly drawing the monarchy into politics, according to reports by the...

The wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak will apply to suspend the proceedings of a lawsuit filed against her by Lebanese jewellery company...

For smartphone-wielding hordes of tourists, Hong Kong boasts a host of must-have Instagram locations - but crowds of snap-happy travellers are testing local patience and...

Air pollution in 39 major northern Chinese cities rose 16 per cent on the year in January, official data showed, with surging industrial activity making...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned US allies on Monday (Feb 11) against deploying equipment from Chinese telecoms gear manufacturer Huawei on their soil, saying...

Malaysia's toppled leader Najib Razak will go on trial this week over an extraordinary financial scandal that contributed to the downfall of his long-ruling coalition...

The United States and North Korea will hold further talks next week to prepare for a second summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong...

South Korea said on Sunday (Feb 10) it has agreed to hike its payment for maintaining American troops on its soil, settling a dispute with...

Israeli police said Saturday they arrested a Palestinian suspect in the killing of an Israeli teenager, as thousands of people in Gaza buried two Palestinian...

Indonesian police have admitted that its officers used a live snake to terrorise a Papuan man, after a video of the incident was uploaded online,...

China's foreign ministry on Saturday (Feb 9) condemned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the northeastern border state of Arunachal Pradesh, also claimed by...

A Thai political party will obey a command from the king blocking the candidacy of Princess Ubolratana for prime minister, it said in a statement...

Bangladesh is hopeful over the assurance that was given by India over the contentious dispute on the water-sharing issue of Teesta river, flowing on the...

Turkey on Saturday (Feb 9) condemned China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as "a great embarrassment for humanity," adding to rights groups' recent...

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Friday moved to block his his elder sister’s surprise bid to run for prime minister in March, calling her candidacy...

It was created as a biting satire of South Korea’s notoriously competitive education system, but the country’s most popular cable TV drama has inspired some...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers, their official news agency Sepah News reported.The move was...

Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged Myanmar to show a genuine commitment to ending violence and displacement in its Rakhine State, where hundreds of thousands of...

Three sisters died after their car collided head-on with another vehicle at Pasir Mas in Malaysia's Kelantan state on Wednesday (Feb 6). The oldest sibling, 23-year-old...

Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of jungle is...

A mission to explore uncharted depths in the Indian Ocean was launched on Wednesday, hoping to discover hundreds of new species and find out what...

The Sultan Ismail Hospital (SIH) canteen has been closed for two weeks from Tuesday (Feb 5), after an examination by health authorities found that the...

President Ashraf Ghani is being pushed to the sidelines as the Taliban ignore his overtures for peace and negotiate instead with his friends, and enemies,...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was stopped from leaving the country by security officials at the Lahore airport late Tuesday night. According to...

Sri Lanka's president resisted calls from the island's Buddhist hierarchy to release a jailed firebrand monk Monday (Feb 4), even as 518 other convicts were...

A senior Abu Sayyaf operative and four members of the militant group believed to be behind the deadly bombing of a church in the southern...

Hakeem al-Araibi, a jailed Bahraini footballer who fled his country and has refugee status in Australia, arrived on Monday (Feb 4) in a Thai court,...

Hundreds of aspiring politicians including a masked costumed hero registered on Monday (Feb 4) for Thailand's first election since the 2014 coup, promising a colourful...

Philippine troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in fierce jungle fighting that left five soldiers and three militants dead, as the military pushed forward with...

Iran displayed a new cruise missile with a range of 1,300 kilometers on Saturday during celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, state...

Pakistan has no intention to interfere in India's internal matters and New Delhi should not make an issue out of his telephonic conversation with Kashmiri...

This week, the Myanmar government opened a two-day investment summit in the country’s capital Naypyitaw which primarily aimed to drum up investment interest in the...

With no police officers in sight, one would think it would be easy to get away with jaywalking in a crowded city like Shanghai.But this...

Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar on charges linked to their reporting of the Rohingya crisis lodged an appeal Friday...

China will provide USD 2.5 billion in loans to Pakistan to boost the foreign exchange reserves of its "all-weather ally", a media report said Saturday.Pakistan...

A constitutional law textbook written by one China's best-known reform-minded legal scholars has been pulled from book shops, apparently the latest text to run afoul...

With the Year of the Pig starting on Tuesday (Feb 5), pig lovers in Taiwan fear that a rush of people wanting to usher good...

A team of Chinese scientists has won a prestigious US award for a 2017 study that many say has laid the groundwork for ultra-secure communications.Lead...

Pakistan has launched a dollar bond under the Pakistan Banao (make) Certificate to strengthen the deteriorating economy. Prime Minister Imran Khan launched Pakistan Banao Certificate...

Camo-clad rangers ambush a camp in a lush Thai national park, kicking away a machete and a firearm and pinning two suspected poachers to the...

High up in the mountains of Oita this Monday morning, it’s not hard to imagine a life of Zen.You’ve got front row seats to a...

A powerful Hindu priest said on Wednesday (Jan 30) he would lead a group of followers to start building a Hindu temple on the ruins...

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei survived food shortages during China's Cultural Revolution, but now the reclusive billionaire identified as "Individual-1" in a US indictment faces an...

Neatly lining up sliced whale meat to make "jerky" in the wintry sea breeze, Tetsuya Masaki says whaling is just part of daily life in...

A grenade attack on a mosque in the troubled southern Philippines killed two people early Wednesday (Jan 30), authorities said, just days after a deadly...

Illicit capital outflows from Bangladesh go unabated and as much as US$81.74 billion was siphoned off the country during the period 2006-2015, according to a...

The extradition hearing for a top Huawei executive at the centre of a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Beijing was pushed back to March on...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected review petition against Christian woman Aasia Bibi’s acquittal in blasphemy case.Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa announced: “Based on merit,...

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has given his reaction to the decision of the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) decision to strip Malaysia of the right...

China’s economy had an unexpected downturn in 2018. Industrial upgrading, economic policy battles and trade friction with the United States all contributed to the slowdown....

Malaysian prosecutors on Monday (Jan 28) charged former prime minister Najib Razak with three more counts of money laundering, allegedly receiving the proceeds of illegal...

Representatives from Singapore and Malaysia held "constructive discussions" on Monday (Jan 28) when a working group set up to iron out maritime issues involving the...

An attempt by South Korea to create artificial rain to tackle air pollution many blame on neighbouring China has failed, the government said Monday (Jan...

Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) defeat in the Cameron Highlands by-election on Saturday (Jan 26) serves as a lesson for PH to fix weaknesses in the ruling...

Malaysia will make an official announcement on the RM81 billion Chinese-backed East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project next week, said Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng...