Taiwan says it will stop employing North Korean workers on its fishing boats in compliance with U.N. sanctions on such contracts.The foreign ministry said in ...

South Korea is considering withdrawing some troops from its border zone with North Korea as a confidence-building measure after their landmark summit, the Defense Ministry ...

Nine Australians involved in rescuing 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand were awarded bravery medals on Tuesday for putting ...

The family of an Australian woman who was shot dead by Minneapolis police last year after calling them to report a suspected crime near her ...

Work by North Korea to dismantle a key testing facility for its missile engines and rocket launches could pave the way toward more intensive talks ...

Pro-democracy Hong Kong academics say they have been sidelined from city universities for their political views as fears grow that education is increasingly under pressure ...

North Korea has begun dismantling a key testing facility for its missile engines and rocket launches, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released ...

Bangladesh police Monday charged eight Islamist extremists over the savage 2016 attack claimed by Islamic State on a Dhaka cafe popular with Westerners that killed ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed during his annual State of the Nation address Monday to pursue his war on drugs, saying it would be as ...

Thailand is in hot pursuit of a cagey crocodile that has made unwelcome appearances off the beaches of Phuket only to slip through the clutches ...

Malaysia will repeal a tough security law used to detain government critics without charge under the former government, according to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and ...

A vaccine scandal in China, which has hit a nerve in the country and prompted quick reactions from leaders in Beijing, is sending ripples across ...

In June last year, Khoeun Virath was elected as a commune councilor in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, but months later his political party was ...

A prominent liberal South Korean politician embroiled in a corruption scandal has been found dead in a possible suicide.South Korea has one of the highest ...

Most members of the Thai youth football team rescued from a flooded cave will have their heads shaved, don robes and be ordained in a ...

India scrapped a controversial tax on sanitary pads Saturday, a move hailed by campaigners who say it will help more girls to go to school ...

AFP-JIJIThe frozen body of an Indian soldier has been found on a Himalayan glacier, a mountaineering team said Saturday, 50 years after he and more ...

State actors were likely behind Singapore’s biggest-ever cyberattack, security experts say, citing the scale and sophistication of the hack, which hit medical data of about ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Senegal on Saturday to strengthen economic ties with Africa, a continent already awash with cheap Chinese ...

A Muslim man was beaten to death by a mob in western India over allegations of smuggling cows, police said Saturday, despite calls by the ...