Asia / Pacific

North Korea carried out a test-launch of strategic cruise missiles in the Yellow Sea this week, in a drill Pyongyang said Friday aimed at showing off its “counterattack” capabilities. Leader…

Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul. “All…

Taiwan dispatched forces on Wednesday in response to China’s “live-fire” drills off the self-ruled island, Taipei’s defence ministry said, condemning the exercises as dangerous. China deployed 32 aircraft around Taiwan…

A fresh search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been launched more than a decade after the plane went missing in one of aviation‘s greatest enduring mysteries. Maritime exploration firm…

Ousted South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol became the country’s first sitting head of state to stand trial in a criminal case as hearings opened Thursday on his bid to…

Operating from a small Paris studio, thousands of kilometres from Kabul, Begum TV has emerged as a beacon of hope for the women of Afghanistan, offering a raft of programmes…

At least 18 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India‘s capital late Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest religious gathering,…

North Korea is demolishing a venue that for decades hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the Korean War and the division of the country, Seoul said Thursday, calling the…

At a bookstore in the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon, Neha Sharma has picked up a brand new copy of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” – finally. “One time, my…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party won the most seats in the high-stakes state legislature election in India’s federal territory, including New Delhi, according to official data on…