Sri Lanka yesterday brushed aside Indian concerns over a scheduled visit by a Chinese ship, saying it was coming only to refuel and replenish supplies. The

Pakistan’s ex-premier Imran Khan’s party accepted millions of dollars in illegal funds from foreign individuals and groups, the election commission ruled

A Pakistani military helicopter carrying a senior commander and five others crashed on a mountain during a flood relief operation and all on board were killed, the military and police said on Tuesday.

A Japanese man has been detained in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, an official at Japan’s embassy confirmed yesterday, the latest foreigner ensnared in the junta-ruled nation.

Sri Lanka's new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office said on Sunday (July 31).

Police yesterday said they arrested a Sri Lankan trade union leader who allegedly took two official flags from the deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s palace and used them as a bedsheet and a sarong.

Sri Lanka’s president said Saturday that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis has been pushed back to September because of unrest over the past weeks.

The Taliban on Saturday raised the casualty toll from a hand grenade explosion during a cricket game in the capital of Kabul the previous day, saying two civilians at the stadium died from the blast.

Kolkata port today (July 30, 2022) began the first of four trial runs towards the full implementation of an agreement on India’s use of Chattogram and Mongla ports in Bangladesh for trade, according to a top official of the port.

The World Bank said yesterday it would not offer new funding to Sri Lanka unless the bankrupt island nation carried out “deep structural reforms” to stabilise its crashing economy.

A grenade blast during a match at Afghanistan's main cricket stadium wounded four spectators and briefly halted the game on Friday, officials and police said.

Three foreign climbers are missing and feared dead on Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum mountain range in the country’s far north, an official said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday approved the extension of a state of emergency for a month, as police said two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled the country’s president were arrested on unlawful assembly charges.

Pakistan’s top court has ruled to hand control of the country’s most populous province, Punjab, to a candidate backed by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggering fresh political uncertainty in the South Asian nation amidst a crippling economic crisis.

Myanmar’s ruling military yesterday defended its execution of four democracy activists as “justice for the people”, brushing off a deluge of international condemnation including from its closest neighbours.

BJP leader and Chief Minister of the northern Indian state Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, has said that India, Bangladesh and Pakistan can unite again like West and East Germany.

Entire wards are dark and nearly empty in Sri Lanka's largest hospital, its few remaining patients leaving untreated and still in pain, and doctors prevented from even arriving for their shifts.

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday,

Myanmar’s ruling military has executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out “terror acts”, it said yesterday, sparking widespread condemnation of the Southeast Asian nation’s first executions in decades.

Bangladesh today (July 25, 2022) urged India to show flexibility in the visa regime and wanted New Delhi to address the difference in overstay fine structures applied by the country.