A fire started by protesters at a council building in eastern Indonesia killed at least three people, a local official said on Saturday, after the death of a man hit by a police vehicle sparked widespread demonstrations.
The head of the US Senate armed services committee said Friday he was determined the United States and Taiwan remain 鈥榯he best of friends鈥�, during a trip to the democratic island claimed by China.
Protests erupted across several Indonesian cities on Friday in anger at the death of a motorcycle taxi driver hit by a police vehicle, as officers responded with tear gas and the president called for calm.
China鈥檚 president Xi Jinping will host world leaders including Russia鈥檚 Vladimir Putin and India鈥檚 Narendra Modi from Sunday for a summit before a huge military parade as he seeks to showcase a non-Western style of regional collaboration.
A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom鈥檚 longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on Wednesday under a mass pardon marking the king鈥檚 birthday...
China said on Wednesday it hopes the United States will welcome more Chinese students, after President Donald Trump said he intended to allow 6,00,000 students to enter the country...
The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rose to three in Vietnam on Tuesday, as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines and widespread flooding brought chaos to the streets of the capital Hanoi.
Vietnam evacuated tens of thousands of residents from coastal areas on Monday as Typhoon Kajiki made landfall, lashing the country鈥檚 central belt with gales of more than 130 kilometres per hour.
Cambodian parliamentarians passed legislation on Monday allowing people who 鈥榗ollude鈥� with foreign countries to be stripped of citizenship, a law rights groups fear will be used to banish dissent.
Vietnam said on Sunday it plans to evacuate more than 3,00,000 people and has cancelled over a dozen domestic flights as Typhoon Kajiki approaches.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the test-firing of two new air defence missiles, state media said Sunday, after Pyongyang accused Seoul of fomenting tensions on the border.
Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to boost cooperation bilateral cooperation in the face of a 鈥榗hallenging鈥� environment, as they met in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Taiwanese referendum on whether to restart a nuclear power plant failed on Saturday after the number of votes in favour fell short of the legally required threshold.
A journalist who works for Bloomberg News in Hong Kong said Saturday she has to leave the city after a foreign journalists鈥� club revealed that authorities had denied renewal of her working visa.
Twelve people were killed and four are missing after part of a bridge under construction collapsed Friday in northwest China, state media reported.
