Hundreds of Myanmar families were being uprooted from their homes on Saturday, a community organiser said, piling their belongings onto evacuation convoys to escape fighting between the military and anti-coup guerrillas...
Investigators recovered a black box recorder on Friday from the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India鈥檚 Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.
Communities across Asia鈥檚 Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures and rainfall expected to exceed normal levels, experts warned on Thursday...
Thailand鈥檚 Medical Council reaffirmed on Thursday its decision to sanction three physicians over the treatment of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra following his return from exile, after the health minister tried to veto the punishment.
Pakistani foreign minister Ishaq Dar said on Thursday he was 鈥榮addened鈥� by a plane crash in neighbouring India, where all 242 people on board an Air India flight are believed killed.
Thick black plumes of acrid smoke towered high above India鈥檚 Ahmedabad airport on Thursday after a London-bound passenger jet with 242 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff.
US planemaker Boeing said it was ready to support Air India following the crash on Thursday of a London-bound flight with 242 people on board.
A London-bound passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday leaving one known survivor from 242 on board, with the jet smashing into buildings housing doctors and their families.
Myanmar鈥檚 military junta and opposition forces are fighting over control of a lucrative trade route into Thailand, with shells and aerial attacks regularly forcing children to flee their schools, teachers and a parent told AFP.
India鈥檚 coastguard said Tuesday it was battling to stop a fierce blaze that has engulfed a Singapore-flagged container ship listing off the southern coast that broke out a day earlier.
Myanmar anti-coup guerrillas claimed to shoot down a junta jet on Tuesday, declaring a rare victory over the air force which has kept them at bay in a grinding civil war...
