The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution on the scope, modalities, format, and organisation of the high-level conference on the situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar under the sponsorship of Malaysia and Finland...
A Myanmar junta airstrike on a remote village medical clinic killed 11 people including a doctor and his wife, locals said...
Pakistan detained a leading female Baloch rights activist on Saturday for holding a sit-in in southwestern Balochistan at which three protesters were also killed, police said...
The founder of a Pakistani internet media channel appeared in court on Friday on charges of 鈥榓nti-state posts and fake news鈥� under toughened legislation targeting online content.
Indian forces killed at least 30 Maoist rebels on Thursday in one of the deadliest jungle clashes since the government ramped up efforts to crush the long-running insurgency...
Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding has dried up...
Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban鈥檚 oppression of women...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 fugitive police chief surrendered to authorities and was remanded in custody Wednesday, weeks after his arrest was ordered over a botched raid that killed a fellow officer...
Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes were sparked by Hindu nationalist groups who want to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.
Pakistan鈥檚 volatile Balochistan province has ordered the closure of three universities in recent weeks due to 鈥榮ecurity concerns,鈥� an official said on Tuesday, as separatist attacks surge in the region...
The World Health Organisation said Monday 80 per cent of services that it supports in Afghanistan could shut down by June due to a funding shortage...
A Sri Lankan court refused on Monday to quash an arrest warrant for the island nation鈥檚 fugitive police chief who is wanted over an officer鈥檚 death in a botched raid.
Thailand on Saturday responded to a United States visa ban on officials from the kingdom involved in deporting dozens of Uyghurs back to China, saying it had 鈥榬eceived assurances鈥� of their safety.
A group of Myanmar soldiers fled across the Thai border on Friday after an assault by an ethnic armed group ousted them from their base, Thailand鈥檚 military said.
The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food聽 aid because of 鈥榗ritical funding shortfalls鈥�, it said on Friday.