More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight “US imperialists”, state media said Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile.

At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.

Two Pakistani policemen were killed while guarding teams collecting census data in separate attacks claimed by the local Taliban, police said yesterday.

Tokyo’s High Court yesterday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer, dubbed the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, nearly six decades after he was convicted of murder.

Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup fighters yesterday traded accusations over the killing of around 30 people who were sheltering in a monastery.

China’s Xi Jinping yesterday emphasised the need to strengthen national security, in his first address since being handed a historic third term as the country’s president.

Kim Jong Un ordered North Korea’s military to intensify drills for a “real war”, state media reported yesterday, as the leader oversaw a fire assault drill with his daughter in tow.

Pakistan TV stations have been banned from broadcasting speeches by former prime minister Imran Khan, the state media watchdog said, the latest hurdle facing the politician as he campaigns for early elections.

Police in Pakistan said officers yesterday attempted to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections.

Indonesia will relocate residents living near a fuel-storage fire that killed 16 people or remove the depot owned by state energy company Pertamina to a safer location, President Joko Widodo said on Sunday..The decision will rest with State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir, Pertamina

Authorities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore have refused permission for a rally to mark International Women’s Day, which regularly meets a fierce backlash in the conservative, patriarchal country.

At least 17 people were killed when a fire broke out on Friday at a fuel storage station operated by Indonesia's state energy company Pertamina in the capital Jakarta, an official at the city's main firefighting unit said

Myanmar’s military rulers now see civilians as their adversaries and are making war on the country’s own people, harming even the basic ability to live, the United Nations said yesterday.

A report published by the United Nations on Friday accused Myanmar's military of creating "a perpetual human rights crisis" in the southeast Asian country and called for an immediate end to violence there.

At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan’s Barkhan yesterday morning, police and health officials said.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr called for reconciliation and unity yesterday as the Southeast Asian nation marked the 37th anniversary of the “people power” revolution that toppled his dictator father.

Taliban authorities have closed the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Afghan official said yesterday, and residents in the area reported the sound of gunfire near the normally bustling border transit point.

The plane was carrying two passengers, a pilot and a crew member

Sri Lanka will ban single-use plastics, the government said yesterday, in a move that follows a series of wild elephant and deer deaths from plastic poisoning.

"On Valentine's Day no one will give them chocolates, flowers... so we thought of giving them this kind of incentive so they can also feel someone cares for them, someone loves them."