A teenage boy has married his 73-year-old lover in a remote village on Indonesia's Sumatra, officials said, after the unconventional

The siblings of Singapore's prime minister offered a truce yesterday in an explosive family feud over the legacy of their late father,

Islamist militants have beheaded two Vietnamese sailors held hostage for eight months in the southern Philippines, the military said

A Rohingya Muslim was stoned to death and six others wounded by a mob of Buddhists in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state,

Myanmar will refuse entry to members of a United Nations probe focusing on allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces

A prominent Vietnamese blogger known as 'Mother Mushroom' was jailed for 10 years yesterday, her lawyer said. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu

The United States plans to sell four Black Hawk helicopters to Thailand after initially suspending their sale following a 2014 military coup.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday China would work to ensure a "far-reaching future" for Hong Kong's autonomy, but he

China rejects criticism over its treatment of cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo after the United States urged Beijing to give the paroled activist freedom to move and choose his own doctors.

China's jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last month, his lawyer says.

One of America's most wanted terrorists may have escaped a five-week battle with Islamist militants in a southern Philippine city, which

The Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia yesterday agreed to pool intelligence and tackle militant financing as fears grow that

Myanmar security forces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the

The number of recorded suicides and attempted suicides has soared at Thailand's largest camp for refugees from Myanmar, the

A two-day ‘Keep it Real: Truth and Trust in the Media’ conference ends in Singapore with a suite of recommendations aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation in Asia. As one of their first moves, news organisations in the region will draw up a step-by-step checklist to help journalists and readers identify and flag fake news.

Philippine troops pounded Islamist militants holding parts of southern Marawi city with air strikes and artillery yesterday as more

Jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he would not be a candidate for prime minister in elections due by

An explosion rocks a kindergarten in eastern China, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, authorities said, as state media published images showing bloodied and unconscious victims.

Maznah Unyan, 49, remembers the first time she set foot in Kuala Lumpur, it was the furthest she had ever been away from her orang asli village in Pulau Carey, Klang.

A family in Phitsanulok’s Muang district in Thailand has opened its doors – with free accommodation for foreign backpackers to expose their two young sons to everyday use of English.