Myanmar's powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy are slated to extend their terms for another five years, a local newspaper said yesterday. The

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has today released a new 360-degree video which gives a virtual tour of the Martian surface, reports the Tech Crunch. The video has been created by stitching together the images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on December 18th, 2015.

Europe begins to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Myanmar President Thein Sein hails the "triumph" of the country's transition of power, addressing a military-dominated parliament for the final time before a handover to Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy movement.

The $681m (£479m) deposited in the bank account of Malaysian PM Najib Razak by Saudi Arabia is to help him win the 2013 elections, a Saudi source says.

Ousted Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra went on trial yesterday over a costly rice subsidy policy that could see her jailed for a decade, as the ruling junta seeks to ward off a political comeback by her family.

The Islamic State group issued a cryptic warning before multiple blasts hit the Indonesian capital Jakarta yesterday, killing at least sevenpeople, police said.

A "Paris-style" suicide strike on the Indonesian capital Thursday confirmed Southeast Asian governments' worst fears -- that citizens returning from fighting alongside the Islamic State group in the Middle East could launch attacks at home.

At least 15 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a polio vaccination centre in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.

Chief of People's Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti is chosen as the next Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Hindu temples in southern India began turning away devotees wearing western clothes after a court order banning jeans and shorts as "inappropriate" for spiritual worship came into effect.

Families of those killed in an AirAsia plane crash in Indonesia demanded yesterday the airline apologise for negligence after a probe showed faulty equipment

Dozens of people were feared dead in Myanmar after a landslide hit a jade mining region, workers at a local mining firm said, the second such incident in just over a month.

The death toll from a ferry disaster in central Indonesia has climbed to 20, an official said yesterday, though nearly 60 people remain missing five days after

Thai authorities must step up witness protection for a major human trafficking trial with the accused including an army general and one investigator fleeing the country fearing for his life, activists said on Thursday as the first witnesses gave evidence. The case includes 88 defendants allegedly involved with lucrative smuggling gangs that were trafficking Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar, holding them for ransom in jungle camps before granting onward passage to Malaysia.

Two children have become the first victims found following a ferry accident in central Indonesia, an official says, as search and rescue teams continue scouring the rough seas for survivors.

UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.

Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar's parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said yesterday.

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks yesterday with the president and military chief about the handover of power, the first such discussions since her opposition party's election triumph.

Two prominent Thai opposition leaders were detained by soldiers yesterday as they tried to visit a public park at the centre of a corruption scandal that has