Myanmar's top leaders will hold talks this week with opposition chief Aung San Suu Kyi, the first since her party's landmark election success, officials said yesterday.

Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Malaysia yesterday condemned the string of Islamic extremist attacks from Paris to Mali, urging an international effort to fight the scourge.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has rebuked some politicians from her victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) for exceeding an internal election spending limit amid worries the beaten ruling party may seek to challenge poll results, an NLD source said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised Myanmar's landmark elections as an important step toward democracy and "a triumph for Burmese people, who have clearly voiced their desire for change."

This would be the dream scenario for Aung San Suu Kyi. An outright majority would give her National League for Democracy (NLD) party a much stronger footing in the jostling for who becomes president, a post that will decided by Myanmar's legislative chambers early next year. To do that, the NLD need to win 67 percent of the 491 seats available (323 in the lower house, 168 in the upper). In contrast,

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore this weekend, the two sides said, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.

US astronaut Scott Kelly touches a new milestone remaining away from Earth for the longest period in his single mission in the space.

Malaysia increasingly resembles a "police state" as the government uses repressive laws to silence critics including those demanding the prime

Dense haze from Indonesian forest fires has caused some of the worst pollution in southern Thailand for a decade, officials said yesterday, cancelling flights in

The Philippines is preparing for a typhoon that is forecast to dump heavy rain and cause severe flooding when it arrives at the weekend.

Aung San Suu Kyi intends to lead a new Myanmar government if her party wins historic polls despite being barred from the presidency, she says in an interview broadcast yesterday.

Rescuers yesterday found the wreckage of a plane carrying 10 people that disappeared during a flight in central Indonesia last week, the

Myanmar's firebrand Buddhist monk Wirathu has openly endorsed President Thein Sein's ruling party in the Nov 8 general election, saying Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was "full of themselves" and unlikely to win the vote.

In joint with the Hong Kong Conservancy Association and Long Valley Eco Paddy, Pokfulam villagers and volunteers crafted the dragon with the grasses from the first batch of harvest from the local eco farm.

Myanmar's president has signed a law requiring Buddhist women to seek permission before marrying outside their faith. Parliament passed the bill in July

Eight persons died when a mini truck carrying around 20 people, a team of local kabaddi players, overturned and fell off a bridge near Suarapalli village on the Lahunipara-Baharaposi in Sundargarh district.

Nepal has formally adopted a new constitution, nearly a decade after the country ended a long-running civil war.

Three people were killed and 14 wounded by a motorcycle bomb blast in Thailand's deep south, officials said yesterday. Since 2004 more than 6,400 people

Thailand's junta yesterday said elections are unlikely to take place before June 2017 in the latest delay to the restoration of democracy since the military seized

Scientists determines that the sub-surface body of water on the Saturnian moon Enceladus must be far more extensive than first thought.