There were no immediate reports of damage
An overcrowded bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims plummeted into a precipice in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 21 and injuring 24, a senior transport official said
The junta initially announced a ceasefire in early April, days after the March 28 earthquake
For 10 nights straight, gunfire between Indian and Pakistani soldiers has echoed from the border
Wong's People's Action Party took all but 10 seats in the 97-seat unicameral legislature
Singaporeans cast their votes Saturday in an election where Prime Minister Lawrence Wong faces his first major test against a rejuvenated opposition in uncertain economic times for the trade-centred nation
Monitors from the Britain-based Centre for Information Resilience logged 65 air attacks by the military during the proclaimed ceasefire
More than 60,000 Myanmar students must retake university entrance exams after their answer papers were incinerated in a blaze
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing myriad charges he says are rigged to keep him from contesting elections next year, was replaced yesterday as head of the party he founded, officials said.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children landed in Indonesia's westernmost province on Saturday, officials said, but locals were threatening to push them back to sea
At least seven people were killed yesterday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a rickshaw carrying two Shia clerics in western Afghanistan, an official and residents said.
Rescuers are still searching for four missing workers believed to be pinned under the rubble where a building under construction had collapsed at about 9:45pm (local time)
An accountability court in Pakistan yesterday turned down the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) request for an extension of former prime minister Imran Khan’s physical remand, and instead sent him on judicial remand in a corruption case.
An ethnic minority armed group in Myanmar has seized control from the country's ruling junta of a lucrative border crossing to China, local media and a security source said Sunday
Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen will form a new political party, his lawyer said, splitting from his successor’s ruling party and posing the new president a major setback ahead of parliamentary polls.
At least 11 people were killed and 35 injured yesterday by a fire at a shopping mall in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi, officials said.
The Chinese military has begun live-fire drills with Myanmar in a border security move as violence escalates between the Southeast Asian country’s ruling junta and armed rebel groups that are fighting for greater autonomy and return to democracy
At least 11 people were killed and 35 injured Saturday by a fire at a shopping mall in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, officials said
