Two women convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sex have been caned in a rare public whipping in northeastern Malaysia...

A woman's challenges in trying to report sexual assault allegations show the determination of a new generation trying to push China into its own #MeToo movement...

Police say a Polish man detained in Indonesia's troubled Papua region on suspicion of links to separatists, will be tried on a charge of being involved in a treasonous plot...

Media report a Hong Kong University professor was charged with murder after his wife's body was found inside a suitcase in his campus office...

Indonesian security forces have detained a Polish tourist in the troubled Papua region on suspicion of links to separatists...

Japanese police are investigating the deaths of 4 elderly patients at a hospital in heat-struck central Japan after the air conditioning failed in their rooms...

Relatives of several people slain in the Philippine president's anti-drug campaign have asked the International Criminal Court to prosecute him for alleged crimes against humanity, in the second such ...

A Japanese man released by North Korea after being accused of an unspecified crime has arrived back in Japan...

A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a South African man to death after finding him guilty of trafficking nearly 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of cocaine...

Police in the Indonesian part of Borneo island have arrested more than a dozen people suspected of starting forest fires that have killed at least four people in the past month...