Police say their investigations into the sinking of two boats off Thailand's southern resort island of Phuket last week are progressing. The sinking of one boat left 45 Chinese tourists dead and two s...

South Korea's president ordered an investigation into a revelation that the military drew up a plan to mobilize troops if protests worsened over the fate of his impeached predecessor last year...

Van-riding assailants have gunned down the vice mayor of a small Philippine city south of Manila, the third such brazen killing of a local official in the past week...

Thousands of shouting South Korean women have angrily demanded stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and footage taken by hidden cameras which they say have women living in...

The execution of Shoko Asahara and six cult members leaves questions about the group that amassed weapons in preparation for the apocalypse then used sarin gas to attack commuters on the Tokyo subway...

The executions of a doomsday cult leader and 6 followers closed a chapter on one of Japan's most shocking crimes, the poison gas attack on Tokyo's subway that woke up a relatively safe country to urba...

North Korea's state-run media has denounced the United States for raising the issue of the North's dismal human rights record ahead of crucial talks between the countries to resolve the nuclear stando...

Police have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in the bombing last month of a police station in Ho Chi Minh City that injured a policewoman...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with criminal breach of trust and corruption after a multibillion-dollar graft scandal led to his stunning election defeat...

Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail says the rule of law must be followed in the prosecution of former Prime Minister Najib Razak...