Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, has taken her oath as vice president following a landslide electoral victory she clinched despite her father’s human r...

Philippine security officials say two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused of beheading two kidnapped Canadian tourists and a German have surrendered...

Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu has faced rape and other criminal charges at a closed trial as China was in uproar over a video showing a group of men physically assaulting four women in another cit...

Chinese authorities have arrested nine people on suspicion of violently assaulting several women at a restaurant after surveillance footage of the attack sparked widespread outrage...

A fire caused by suspected arson spread through an office building in South Korea’s Daegu city, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens of others...

Authorities on the southern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island have arrested a Japanese fugitive accused of fraud in Japan...

Some residents of Shanghai have been allowed out of their homes as the city of 25 million eases a two-week-old shutdown...

Indonesia’s parliament has approved a far-reaching law setting punishments for sexual violence after being spurred into action by a recent case in which an Islamic boarding school principal raped and ...

The scandal at a top Japanese brokerage has widened with the arrest by Tokyo prosecutors of the vice president of SMBC Nikko Securities on charges of stock manipulation...