The main opposition organization in military-ruled Myanmar has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to act strongly to restore democracy in the Southeast Asian nation, saying that the interna...

The U.S. and South Korea say North Korea has tested parts of its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile in two recent launches...

Members of Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police squad have shot and killed a doctor resisting arrest who was allegedly connected to the banned Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, which has been blam...

The rivalry, mudslinging and negative campaigning between the two leading presidential candidates in South Korea are so bad that the loser faces a prospect of going to jail...

A Tokyo court will hand down a verdict Thursday in the criminal trial of Greg Kelly, an American and former executive at Japanese automaker Nissan...

As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the story of a chained woman who appeared in a video in rural China has continued to grow...

A court in Singapore is hearing a last-ditch appeal from the family of two death row inmates believed to be mentally disabled, hours before they were scheduled to be executed...

At the age of 17, Kamaltürk Yalqun was chosen to help carry the Olympic flame ahead of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, where he later represented his home region in western China...

Since Myanmar's military dismissed the results of democratic elections and seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, peaceful nationwide protests and violent crackdowns by security forces have spiraled into a nat...

Indonesia and Singapore have signed key defense and diplomatic agreements that appear to mark a turning point in relations between the Southeast Asian neighbors...