The lawyer for detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster says a court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced him to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges including incitement fo...

South Korean police say they’re pushing to investigate a U.S. diplomat to find if he intentionally fled following a traffic accident in Seoul...

Singapore’s High Court has halted the imminent execution of a Malaysian man believed to have a mental disability, amid pleas from the international community and rights groups...

Indonesian authorities have seized four plots of land owned by the youngest son of former dictator Suharto as part of efforts to recover money owed the government since the 1997-1998 Asian financial c...

Chinese authorities have squelched virtually all online discussion of sexual assault accusations apparently made by a Chinese professional tennis star against a former top government official, showing...

A  Myanmar court has rejected the bail application of Danny Fenster, an American journalist jailed for the past five months, and added a charge against him...

A trial has begun for Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists over their roles in an unauthorized Tiananmen vigil, amid a crackdown on political dissent in Hong Kong...

Pro-democracy activists in Thailand have announced a campaign to gather 1 million signatures to support the abolition of the law that makes defaming the monarchy a crime...

Police and witnesses in Japan say a man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train car has stabbed several passengers before setting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from ...

Police in Japan say a man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train car has stabbed several passengers before setting a fire...