One of Thailand's leading hospitals, known for treating medical tourists, said on Friday it had received the country's first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

North Korea is facing its worst drought in a century, state media says, sparking fears of worsening food shortages.

Thousands of people living close to the Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia are forced to flee their homes after it begins erupting violently.

Angry citizens oppose the tactic and fear that such investigations could be more widely implemented.

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North Korea faces famine if the country’s drought continues, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said this week.

China's greenhouse gas emissions could start to decline within 10 years, says a London School of Economics report.

Transworld Aviation has been awarded Garmin dealership.

In Burma, thousands of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority are fleeing persecution from Buddhists. Abused by smugglers, they are being turned away from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

The principle of non-violence is central to Buddhist teachings, but in Sri Lanka some Buddhist monks are being accused of stirring up hostility towards other faiths and ethnic minorities.

Asia’s favorite high — meth — is cheap, dirty and more popular than ever. New data from the United Nations reveals that authorities seized more than 270 million pills of meth by authorities last year. That’s a whopping 10-fold increase in just seven years. Even pot can’t compete. The more meth cranked out by underground chemists in far-flung labs, the cheaper meth tends to get.

China has over 300 million smokers and over a million Chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year. The Communist Party of China has approved the prohibition of smoking in public places in Beijing, the country’s capital city. The party gave in to pressure from various health groups and set aside another pressure from the tobacco industry.

It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the cook to go easy on the hot peppers, anything you order in Chongqing is going to be mouth numbing and spicier than you’ve ever tasted before. It will be good, but it will be hot. The food of Chongqing is a subset of Sichuan cuisine, though there are probably a few places where saying that would be an invitation to a fight, or at least a lengthy debate.

As tens of thousands of Chinese students prepare to study in the U.S., they might reflect on the experience of some of those who went before them. According to an estimate by a U.S. education company, some 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from American universities last year alone – and the main reasons were poor grades and cheating.

Fifteen Chinese nationals living in the United States have been charged with developing a fraud scheme in which impostors took college entrance exams including the SAT, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

India's economic growth is projected to surpass that of China's, with the GDP expected to zoom by 7.7 percent in 2016, according to a UN report which said India will help accelerate economic growth in South Asia.

We know him as Michael Jordan, but in China, His Airness is known as "Qiaodan." It turns out that's a problem for MJ, who is having to battle in Chinese courts for legal right to his own name -- and so far, he's losing. Jordan is embroiled in a lawsuit against Qiaodan Sports -- again, this business name is equivalent to "Michael Jordan Sports"...

South Korea on Monday decided to provide $10 billion to India for infrastructure, development of smart cities, railways, power generation and other diversified areas as the two countries agreed to upgrade their bilateral relationship to a “Special Strategic Partnership”.