Undiagnosed disease in Myanmar hits the Sagain region, killing 38 people from the Naga tribes, and most were children.

A murderous rampage by a knife-wielding attacker in Japan has resulted in at least 15 deaths and dozens more injured, according to Japanese news outlets.

“Pressed by the Philippines at the Tribunal and under diplomatic pressure from maritime Asean claimant states such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, China saw fit to cash in some of its patron-client ties with Cambodia and Laos, two small mainland Asean states, for diplomatic backup.” By Thitinan Pongsudhirak.

The mega-city of New Delhi has tried everything from banning diesel guzzling SUVs to taking about half the city’s cars off the streets in a fight against air pollution. Officials may yet have to do much, much more. By Anindya Upadhyay ,

A mob burns down a mosque in northern Myanmar in the second attack of its kind in just over a week.

Experts say the long-persecuted community is on brink of "mass annihilation."

Another look at a skull unearthed in Malaysian Borneo 60 years ago can shed light on the mystery of how early humans moved throughout Southeast Asia thousands of years ago.

A tornado, hail storms and driving rain killed at least 78 people and injured some 500 in eastern China on Thursday, flattening power lines, overturning cars and ripping roofs off houses in Jiangsu province.

A Chinese fighter jet carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. military aircraft, an Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane, on routine patrol on Tuesday in international airspace over the East China Sea, U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement. The intercept involved two Chinese J-10 fighter planes, the statement said.

This city is supposed to be the “diamond” on China’s Silk Road Economic Belt — a new metropolis carved out of the mountains in the country’s arid northwest. But it is shaping up to be fool’s gold, a ghost city in the making. Lanzhou New Area, in Gansu province, embodies China’s twin dreams of catapulting its poorer western regions into the economic mainstream through an orgy of infrastructure spending and cementing its place at the heart of Asia through a revival of the ancient Silk Road.

A weathered sign indicated our altitude on Tajikistan's Ak-Baital Pass -- 4,655 meters above sea level. Barren mountains stretched in every direction, casting shadows over the second-highest international road in the world. China loomed over the eastern horizon. Kyrgyzstan was behind us. To the south lay Afghanistan and the fabled Wakhan Corridor. We were heading south, along the Pamir Highway, officially known as the M41.

North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two intermediate range ballistic missiles on Thursday but both failed, a South Korean official said, in a setback for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the run-up to next week's ruling party congress.

At least 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a gun battle in the southern Philippines between government forces and the militant group Abu Sayyaf, military officials said Sunday. Among the militants, the dead included a Moroccan bomb maker and the son of a rebel leader, the military said. It also said more than 20 rebels were believed to have been wounded, but offered no additional details.

The world's count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with some 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups said Monday.

Dangdut is such an oversaturated musical genre in Indonesia that it’s not surprising how many artists employ gimmicks in their act to stand out from the rest. Unfortunately, dangdut singer Irma Bule’s deadly gimmick, combined with her dedication to showmanship, led to her untimely death.

Leaks of the SAT have been far more pervasive than acknowledged, documents show. The new SAT is vulnerable to a security hole that's widely exploited in Asia.

This is the story of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and crimes against humanity.

In the West, we expect philosophy to come from books. In the East, more wisely, there’s an awareness that it may legitimately come from rocks as well... (Exc. The Book of Life, Chapter 4, Self: Virtues of Character)

The Silk Road – from the Eastern Mediterranean to China’s Pacific shore – is once again the centre of the world

Residents within 5km radius of Fast project in Guizhou province will be forced to leave their homes and offered £1,275 in compensation. By Tom Phillips.