A 62m pyramid stands in the Kazakh capital - and the architectural splendour reveals the scale of the country's economic ambitions

After decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar will soon hold a nationwide election for all the seats in parliament not reserved for the military. Leading the charge for democratic change there is world-famous activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Special Correspondent Kira Kay has this report from the ground in Myanmar, where Aung San Suu Kyi is pushing for a government that reflects the will of the people.

Indonesia is in the midst of the worst spate of forest fires in nearly two decades, sending choking smoke across Southeast Asia, releasing tons of carbon, and destroying thousands of acres of peat forest, one of the world’s most effective carbon sinks.

For weeks now, the quality of life in parts of Southeast Asia has been left to sheer chance — the direction of the wind. Every day, it alone determines which city will be shrouded by peaty white smoke blowing from burning forests in Indonesia.

Stuart Freedman's journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafes which can be found in cities throughout the country.

Finding intimacy and beauty in a colourful, chaotic city.

If you weren’t already aware, there is a war going on at this very moment. It’s a war over history and how it is retold. The main protagonist, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has mobilised a vast army of propagandists to hijack post World War Two (WW2) history and retell it in a light that that will serve it going forward.

An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could.

Indonesia orders four companies to suspend operations for allegedly causing forest fires that have sent smoke across a swathe of South-East Asia.

AS WE highlighted in our recent essay, old resentments die hard in Asia. The latest report by the Pew Research Centre on public perceptions in countries in the Asia-Pacific region bears this out.

The margins of human civilization house some of the greatest secrets and mysteries.

The BBC explains what causes the annual haze that envelopes Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and what makes it such a hot issue.

In his cell at Yerovda Jail near Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste.

Mount Aso in Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu has erupted sending plumes of black smoke and ash into the air.

Ubisoft, the maker of video games including "Assassin's Creed" and "Just Dance," plans to build a games-themed amusement park in Malaysia.

A recent study surveyed almost 1,000 students in South Korea, where 72% of children own a smartphone by the age of 11 or 12 and spend on average 5.4 hours a day on them - as a result about 25% of children were considered addicted to smartphones. The study, to be published in 2016 found that stress was an important indicator of your likelihood to get addicted.

Asian shares fell for a third straight day on Wednesday as weak manufacturing reports from China, the United States and Europe fueled worries about slowing global growth, while the dollar took back

Every year around April, the brown-tipped stalks of Yartsa gunbu start to sprout from the countless corpses of golden ghost moth caterpillars barely buried in the topsoil of the Tibetan Plateau. As summer warmth creeps west, more stalks of this parasitic fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis, worm their way up from their host of dead hosts to the surface, whence they bulge and pop. So spreads another swarm of caterpillar-killing spores, beginning the process anew.

North Korea has ratcheted up war rhetoric against South Korea as the two nations traded artillery fire across the inter-Korea border Saturday. The South's troops are on full alert as the North's attack deadline looms.