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Asia
Philippines flags ‘harassment’ by Chinese vessels ahead...
Recent clashes between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea have raised...
Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community
The South Asian nation has, since 2013, officially allowed members of the hijra...
Taiwan earthquake: The mountain 'rained rocks like bullets'...
Rescuers in Taiwan are working to reach more than 600 stranded people, a day after...
Taiwan: Rescue efforts continue after 900 injured in earthquake
Rescue efforts are under way in Taiwan after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the...
Taiwan: Rescue efforts continue after earthquake
Rescue efforts are taking place in Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck off...
China's ageing population: A demographic crisis is unfolding...
Ask 72-year-old farmer Huanchun Cao about his pension and he reacts with a throaty...
Anti-Assad Syrians lead protests against prison torture...
Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham, formed out of a group with former ties to al-Qaeda, is accused...
The high cost of being a whistleblower in China
While the right to report wrongdoing is recognised in the Chinese constitution,...
Pakistan court suspends Imran Khan’s prison sentence in...
Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were each handed a 14-year sentence in the case in...
Pakistan to investigate army’s meddling in judiciary, law...
Pakistan will probe accusations by High Court judges of intimidation by the country’s...
March of ‘terror’: Pakistan grapples with deadly attacks...
Attacks on strategic facilities linked to China surge, as the killings of Chinese...
At JNU, student ‘flame flickers’ against India’s Modi before...
Will the polls at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University after a four-year hiatus...
China former football chief sentenced to life for bribery
A former president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), Chen Xuyuan, has been...
North Korea censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers on BBC gardening...
North Korea is known to illegally stream western TV shows including Premier League...
India says new law saves persecuted refugees. Rohingya...
As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia through the law,...