A police officer in Myanmar who testified that he was ordered to help entrap two Reuters journalists investigating abuses by security forces against the Muslim Rohingya minority has been punished unde...

A Malaysian court has sentenced a Danish citizen to a week in jail after he pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing false information, the first person to be punished under a controversial anti-fake ...

Live and unfiltered: Kim Jong Un's historic border crossing captivates South Koreans unaccustomed to seeing the leader of rival North Korea in anything but heavily edited footage...

China says its recent military exercises are a warning to those on self-ruling Taiwan who would move toward formal independence from Beijing...

Students have launched a petition against China's Peking University amid a rare public outcry against the elite school's handling of a decades-old alleged rape case...

Japan's vice finance minister resigned over sexual harassment allegations in the latest embarrassment for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government...

North and South Korea have agreed to allow live television broadcasts for parts of the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in next week...

One of China's top social networking sites has announced that it will no longer be "cleaning up" content related to homosexuality following strong online opposition to the plan...

Ohtani's electrifying start to MLB career a big hit in Japan where his games are shown live in the morning by national broadcaster NHK...

Deaths from drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Indonesia have surpassed 100 this month, police said as they vowed a "scorched earth" crackdown on the makers and distributors of black-market liquor...