A charming, yet revolutionary television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas, as local students are being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in Dhaka via the Internet.
Terror attacks on polio vaccination workers and their guards in Pakistan are hindering the government's efforts to eradicate poliovirus which still exists in the country today.
Singapore scientists said on Monday that they have identified a new gene, which is strongly associated with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a highly aggressive cancer that often has early relapse and metastasis following chemotherapy.
A market to directly trade currencies of South Korea and China, rather than brokering the two currencies with the U.S. dollar, was opened here in Seoul Monday, taking its first step toward Chinese yuan's internationalization efforts in Northeast Asia.
For a year or so, drinking a cup of tea at leisure has gradually become a new fashion in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and a number of teahouses sprang up around the capital city of Pyongyang.
New Zealand exports to China's Taiwan have risen by more than 20 percent in the year since a two- way free trade agreement, the New Zealand government announced Monday.
Young Australians are concerned their career dreams for the future may be out of reach, according to the country's biggest annual poll of young people that was released on Monday.
Nepal's major parties, which were involved in the dispute over constitution drafting, have resumed negotiations on the key contentious issues of new constitution, cross-party leaders said on Sunday.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's dwindling popularity among Australian voters is being blamed for the electoral disaster of his Coalition colleagues in Victoria at the weekend.
Myanmar continued efforts to end recruitment of minors in military service, releasing 80 more child soldiers from military services and sending them back to their homes in its latest move.
The Kuomintang Party won six county and city chief seats in Taiwan's biggest-ever local elections held Saturday, while the opposition Democratic Progressive Party landed 13 seats, according to the island's electoral authorities.
As official campaign for Japan's general election on Dec. 14 is going to kick off quickly, major political parties here have unveiled their manifestos for the upcoming poll, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies dubbed Abenomics being targeted by opposition camp which eyes to terminate Abe's administration.
The 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit ended here Thursday with mixed results highlighting the challenges the bloc faces in its integration process.
Two explosions followed by gun fires shocked the diplomat enclave of Wazir Akbar Khan area in Kabul city Thursday night, police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pledged a decisive commitment to tackle the devastating forest fire problem in Sumatra, planning to strengthen legal basis to protect the forest and peatland areas.
Online marketplace Carousell, a Singapore-based start-up, has partnered with venture capital Sequoia India and secured 6 million U.S. dollars in series A funding, it said on Thursday.
A Singapore restaurant is thinking of launching autonomous flying robots to do some waiters' work in one of its outlets by the end of next year, local media reported on Thursday.
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