Japan fell into a trade deficit in May, the first since January, the Finance Ministry said Monday, as renewed yen strength pressured exports.
The popular Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Gov. Raghuram Rajan will step down when his term ends in September to return to academia, he said in a letter published Saturday, ending intense speculation over his future.
Doctors treating Thailand’s ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej have performed a procedure to reduce a new build-up of water on the brain, the palace said on Sunday, the latest in a series of procedures for the 88-year-old.
Mahboob Jafari had barely seen the inside of a classroom, let alone taught in one, before he arrived in Indonesia as a refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.
Cambodia sentenced an American man to a decade in jail on Tuesday, for sexually abusing girls as young as five, the latest effort to punish foreign paedophiles in the impoverished country.
Indonesia plans to put 16 convicts to death after next month’s Muslim Eid holiday, an official said on Tuesday, confirming executions were set to resume after a hiatus.
On a “fighting with smiles” tour by ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra, selfies and symbols are the weapons of choice, showing adoring fans her family are still in Thailand’s treacherous political game – despite being hemmed in by the junta.
Two days of funeral ceremonies bidding farewell to Muhammad Ali got under way on Thursday with a Muslim prayer service in the Kentucky hometown of the beloved boxing legend and civil rights hero.
Police in Nepal arrested nearly a hundred members of a Maoist splinter group across the country on Thursday for vandalising vehicles while trying to enforce a nationwide strike.
Myanmar authorities plan to shut down a notorious border town where exotic animal parts are sold openly, an official said on Tuesday, as Southeast Asia struggles to stem a billion-dollar wildlife trade fuelled by Chinese demand.
A seven-year-old boy who survived for nearly a week after being abandoned by his parents in a forest left hospital on Tuesday, capping a 10-day drama that captivated Japan and sparked a national conversation about child discipline.
DPRK hit back at the United States on Sunday for labelling it a money-laundering state, describing it as a “nonsensical” effort that only revealed the flaws of existing sanctions pushed by Washington.
In an intensive care unit, a nurse soothes a crying baby rescued in a raid on a private Indian hospital that police suspect was selling abandoned newborns on the black market.
Indonesia's Defence Minister said yesterday that suspected communists killed in 1960s military-backed massacres "deserved to die", as a backlash mounts against efforts to resolve one of the darkest chapters in the country's history.
Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte was on Thursday accused of sexual harassment and disrespecting women after wolf whistling a female journalist on a nationally televised press conference.
A seven-year-old boy missing for six days in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan, after his parents ordered him out of their car for being naughty, was found alive on Friday, officials said.
Media groups expressed outrage on Wednesday at Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s endorsement of killing corrupt journalists, warning his comments could incite more murders in a nation already one of the world’s most dangerous for reporters.
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