An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday 23:13 JMT (14:13 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast o ...

Two tiger cubs who recently died in a Pakistani Zoo appear to have been killed by Covid-19, officials have said.The two 11-week-old white tiger cubs who lived at Lahore Zoo died four days after beginn ...

Women in Nepal under the age of 40 will soon need the permission of their families and a local government ward office to travel abroad alone under new proposals that have been denounced by human right ...

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) - the former British territory’s own publicly-funded broadcaster, founded in 1928 and supposedly guaranteed editorial independence by charter - said it was suspending ...

India’s Supreme Court has hailed interfaith and intercaste marriages as potentially “the way forward” for society in statements that come at a time when such relationships are under legal assault in s ...

As Chinese-speaking communities across the world welcome the “Year of the Ox,” a lot seems to be missing from this year’s Chinese New Year celebration. China is trying to prevent the coronavirus outbr ...

A wedding planning company in Indonesia has come under fire for encouraging child marriages of girls as young as twelve years old, sparking outrage in the country. A criminal investigation has been la ...

An Indian excavator operator who digs up the earth and levels hillsides for a living, narrowly dodged death on Sunday by clinging onto a tree following massive flash floods in northern Uttarakhand sta ...

China celebrates its Lunar New Year on Friday, marking the start of the Spring Festival, an 11-day public holiday.The occasion is also observed in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, ...

India and China have agreed to disengage from military positions around the banks of a Himalayan lake, the first breakthrough between the two deadlocked Asian giants in nine months of standoff. But wh ...