The year 2024 is expected to be one of prosperity for Asia with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expecting the region to maintain its momentum in delivering two-thirds to global growth.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts.

Amid the economic crisis in China, an estimated 233 home developers filed for bankruptcy last year, Taiwan News reported quoting the China Real Estate Association.

A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets.

The issue of US agricultural land being bought by the Chinese has hit national headlines in United States after the government watch dog recently pointed out in a report. Even as Chinese billionaire, Tian Quaichen, recently became the second biggest

India and France have agreed to further deepen the integration between the two countries’ defence industrial sectors and to work together to identify opportunities for co-design, co-development and co-production.

Police in Thailand have arrested a woman whose pet lion was pictured going on a joyride in the streets of Pattaya.

Moscow and New Delhi on Wednesday held detailed talks on reviving the Eastern Maritime Corridor (EMC) connecting Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and Chennai on India’s eastern coast.

Alabama carried out the first American execution using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, killing a convicted murderer whose jury had voted to spare his life and opening a new frontier in how states execute death row prisoners.

BBC: The US aviation regulator says it will allow Boeing’s 737 Max 9 jets to resume flying after inspections are completed.

The Philippines has again condemned China’s coastguard for its latest “provocative action” against Filipino fishermen in the South China Sea, shortly after the two nations agreed to take additional steps to manage tensions in the disputed water

The recent presidential election in Taiwan has rekindled tensions between China and the United States, bringing to the forefront longstanding geopolitical complexities.

At least 39 people have been killed and nine injured in a fire that started in the basement of a shop in the Chinese city of Xinyu.

Activists accused China of seeking to ’’erase’’ Tibetan cultural and religious identities, urging a review of Beijing’s rights record at the UN on Tuesday to focus on its ’’cultural genocide’’ in the region.

A Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane has crashed in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis on Monday arrived in New Delhi on a five-day visit to India to advance India-UN ties.

There was an ’’alarming’’ 30-fold increase in measles cases in Europe last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

2023 witnessed a significant shift in global public perception of China, with negative sentiment on the rise across numerous countries. This trend, driven by a complex interplay of geopolitical tensions, human rights concerns, and economic anxieties,

Hateful and disturbing content targeting religious minorities has started circulating in Pakistan, raising concerns ahead of the February 8 general elections, The News International reported.

The US and UK have conducted a fresh series of joint air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

CNN: Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia to become China’s largest oil supplier in 2023, according to the latest Chinese customs data.

China’s population witnessed a decline of two million people in 2023, marking the second consecutive annual decrease.

At least 21 people, including school students, were killed in two separate fire incidents in China, local authorities said on Saturday. In the first accident, 13 students were confirmed killed in a fire that took place at the Yingcai School in Henan

A protester violently grabbed Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Saturday during an event in the southern Ayacucho region, where 10 people were killed in mass anti-government demonstrations more than a year ago.

Tehran has vowed to carry out revenge attacks against Israel after a missile strike yesterday flattened a building used as a base of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards in Damascus, killing five Guards and an unspecified number of Syrian troops.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani had a telephonic conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Wednesday and said that the airstrikes in Balochistan have caused serious damage to bilateral ties between the two cou

A boat carrying a school group capsized in a lake in western India on Thursday, drowning 15 students and one teacher, fire service officials said.

The idyllic landscapes and bustling economies of several countries have become unwitting playgrounds for a burgeoning phenomenon - cross-border financial scams perpetrated by Chinese nationals on tourist visas.

India is eyeing $100 billion in annual foreign direct investment (FDI) “in the next few years”, its IT minister said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to attract investors ahead of a reelection bid.

China’s troubled property market ended last year with the worst declines in new home prices in nearly nine years, despite government efforts to prop up the sector that was once a key driver of the world’s second largest economy.