Bottled water a huge market in India where most groundwater is contaminated

Thirteen people died when a wall collapsed on Wednesday, while five people, including two women, were killed elsewhere in the city

Anutin received 293 votes from newly seated lawmakers to win the premiership, with his progressive rival Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut gaining 119 and 86 MPs abstaining

Families and friends of people undergoing treatment at a rehab centre in the Afghan capital Kabul searched for their loved ones yesterday, two days after it was bombed by Pakistan in the deadliest incident in the months-long conflict between the neighbours.

Indian investigators have arrested seven foreigners, including six Ukrainians and an American, on suspicion of illegally crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to train armed militia groups, the public radio broadcaster reported yesterday.

More than 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in the Afghanistan capital Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said yesterday.

A fire at a government-run hospital in eastern India killed at least 10 critically ill patients who were admitted in the trauma care unit, officials said yesterday.

Myanmar’s parliament convened yesterday for the first time since a coup five years ago, in one of the final steps in a nominal return to democracy where its powerful military retains tight control.

Twenty Thai crew members of a cargo ship attacked in the crucial Strait of Hormuz arrived in Thailand yesterday, with three of their colleagues still stranded on the vessel in the Gulf.

Japan said Monday it was "not considering" maritime security operations after US President Donald Trump called for other countries to send warships to help protect the Strait of Hormuz

Nepal has started selling half-filled cooking gas cylinders to curb hoarding and panic buying, officials said yesterday, following import disruptions caused by the Middle East conflict.

India will hold off on signing a trade deal with the US for several months, four Indian sources said, as fresh investigations by President Donald Trump’s administration into what it calls excess industrial capacity ‌among trading partners add new friction after an early understanding last month.

Afghan authorities said yesterday that Pakistan attacks on Kabul and border provinces killed four people in the capital and two in the east, the latest deadly clashes in the long-running conflict.

The Taliban government said yesterday that three civilians were killed in southeastern Afghanistan when Pakistani forces fired mortars and artillery across the countries’ shared border.

War uncertainty takes toll on Asia travel and tourism

President Donald Trump in September signed an executive order that created the blacklist, similar to designations by the United States on terrorism

Japan said yesterday that Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai had no contact with government officials during a weekend visit in which he watched a baseball game in Tokyo.

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah unseated former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency, Election Commission data showed Saturday, with his party also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.

Balendra Shah looked set to win by a landslide in parliamentary polls, but with counting still far to go

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border yesterday as the UN said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.