In a tiny Tokyo restaurant filled with the smell of Nepalese dumplings, Budhathoki Samjhana surveys the business she built from scratch but may now have to give up as Japan tightens visa rules

Mass casualty accidents are common at Myanmar's mines -- particularly in monsoon season, when rains destabilise sites where workers have dug unsafe shafts or piled up precarious waste heaps

Pakistan’s government has ordered law enforcement nationwide to arrest Afghan citizens without visas from July 10, according to a directive seen by AFP yesterday, part of an intensifying deportation drive.

The Taliban government said the airstrikes hit three eastern provinces, killing 36 civilians and wounding 163

Three Pakistani Rangers were killed in a terror attack in the southern megacity Karachi on Saturday evening, the country's military said, following an explosion and heavy gunfire

A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing's tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said on Saturday

Applications to open on June 28 through five visa centres

Schools forced to temporarily close

Two minors in custody after gunfire at San Jose National High School; 13 others injured

China imposed export controls on 10 US companies involved in defence and rare earths mining in response to Washington’s blacklist of Chinese firms, Beijing said yesterday.

Chinese authorities have launched an investigation after local media reported that a rash-causing irritant had been found in nappies from brands including Huggies, Beijing’s market watchdog said yesterday.

A red carpet was rolled out as Prime Minister Tarique Rahman arrived in China on Monday from Kuala Lumpur concluding his two-day official visit to Malaysia.

The rebel faction within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has announced that it has “removed” Mamata Banerjee as the party’s chairperson and installed a parallel leadership structure.

The 10 entities include Aveox, which holds aerospace defence contracts with the US military, and Oshkosh Defense, which produces military vehicle fleets

A major Kolkata thoroughfare has become the latest flashpoint in India’s contest over history and political memory.

Twin roadside blasts killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Saturday.

Three people injured in attacks in Bannu district

An Indian court has rejected an appeal by the Telegram social media app against a temporary ban.

Afghanistan said yesterday it had launched airstrikes on hideouts of militants in two Pakistani provinces, an assertion swiftly rejected by Islamabad, months after the neighbours engaged in their worst conflict in years.

Russia renewed its strikes on Ukraine yesterday, killing three people including an eight-year-old girl, Ukrainian officials said.