The Dalai Lama met Buddhist worshippers yesterday during a four-day visit to Mongolia, despite Beijing’s strident demand that he be barred from entering the country.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Seoul yesterday for the fourth in a weekly series of mass protests urging President Park Geun-hye to resign over a corruption scandal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the failure to achieve 100% literacy rate in Bangladesh even after its 45 years of independence is very much disgraceful.

Bangladesh and India are planning to introduce ‘short stay visas’ for people living in border areas of the two countries to help them meet their relatives and trade across the border.

Donald Trump yesterday defended his decision to settle lawsuits over his Trump University real estate seminars for $25mn, saying he does not have time to fight the fraud cases in court now that he is headed to the White House.

2001 Nobel laureate V S Naipaul, centre, inaugurating the annual literature festival in Dhaka.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said Sri Lanka’s macroeconomic and financial conditions have begun to stabilise and the island nation’s performance under its $1.5bn loan programme is satisfactory.

India’s demonetisation of high-value currency has hit hard the tens of thousands of Nepali migrant workers employed in India...

For Indian farmer Buddha Singh, who works a small plot of land in the village of Bajna south of New Delhi, the government's decision to abolish 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes to crush the shadow economy could hardly have come at a worse time.

Security guards shot dead on Saturday a man who was trying to detonate a bomb at a camp in northeastern Nigeria for people displaced during a seven-year insurgency waged by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

An original drawing from the popular Tintin adventure "Explorers on the Moon" sold for a record 1.55 million euros at a Paris auction on Saturday, auction house Artcurial announced.

Moscow has sought an explanation from the Swiss government after Swiss fighter jets flew close to a Russian government airliner enroute to Peru for the APEC summit.