Asia news headlines

Warrick Alston and his wife Aime went to the Philippines to holiday and help poverty-stricken locals for a month in February last year. They're still stuck there.

Two Australian journalists spent weeks interviewing Asia's most notorious killer; Charles Sobhraj after his arrest. One said it was impossible not to fall under his spell.

While the NSW Baby Bundle boasts money value for new parents, similar initiatives have more lifesaving inspiration.

Outbreak follows weeks of concern over slow vaccine uptake.

Police and border force officials are investigating after close to $100 million worth of the drug ice was allegedly found concealed in electric barbecue grills and water heaters.

Two climbers have reportedly died on Mount Everest in the first fatalities of the season.

India health authorities are pleading with the public not to cover themselves in cow poo, under the false belief it will protect from coronavirus.

Coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia and the Pacific with over 5.9 million new confirmed infections in the past two weeks, more than in all other regions combined.

Extreme weather is being blamed for a terrifying incident that left one tourist stranded on a 260-metre-high glass-bottomed suspension bridge in northeast China.

The publication branded the response by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government "inexcusable".

A large Chinese rocket has finally made impact on earth, landing in the Indian Ocean, close to Maldives.

Australian police would help authorities in the Maldives investigate an explosion that wounded former leader Mohamed Nasheed, officials said.

Australia is in danger of being left with a critical "submarine capability gap" in a future Asia Pacific conflict, a Senator and naval veteran has warned.

As India's COVID-19 crisis tipped past breaking point last month, dozens of countries pledged critical aid.

An underworld dispute is believed to be behind a bizarre attack on a Taiwanese eatery that saw more than a thousand cockroaches tossed over the restaurant's floor.

The shipping container raised suspicions as soon as it arrived in remote northwestern Laos last July.

As India continues to struggle with coronavirus infections, Europe and the US are easing restrictions as they get a handle on the situation locally.

India recorded a slight drop in new infections yesterday with 392,488 from a high of 401,993 in the previous 24 hours.

India has reported another 401,993 new coronavirus cases for the previous 24 hours -- the first time the country has surpassed 400,000 cases in a single day.

India's COVID-19 crisis continues to spiral further out of control, with thousands dying every day amid a crumbling healthcare system.

India has reported 386,452 new infections in the past 24 hours, marking yet another global record for the highest single-day case count.

A 28-year-old sumo wrestler has died, a month after suffering a serious head injury during a bout.

Samsung’s founding family will donate tens of thousands of rare artworks, including Picassos and Dalis, and give hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research to help them pay a massive inheritance tax following last year’s death of chairman Lee Kun-Hee.

Flights from India to Australia are likely to resume within weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

China offered Covid aid to India while US dragged its feet, but Delhi isn't that keen

A magnitude 6 earthquake has struck the state of Assam in India, the US Geological Survey has reported.

Australia must be prepared to face China's rising military power without relying on its 70-year US alliance, a security expert has warned.

In September 2020, journalist Michael Smith was evacuated from Shanghai by the Australian government after China's secret police came knocking late one night to his laneway house. The Australian Financial Review China correspondent, and author of The Last Correspondent, had another hairy moment two years earlier in China while covering North Korea.

Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low.

A fleet of British warships and military aircraft billed as the "largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the UK in a generation" will depart next month for visits to India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, in a display of Britain's ambition to exert a much stronger presence in Asia.

Southeast Asian leaders demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Myanmar in an emergency summit on Saturday with its top general and coup leader, Indonesia's president said.

The children, aged between six and 17, were removed from harm after an investigation between the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila.

Japan's latest COVID-19 resurgence, fueled by a new, more contagious variant detected earlier in Britain, has spread rapidly across the country.

Chinese ships have maintained a presence in waters off a disputed South China Sea reef for up to two years, according to a US think tank.

The Australian Government has reduced direct flights from India after record-breaking coronavirus infection rate.

A Chinese developer claims it has created a prototype for a stealth drone which could rival the US Air Force B-21 Raider.

India is seeing its largest surge of the pandemic so far and watching its chronically underfunded health system crumble.

Philippines leader Roberto Duterte risks making his country "another one of China's satellites" with his silence over Beijing's incursion in the South China Sea.

Nine of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy advocates were sentenced to jail terms Friday for organising a march during the 2019 anti-government protests that triggered an overwhelming crackdown from Beijing.

China’s economic growth surged to 18.3 per cent over a year ago in the first quarter of 2021 after factory and consumer activity returned largely to normal following the coronavirus pandemic.

They've been dubbed China's "Little Blue Men," an allegedly Beijing-controlled maritime militia that analysts say could be hundreds of boats and thousands of crew members strong.

The Philippine government summoned the Chinese ambassador to press its demand for Chinese vessels to immediately leave a reef claimed by Manila in the South China Sea.

Japan's government has decided to start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years.

Former defence minister Christopher Pyne has warned that Australia is at risk of being dragged into a war with China amid rising tensions around Taiwan.

While Chinese trade sanctions have cost Australian exporters millions of dollars, the impact on businesses is far from crippling, according to one expert.

The story of Bhutan's vaccination campaign is nearly finished — just 16 days after it began.

In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for waging another “arduous march” to fight severe economic difficulties, for the first time comparing them to a 1990s famine that killed hundreds of thousands.

The country is no facing a new wave of the pandemic after the variant was found in dozens of blood samples.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the "worst-ever situation" as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party during a major political conference in Pyongyang.