'Substantial progress' made on massive China trade deal that excludes US

Up to a million Uighurs and other minority groups have been put in what Beijing calls vocational ‘training centres’, according to UN-cited experts

Animal welfare group welcomes postponement, but urges China to scrap the policy altogether

Investigators’ comments shed further light on the areas under scrutiny after the tragic crash of Lion Air's Boeing 737 MAX

Each winter haze can become so extreme that levels of airborne pollutants eclipse safe limits by more than 30 times

The drop in China’s foreign exchange reserves  is the biggest monthly decline since December 2016

Babies born in India’s capital breathe the equivalent of 20 to 25 cigarettes on the first day of their lives

In condemning Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo as spies, the court ignored the prosecution's failure to prove any of the key elements of the crime, Reuters chief ...

An Indian cabinet minister vowed legal action after the man-eating animal was shot

As Hong Kong becomes increasingly concerned about Beijing’s strong-arm tactics, Badiucao’s exhibition is cancelled over safety concerns 

President also proposes that provincial governments set up bailout funds to help distressed firms

Pilot made distress call on doomed Indonesian jet's previous flight

Sexual abuse, including rape, is so widespread that many of the women interviewed by Human Rights Watch did not understand that coercive sex was unacceptable

The box’s signals were picked up on Wednesday already, but divers were unable to get to the device immediately

Weaker Chinese and regional data raise the risk that the global economy is edging towards a synchronised slowdown

Sliding cocoa supply from the country has forced companies, such as Mars, to open a WiFi café with pictures about cocoa farming, to attract teenagers

Rescue workers hold little hope of finding any survivors as divers and war ships scour the Java Sea where the aircraft went down