Tsunami alerts across the Pacific are being downgraded after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, ...

The geopolitical impact of the Arab state on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

A tsunami has hit areas of Russia's Kuril Islands and Japan's northern island of Hokkaido after a 8.8-magnitude quake off ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

South-East Asia’s proximity to China and other large economies (such as Australia, Japan and India) makes it an ideal base to ...

VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...

The acrimonious dispute, which flared into violence last week, concerns much more than a few square kilometers of rugged ...

The Asian monsoon is one of the world's most influential climate systems, directly impacting the weather, water resources, ...

Both countries' foreign ministers agreed that no other country should be involved in the issue, Mohamad Hasan said.

An Argentine man sued Google after his bare buttocks were captured on Street View outside his home in 2017. The image spread online, causing humiliation.

There has been a dramatic escalation in a long-running border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.  On July 23, five Thai soldiers from a border patrol unit in Ubon Ratchathani province were ...

The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five in the 1960s and 3.3 in 1990, according to the ...