Australian police have used force to end a student protest against job and budget cuts in the University of Sydney.

Nepalese police says the death toll from Saturday's flash floods, which swept away a village near a Himalayan resort in western Nepal, could climb to 60.

Authorities in Thailand are investigating a powerful blaze at a chemical factory in the eastern province of Rayong, which killed 12 people and wounded at least 100 others.

At least 14 people have been killed and dozens of others are missing after flash floods swept away a village near a Himalayan resort in Nepal, police says.

Japan is set to shut down its last operating nuclear reactor, leaving the energy-hungry country without nuclear power after almost four decades.

A recent study by the United Nations program on HIV/AIDS shows that Cambodian migrants are the most vulnerable in the six provinces most affected by HIV in Thailand, Press TV reports.

Employers and business owners in Malaysia have expressed concern over the government’s plan to embark on a minimum wage hike in the Southeast Asian country, Press TV reports.

Australia has announced that it will delay purchasing 12 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets for two years as part of AUD-4.1-billion (USD-4.2-billion) spending cuts aimed at ending a run of four years of budget deficits.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Western states to lift sanctions against Myanmar after he supported the ongoing reforms in the south Asian country.

Malaysian police have clashed with tens of thousands of protesters demanding free and fair elections, in one of the largest rallies in the country in recent years.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has registered an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale in Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean.

Thousands of people have staged a protest rally in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to call for electoral reforms and fair elections.

The United States is set to pull 9,000 of its troops out of Japan in an effort to ease tensions with its East Asian ally over the massive American military presence in the country, despite a lingering fierce opposition by the Japanese.

The Philippines and the United States have conducted a joint military exercise in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, as tensions escalate between Manila and Beijing.

At least 11 soldiers and a civilian have been killed in an ambush by leftist rebels in a northern village in Ifugao Province in the Philippines.

Armenians around the world have marked the 97th anniversary of the alleged massacre of their ancestors during World War I.

A group of Japanese hunger strikers are protesting in Tokyo against the government’s plan to restart two nuclear reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Japan’s western Fukui province.

Former guerilla fighter and Defense Chief of East Timor Jose Maria de Vasconcelos has been officially named the new president of the Far Eastern Pacific country.

Thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to call for democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners.

At least one person has been killed and tens of others injured after twin massive explosions hit a chemical plant in western Japan.

Australia’s parliament speaker Peter Slipper has received calls to step down after being linked to a sex scandal involving a former male staffer.

Taiwan is planning to clinch an arms deal with the United States and buy four warships as part of efforts to boost the island nation’s military in face of any ‘threats’ from China.

The Japanese government says it will waive USD 3.7 billion of Myanmar’s debt as a move to express its support for the country’s democratic and economic reforms.

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has rocked eastern Indonesia, 74 miles southeast of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

A report by the National Food Institute of Thailand says the government’s plan to embark on a minimum wage hike has had a negative effect on the production costs in the country’s food industry, Press TV reports.

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale has struck off the coast of Honshu Island, eastern Japan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, damage or a tsunami warning.

Australian anti-war activists have called for the country to end its close military alliance with the United States in response to the arrival of 200 US Marines at a military base in Australia, Press TV reports.

The Malaysian government has repealed the country’s controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) which legalized indefinite detention without trial, Press TV reports.

In East Timor, electoral officials have begun counting votes of the second round of the Asian country’s presidential election.

Students in the Philippines have staged an anti-American rally to protest the ongoing joint military drills by US and Philippine troops in the South China Sea.

The US and Philippines have begun their annual joint military maneuvers code-named ‘Balikatan’ near South China Sea amid a standoff between Filipino and Chinese naval forces at Scarborough Shoal.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has struck the Sunda Strait, located between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

Tensions between Jakarta and Riyadh continue to escalate following the execution of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia last year, Press TV reports.

Thousands of American and Pilipino forces are set to carry out joint military drills amid heightened tensions between the Philippines and China over a disputed island chain.

Thailand’s Commerce Ministry has announced new measures in an attempt to fight piracy and observe intellectual property rights in the Southeast Asian country, Press TV reports.

Indonesian officials say five people died and at least seven were injured after two powerful earthquakes struck about two hours apart off the coast of Sumatra a day earlier.

Thailand police say gunmen killed three Muslims in a mosque in the southern province of Pattani Wednesday night.

China and the Philippines have agreed to resolve a dangerous naval standoff in the South China Sea diplomatically, but neither side is willing to back off from their positions.

A tsunami warning has been called off after a powerful earthquake and its aftershock hit the western coast of Sumatra earlier in the day.

An 8.7-magnitude earthquake has hit waters off Indonesia, triggering regional tsunami alerts, Indonesian and US monitors say.