Taxi driver becomes Twitter star

Eight popular Bangladeshi bloggers black out their websites as part of a 24-hour protest over the arrests of four online writers.

A Nato air strike in eastern Ghazni province kills four Afghan policemen and a civilian, Afghan officials say.

Media in China are discussing the bird flu outbreak, North Korea, the Tomb-Sweeping Festival and mourning for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

The Bank of Japan says it will hugely expand money supply in a policy shift, as it tries to stimulate growth in the world’s third-largest economy.

India’s Olympics medal winning boxer Vijender Singh takes a dope test after charges that he took heroin procured from alleged drug smugglers – charges the boxer denies.

Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong have been unable to lay their dead relatives to rest because of a lack of space.

North and South Korea have technically been at war since the 1950s. Should we really be worried about the current round of sabre-rattling?

A court in China jails an elderly man for a murder committed during the Cultural Revolution after a trial which sparked fierce debate online.

The US will defend itself and its “treaty ally” South Korea in the face of North Korean threats, Secretary of State John Kerry says.

Can the US break North Korea’s war rhetoric cycle?