The policy chief of Japan's ruling party vowed Sunday to keep paying homage at a controversial war shrine despite anger and diplomatic protests by China and South Korea.

South Korea's presidential office apologized Sunday for an “very shameful” scandal involving a former senior official who was fired midway through President Park Geun-hye's U.S. visit.

Myanmar on Sunday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees.

Indonesian police on Sunday said they had intercepted a wooden boat carrying around 80 asylum seekers from the Middle East, believed to be heading to Australia from the resort island of Bali.

Five people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said Sunday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.

Maoist rebels killed three policemen on Sunday during an overnight attack on a state-run broadcaster in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official told AFP.

Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that hem her in with 45,000 others — ethnic minorities from Myanmar and those like her who were born and raised in the Mae La refugee camp in neighboring Thailand.

Millions of Pakistanis turned out to vote in landmark elections on Saturday, defying deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state.

More than 30 foreign observers are currently in the country to monitor the Philippines' midterm elections.

Bangladeshi doctors treating a “miracle” survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing “great” and had been reunited with her family.