China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report issued to counter criticism of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Islamic region

Bangladesh's cricket team has arrived home after its tour of New Zealand was abandoned following the Christchurch mosque shootings

Indian and Pakistani officials are meeting to discuss opening a visa-free border crossing to allow pilgrims to easily visit a Sikh shrine inside Pakistan

China has responded to new U.S. allegations of widespread human rights abuses with its own accusations of prejudice and interference, saying the situation of rights in the country has "never been better"

China says heavily guarded internment camps for Muslims which it calls vocational training centers will gradually disappear if there comes a time that "society does not need" them

China is defending its often-criticized policies toward Tibet 60 years after the Dalai Lama fled abroad amid abortive uprising against Chinese rule

Myanmar's Information Ministry says nine policemen were killed in an attack in the western state of Rakhine by the increasingly active Arakan Army rebel group

China has issued a protest over remarks the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom made criticizing Beijing's polices toward Muslim and Tibetan Buddhist minorities

India's top court has set up a mediation team to try to settle a land dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site where hardliners demolished a 16th century mosque

China's Communist Party chief for Tibet says the Dalai Lama has not done a "single good thing" for the region