India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised a controversial citizenship bill pending in Parliament at a rally in West Bengal state, kick-starting his Hindu nationalist party's campaign to retain power in general elections due by May

Pakistan's top court upholds acquittal of Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, in blow to radical Islamists who had called for her death

The Latest: Senior leader of radical Pakistani Islamist party slams acquittal of Christian woman in blasphemy case

The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for charges of blasphemy has vowed to secure her freedom when the country's Supreme Court meets Tuesday to reconsider an acquittal announced last year

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison more than three years after he was detained in a sweeping crackdown on the legal profession

A U.N. human rights envoy says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees won't be able to return to Myanmar soon because safety threats remain in the Buddhist-majority nation

Police in northeastern India say they have arrested 61 Rohingya Muslims this week amid reports that more than 1,300 have recently crossed the border into Bangladesh

Police in Nepal are searching for five missing followers of a spiritual leader who is believed by devotees to be a reincarnation of Buddha

Myanmar's military has announced that the Arakan Army, a Buddhist rebel group in Rakhine state, has been classified a terrorist organization after mounting a flurry of recent attacks

India's Supreme Court has paved the way for the reopening of Mumbai's dance bars, which had been a nightlife staple in the country's entertainment capital until they were outlawed six years ago