Spokesman: First woman from Pakistan's tiny minority Hindu community poised to become lawmaker

Hong Kong's retired archbishop has warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much power to Beijing would place the country's Catholic followers in a big "birdcage"

AP Exclusive: Interviews with recent refugees indicate Myanmar's military and Buddhist residents may be controlling food in order to force the few remaining Rohingya Muslims to leave

Pakistan's media regulatory instructs news channels, radio stations and print media to refrain from promoting Valentine's Day

AP Exclusive: 'They want to erase us.' More than a dozen interviews by the AP with recent refugees show an increasing desperation among the dwindling numbers of Rohingya in Myanmar in the face of what the UN says may be a genocide.

The retired archbishop of Hong Kong has slammed the Holy See's negotiations with the Chinese government as a "catastrophe" that would bring suffering to millions of worshippers

Mercedes-Benz has apologized in China for quoting the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who is reviled by Beijing, in a social media post abroad

A Myanmar court has denied bail for two Reuters journalists charged with illegally handling government secrets. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 after police accused them of violating the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act

A Myanmar spokesman says a petrol bomb was tossed into the residential compound of the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but she was not at home

A senior cleric at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch men playing soccer