Bangladesh has reinstalled a statue of Lady Justice after its removal in the face of Islamist hardliners

The Pakistani military says authorities have reopened the main Chaman border crossing at Afghanistan's request after shutting it down earlier this month when the two sides traded fire there, killing 15 people on both sides

Thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and supporters of an ultranationalist Buddhist group have gathered at an annual conference on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city despite being banned by the government

A statue of Lady Justice has been removed from Bangladesh's Supreme Court premises under tight security after Islamist hard-liners pressed for its removal

Opposition lawmakers and rights activists are blaming the Sri Lankan government for failing to stop a series of attacks on business places and mosques of ethnic minority Muslims over the past five weeks

Police in southern India say a 24-year-old woman has cut off the genitals of a Hindu holy man who tried to rape her and who she says has been sexually assaulting her for the past eight years

An official says a landslide has stranded about 13,000 pilgrims near a revered Hindu temple site in northern India

Authorities in Bangladesh say they've arrested 27 men on suspicion of being gay, a criminal offense in the Muslim-majority country.

A rights group and independent observers say China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA from residents of a restive region with a large Muslim population