Robert Chan lit his first cigarette aged 18. He quickly became hooked, smoking 15 a day for more than a decade.

The NBA has abruptly called off a hotly anticipated press event for the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai, the latest attempt to contain what is fast becoming a political crisis after a team official tweeted support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

The mother of seven of the eight children found dead in a house in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said Saturday morning.

President Barack Obama touched down in India on Sunday for truncated state visit that has officials claiming a new era in U.S.-India relations is dawning.

Terrorists behind the Pakistan school massacre say it was revenge for the killing of its own children -- but the group is being pressed by defections to ISIS.

Profiles of the two victims killed in the Sydney cafe siege

As Pakistan starts three days of mourning, horrifying details emerge about a massacre that left 145 people dead, most of them children.

Impact of financial turmoil on Shanghai -- where money rules supreme.

Thailand has confirmed its first case of MERS, representing a further spread of the deadly respiratory disease from the Middle East to eastern Asia, Thai Public Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin said Thursday.

• Pollution in China falls during Covid-19 outbreak • India holds nationwide vigil amid crisis

The seemingly endless cycle of North Korean provocation, international condemnation and little change is set to be broken, writes Gordon Flake.

British artist David Hockney smashed records last year when his "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at auction in New York for $90 million.

Shanghai residents passing through the city's eastern Huangpu district in October might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a "walking" building.

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for an inquiry into a suspected mass HIV infection in a remote village in northwestern Battambang province.

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