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How democratic crusader came unstuck in the Maldives

New Maldives President Mohammed Waheed Hassan vows to uphold the rule of law following the dramatic resignation of Mohamed Nasheed.

Rescue workers in Pakistan have found a 65-year-old woman alive in the rubble of a Lahore factory, 31 hours after the building collapsed.

Time to learn from Asia, says Mahathir Mohamed

At least five Afghan policemen are poisoned and then shot dead at a checkpoint in the southern city of Kandahar, intelligence officials say.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits China for talks focussing on oil sales, energy and other economic ties.

A rogue female tiger with cubs is believed to have killed eight people in a spate of attacks that has terrorised villagers in south-west Bangladesh.

Crucial assembly elections are set to get under way in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigns after weeks of demonstrations and a mutiny by some police officers.

Five workers are missing after an undersea tunnel collapses at one of Japan's biggest oil refineries, emergency services say.

A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan last month has been freed and flown to Kenya, officials from both countries say.

Kabul's mayor sets up a mobile donation fund to collect money in order to save the city's historical sites.

Search and rescue teams look for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving dozens dead or missing.

Rescuers who worked overnight on Monday are still frantically trying to remove debris from a factory that collapsed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

A motion is tabled in the UK Parliament expressing concern that the Jarawa tribe in India's Andaman Islands is being treated like a "human safari".

The complex challenges facing the Indian state

India's economic growth is likely to dip below 7% for the 2011-12 financial year, new government statistics show.

India sets out plans to allow aviation firms to import jet fuel directly, part of a package to bolster the ailing air industry.

The body of a Chinese worker who fled a camp in Sudan when rebels attacked has been found, says China, while 29 kidnapped workers are still missing.

A panel appointed by India's Supreme Court recommends that the licences of as many as 49 iron ore miners should be cancelled.