Accommodating another 16 teams would vastly complicate Qatar’s task in preparing for the World Cup
​Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested by anti-corruption investigators on Tuesday according to a security source
Celebrated Italian rider Marco Simoncelli has died after a horror crash that saw the Malaysian MotoGP at Sepang cancelled.
Pirates kidnapped a record number of seafarers in 2010 in an "alarming" escalation of the crisis centred on Somalia, a maritime watchdog says.
Campaigning kicks off in a critical by-election that will test the government’s popularity since disastrous losses in national polls last year
Malaysian Proton’s highly publicised campaign to hike sales appears to have hit a road block, with drivers snubbing the national carmaker.
Indonesian police on Thursday pledged to beef up security in Bali after last weekend’s deadly bomb blasts, as they hunted for leads in the attacks blamed on Islamic militants. The promise came amid concern about visitors returning to the tourism-dependent island, hit on Saturday for the second time in three years by deadly extremist attacks.