Karishma Vyas is the ABC's Asia editor.
She's an Emmy Award-winning and Peabody-nominated journalist, formerly working for the American Broadcasting Corporation, Al Jazeera English and Vice News in news and documentary production.
She has over 20 years of international reporting experience, working and living in Thailand, the Philippines, India, Malaysia and the US before joining the ABC.
The United States has been holding secretive talks with a regime it has accused of genocide, and experts believe it could come down to rare earths.
Australian Simon Carman has agreed to plead guilty to concealing a corpse, one of four charges laid against him in the trial over teenager Tunchanok Donhomla's alleged murder in Thailand.
Chaos erupts in India's capital New Delhi as police detained hundreds of protesters during demonstrations over the Election Commission's move to drop some 130 million names from the voter list.
In June, the tropical holiday hub of Pattaya in Thailand made international headlines after the naked body of a Thai teenager was found inside a suitcase.
It's a holiday hotspot drawing millions of tourists a year but the death of a teenage girl has highlighted the dangers of Pattaya's sex industry.
An Australian man accused of murdering a Thai teenager in the holiday hub of Pattaya has appeared in court to enter a plea of not guilty to all charges.
Simon Carman, the Australian man accused of murdering Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla in June, is denied bail after prosecutors argued he could try to flee the country.
Simon Peter Carman, the Australian man charged with murdering Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla, says he acted in self-defence to stop her from stabbing him.
Thai police tell the ABC they have collected "100 per cent of the evidence" and will conclude their investigation this week.
A video analysis of an explosive pub fire in Thailand, which killed 30 people, appears to show a flashover "point of no return" that would have made evacuation nearly impossible, an expert says.
The funeral procession for the late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is continuing in Tehran.
A week-long funeral ceremony is underway for Iran's former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, four months after he was killed in a US-Israel airstrike.
Millions of Iranians have gathered in Tehran as the country begins a week of funeral ceremonies for former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran's 86 year-old Supreme Leader was killed on the very first day of the US and Israeli war on February 28th.
For decades the Islamic republic has been using its "main enemy" America to distract from its repressive regime, analysts say. But the recent truce with Donald Trump could change that.
As we journey into the heart of Iran, we meet the women who support the clerics and want revenge on the man who killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Outside the Tehran compound that was home to now-dead Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, hundreds of his supporters gather every night to mourn the only leader many of them have ever known.
While on assignment inside Iran, our reporter asked a foreign ministry official about the regime's plan for the Strait of Hormuz. The spokesperson responded that "there is no toll" but also signalled crossing the strait will not be entirely free.
As Donald Trump says a peace deal with Iran could be days away, ABC Correspondent Karishma Vyas gets rare access to Iran.
Tens of thousands of small and commercial fishing vessels in Thailand are stranded on shore, no longer able to afford diesel, which has more than doubled in price since the Iran war began.
Topic: Fishing and Aquaculture Industry
Three people are unaccounted for after a merchant ship, trying to escape the war zone via the Strait of Hormuz, was bombed by Iran. Their loved ones are hoping against hope.
On Iraq's border with Iran, troops are amassing as Iranian Kurds from across the globe gather to revolt after 47 years of being the victims of an oppressive and cruel regime.
Pakistan's declaration of an "open war" with the Afghan Taliban sounds dangerous, but analysts say neither side has the capacity to win.
South-East Asia's second-largest economy went to the polls on Sunday in a tight race between conservatives aligned with the military and the monarchy, and progressive elements represented by the reform-driven People's Party.
As Thailand prepares to head to the polls, voters remain wary that in their version of democracy, the party they vote for is not always the one that takes power.
