CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Wayne Chang and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Taoyuan, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport became the scene of a simulated…

Story by Reuters (CNN) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech on Wednesday he would step down, and that his son Hun Manet would…

By Wayne Chang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Two Taiwan police officers are under investigation after a botched sting operation…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A powerful typhoon brought widespread flooding and landslides to the Philippines on Wednesday, killing at…

By Simone McCarthy Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s foreign minister Qin Gang was dramatically ousted on Tuesday after a prolonged absence from…

By Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — US-born basketball player Kyle Anderson will represent China at next month’s FIBA World Cup after obtaining…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China and Russia are both sending high level delegations to North Korea this week in a rare…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A “conversation has commenced” with North Korea over US Army Pvt. Travis King,…

By Jessie Yeung, Gene Norman and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A powerful storm sweeping across the Pacific Ocean in the direction of…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least eleven people are dead after the roof of a school gymnasium collapsed during a student…

By Heather Chen, Teele Rebane and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — A music festival in Malaysia has been canceled after the lead singer of British band…

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — One of the world’s longest serving leaders is looking to extend his iron fisted rule, running another tightly…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war.…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese engineers on Thursday broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed Henry Kissinger as an “old friend” during a meeting with the…

By Yoonjung Seo and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Seoul (CNN) — New details have emerged about a US soldier who crossed into North Korea on Tuesday –…

By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — China will follow its own path to cut carbon emissions, leader Xi Jinping vowed Tuesday, as US climate envoy John…

By Kocha Olarn and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s parliament blocked the prime ministerial nomination of the winner of May’s…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — For the first time in decades a US soldier is believed to be in North Korean custody. That is a…

By Heather Chen and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — Devastating floods causing havoc across northern India have reached the iconic Taj Mahal in a…

By Marc Stewart, Yoonjung Seo and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — North Korea has launched two short-range ballistic missiles, which landed…

By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Gawon Bae, Brad Lendon, Rob Picheta, Kevin Liptak, Oren Liebermann and Simone McCarthy, CNN Seoul, South Korea…

By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — For the first time in decades, a nuclear capable US Navy ballistic…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the Philippine government to block an…

By Heather Chen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world’s largest and most populous continent is reckoning with the deadly effects of extreme summer…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang has not been seen in public for three weeks, an unusually long absence…

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A record 16 Chinese warships were spotted in waters around Taiwan in a 24-hour period late last week, the…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Before she left North Korea, the woman known as “C” had caught glimpses of…

By Irene Nasser, Chris Lau and Jake Kwon, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Twenty six people have died and thousands have evacuated their homes in South…

By Jessie Yeung and Candice Zhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese officials on Wednesday unveiled new details about their plans for a manned lunar…

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — The sole nominee to be the next prime minister of Thailand failed to secure enough parliamentary…

By Brad Lendon and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — North Korea fired what it said was a solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday,…

By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision on Tuesday, ruling against a…

By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea said that the intercontinental ballistic missile it launched on…

By Manveena Suri and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Six people have died in a helicopter crash in Nepal, a spokesperson for Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan…

By Kocha Olarn, Jake Kwon and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will not seek re-election and will retire…

By Sophie Jeong, CNN (CNN) — Hawaiian pro surfer Mikala Jones has died at the age of 44 following an accident while surfing in Indonesia’s…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Six people have been killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack outside a…

By Emiko Jozuka, Marc Stewart, Junko Ogura, Moeri Karasawa and Daniel Campisi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Rina Gonoi is a fighter. As a former soldier,…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A restaurant in China that challenged its customers to eat more than 100 dumplings in return for a free…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand. Personal Birth date: July…

By Helen Regan and Su Myat Mon, CNN (CNN) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor told CNN Friday that efforts to bring justice…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Beijing’s temperature soared past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) again Thursday, as the…

By Jessie Yeung, Marc Stewart and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water into the ocean is safe…

By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese nationalist pundit known for his inflammatory criticism of the United States has attracted ridicule online…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong police have arrested five people on suspicion of financially aiding activists abroad, just days…

By Nectar Gan and Candice Zhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Police in China have detained a college graduate suspected of stealing university data to…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country’s Taliban leaders extend their…

By Jessie Yeung, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Torrential downpours and flooding have killed at least 15 people and four…

By Jessie Yeung, Mayumi Maruyama and Emiko Jozuka, CNN (CNN) — Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean…

By Simone McCarthy, Rhea Mogul, Nectar Gan and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Vladimir Putin sought to project an image of strength in…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of “strategic autonomy” from…

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Final Jeopardy category: the American Revolutionary War. The answer is: The last battle of America’s war of…

By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong police on Monday placed HK$1 million ($127,603) bounties on eight prominent…

By Asim Khan and Rhea Mogul, CNN Quetta, Balochistan (CNN) — Police in Pakistan are searching for 13 prisoners who broke out of a jail in the…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who sparked global outrage in 2018 when he revealed that he had…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has registered the highest number of hot days over six months since records began, according to…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Raising a child in South Korea is no easy task. By the time their toddlers can…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — An explosion at a chemical plant in Southeast China on Saturday sent huge billows of thick black smoke into…

By Sandi Sidhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 25 people have been killed after a bus carrying a wedding party burst into flames after crashing…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A series of high-profile domestic violence cases in China, including a killing carried out in broad…

By Kocha Olarn, Alex Stambaugh and Chris Lau, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A 57-year-old Thai woman had to have her leg amputated after she…

By Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — China is on track to double its wind and solar energy capacity and hit its 2030 clean energy targets five years…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has unveiled a sweeping foreign relations law enshrining its right to impose…

By Su Myat Mon and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ma Khin Hla and her five siblings didn’t have time to run when a fighter jet buzzed over their…

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…

By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…

By Reuters and Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change may have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a roughly…