CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN In the first case of its kind, a Chinese court has ruled against an unmarried woman who sued a hospital that refused to…

By Nectar Gan, Selina Wang, Eric Cheung and Simone McCarthy, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan Tuesday evening, marking a…

By Eric Cheung, CNN In simulated scenes, a hostile enemy attempts to seize control of a key waterway close to the Taiwanese capital. Attacking from…

By Simone McCarthy George Gao, head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has stepped down after five years at the helm of the…

By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Joseph Ataman CNN Poland is buying almost 1,000 tanks, more than 600 pieces of artillery and dozens of fighter jets…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The Chinese metropolis of Wuhan has shut down a district of almost a million people after detecting four asymptomatic Covid cases,…

By Heather Chen, CNN Countries across Asia are on high alert for monkeypox, screening travelers and scrambling teams of medics, as they report their…

By Kathleen Magramo, Katie Hunt and Kristin Fisher, CNN The remnants of the massive Chinese rocket that delivered a new module to its space station…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing has urged candidates vying to be Britain’s next Prime Minister to refrain from “hyping up the so-called…

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Wild monkeys have attacked dozens of residents of a city in southwestern Japan in recent weeks, with reports of…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The United States is no stranger to China’s angry responses over its support for Taiwan, a self-governing island that…

By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Public services in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, have been suspended and businesses are being urged to…

By Tara Subramaniam Severe heat warnings were issued for almost 70 Chinese cities, where temperatures were expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104…

By Yong Xiong and Kathleen Magramo, CNN China successfully docked a second laboratory module to its under-construction space station, the China…

By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN Myanmar’s military junta executed two prominent pro-democracy activists and two other men accused of…

By Junko Ogura and Hira Humayun, CNN Japan‘s Sakurajima volcano, located on the island of Kyushu, erupted on Sunday, prompting evacuations in…

By Yong Xiong, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping and other top state officials have been given domestic Covid-19 vaccines, the ruling Communist Party…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN A man who killed his ex-wife by setting her on fire during a livestream was executed in China on Saturday, state media reported,…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN It’s as if Seoul is infatuated. Stroll through the South Korean capital and amid the sea of traditional…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Millions of people in China are bracing themselves for even hotter weather this weekend as more than a dozen cities issued…

By Rukshana Rizwie, Akanksha Sharma, Kunal Seghal and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Sri Lanka‘s police and military troops forcibly removed…

By Reuters Lawmakers chose India‘s first president from the country’s tribal communities on Thursday, which could boost the appeal of…

By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN A wild monkey is terrorizing a small city in southwestern Japan, breaking into homes to bite and claw residents…

By Rhea Mogul, Iqbal Athas and Rukshana Rizwie, CNN Sri Lankan lawmakers on Wednesday elected former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as President…

By Alex Rogers, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Nectar Gan, CNN China warned Tuesday it would take “resolute and forceful measures” if…

By Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the third time in a week the vessel has entered waters claimed by…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Towns and farmlands inundated by floods, homes and roads buried by landslides, crops withering under scorching heat, hazmat-suited…

By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 Boramae fighter jet flew for the first time on Tuesday, putting the country…

Story by Reuters Malaysian authorities have seized a massive haul of trafficked animal parts, including elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales…

By Heather Chen, CNN Miriam has seen her share of high-risk operations and procedures in her years as a veteran doctor in the Philippines — but…

By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN At least 30 endangered green sea turtles were found on Thursday with wounds around their neck, near the remote…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Filipinos living abroad are snapping up books about the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, not just to read about…

By Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy warship on Saturday challenged Chinese claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea, the US 7th Fleet said in a…

By Heather Chen, CNN For years it had been one of Sri Lanka’s grandest and most heavily guarded buildings, serving as the official residence…

By Jessie Yeung, Iqbal Athas and Kunal Sehgal, CNN Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country earlier this week, has…

By Brad Lendon, CNN More than 50 US and Japanese warplanes flew over waters near Japan this week as the two allies put on a show of force amid rising…

By Iqbal Athas, Rhea Mogul and Rukshana Rizwie, CNN Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has tendered his resignation in a letter sent by email to…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Sri Lanka has plunged into chaos and its president has fled to Singapore, before emailing his resignation, as questions swirl…

By Heather Chen, CNN Angry protesters who stormed the official residences of Sri Lanka‘s President have forced him to flee the country, but his…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN They were once seen as heroes of the nation, the almost mythical warrior-king leaders who defeated the separatists in a bloody…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Millions of Shanghai residents braved sweltering heat Tuesday to wait in line for compulsory Covid tests, as growing case numbers…

By Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy destroyer sailed near a disputed South China Sea island chain on Wednesday, challenging the restrictions imposed by…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran activist to nine months in jail under a colonial-era sedition law for…

By Jessie Yeung and Shawn Deng, CNN A heat wave is sweeping through China, with residents resorting to air raid shelters and public fountains to stay…

By Iqbal Athas, Rukshana Rizwie, Tara John and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis escalated as protesters stormed…

By Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN Family and close friends attended the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday,…

By Jessie Yeung, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN The Unification Church said Monday it was puzzled by reports of alleged resentment held…

By Nectar Gan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN When Akie Matsuzaki married Shinzo Abe, then a rising political aide, in 1987, she followed a path well trodden…

By Jessie Yeung and Rhea Mogul, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights…

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s ruling coalition swept to victory on Sunday in an upper house election that took on heightened…

By Rhea Mogul, Amy Woodyatt, Nectar Gan, Rukshana Rizwie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Sri Lanka woke on Sunday to an uncertain future, with both its…

By Kathleen Magramo, Emiko Jozuka, and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Japanese voters headed to the polling stations on Sunday for an election billed as a…

By Iqbal Athas, Rhea Mogul and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said he was willing to resign and…

By Helen Regan, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Police in Japan have launched a murder investigation into the assassination of former Japanese…

By Helen Regan, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN The body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived back at his home in Tokyo on…

By Rhea Mogul, Helen Regan, Amy Woodyatt, Adrienne Vogt and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a…

By CNN Staff Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in Nara. He was 67. Abe was…

By Helen Regan, Junko Ogura and Tara John, CNN Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Friday after being shot while giving a campaign…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shocked Japan, a country with one of the world’s lowest…

By Jessie Yeung, Rhea Mogul, Helen Regan, Rob Picheta, Amy Woodyatt, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt and Elise Hammond, CNN…

By Helen Regan, Junko Ogura and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in critical condition and fighting for his life after…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Singapore on Thursday executed two men for drug trafficking, ignoring pleas for mercy from human rights campaigners who fear…

By Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Beijing on Wednesday announced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for residents to enter public…

By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN China’s northwestern city of Xi’an, home to 13 million people, was partially shut down on Wednesday…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea, one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies, is re-embracing nuclear energy, with the…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Top-of-the-line F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States and South Korea are teaming up for the first time…

Story by Reuters North Korea appears to have released water from a dam near its border with South Korea, prompting vacationers in the neighbouring…

By Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and Nectar Gan, CNN A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN The trial in China of a missing Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was abducted from a hotel room in Hong Kong five years ago will…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN As employees return to the office in South Korea, so does gapjil — the country’s longstanding problem…

By Heather Chen, CNN China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on Myanmar’s junta leaders to talk to their opponents amid concerns over…

By Kathleen Magramo and Lauren Lau, CNN A rescue team from mainland China saved a crew member of a ship that broke in half and sank during Typhoon…

By Wayne Chang and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A Hong Kong lawmaker who was photographed standing close to Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week…

Story by Reuters North Korea has criticized an agreement between the United States, South Korea and Japan to strengthen military cooperation —…