CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Nectar Gan, CNN The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of…

By Gawon Bae, Emiko Jozuka and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) into the waters off its east coast on…

By Cape Diamond and Irene Nasser, CNN Two men will be executed in Myanmar by the military junta after their death sentence appeals were denied, the…

By Yong Xiong, CNN A train conductor was killed and eight other people injured after a high-speed train derailed in southern China on Saturday…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau Multiple neighborhoods in Shanghai were placed back under lockdown only a day after city-wide…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN For decades it was a symbol of freedom on Chinese controlled soil: every June 4, come rain or shine, tens of thousands of people…

By Rhea Mogul, Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed CNN The alleged gang-rape of a woman on a moving train has sparked anger in Pakistan, putting the spotlight…

By Helen Regan, CNN Concerns are growing for Australian TV host Cheng Lei, who has been detained in China for nearly two years, following an…

By Brad Lendon and Simone McCarthy, CNN As China’s foreign minister began a Pacific islands tour to promote economic and security cooperation…

Story by Reuters The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in its fight against a Covid-19 outbreak,…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Canadian surveillance planes helping to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea are being repeatedly buzzed by Chinese…

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN A court in Thailand has sentenced a British man to eight years in prison for the 2014 murder of a woman, whose…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The skyscrapers lit up, roads filled with traffic, and young people drank and danced in the streets as fireworks boomed overhead.…

By Swati Gupta and Ruba Alhenawi, CNN Indian singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by the stage name of KK, died Tuesday night in Kolkata, according to…

By Heather Chen, CNN More than one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, a record figure that the United…

Story by Reuters Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen suffered with menstrual cramps as she lost to Poland’s Iga Swiatek in the French Open fourth…

Story by Reuters China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday urged the Pacific region not to be “too anxious” about his…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China has ordered a nationwide review of school textbooks after illustrations deemed ugly, sexually suggestive and secretly…

By Heather Chen and Esha Mitra, CNN Police are searching for the killers of prominent Indian rapper turned politician Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot…

By Sophie Jeong, CNN North Korea says its Covid-19 outbreak is improving and it is considering revising its anti-epidemic regulations. State-run…

By CNN’s Teele Rebane, Manveena Suri, Sugam Pokharel, Elizabeth Yee and Reuters Search and rescue teams in Nepal have recovered the bodies of…

Story by Reuters UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China was criticized by rights groups and Western countries, said she…

By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Standing atop a truck, thronged by a huge crowd, a visibly enraged Imran Khan repeated the claim that has become…

By Heather Chen, CNN For months, Mai Linh prayed. She prayed for justice for her only son Quan when he was held on drug charges in a maximum-security…

By Samantha Beech, CNN Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution to strengthen sanctions on North…

By Simone McCarthy and Lizzy Yee, CNN China has proposed a sweeping regional security deal with a number of Pacific Island nations, according to…

By Ehsan Popalzai and Jonny Hallam, CNN Two deadly explosions rocked Afghanistan’s city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of the…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his country’s human rights record on Wednesday, telling a…

By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Steven Jiang, CNN US President Joe Biden’s warning the US would defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression has…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN US President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet the leaders of India, Australia and Japan in Tokyo on Tuesday for a summit of the…

By Becky Anderson, Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pakistan’s Imran Khan repeated his claims Monday that the United States had orchestrated…

By Jessie Yeung, Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN The age of appeasing North Korea is over and any new talks between Seoul and Pyongyang must be…

By Heather Chen, CNN A dead sperm whale has washed ashore in the Philippines, the latest in a string of whale deaths that has experts concerned. Two…

Story by Reuters Seven people have died after a high-speed Philippine ferry carrying 134 people caught fire on Monday, with seven passengers still…

By Jo Shelley, Christiane Amanpour and Ahmet Mengli, CNN Two long lines — one of men, another of women — wind around a World Food…

By Yoonjung Seo, Sophie Jeong and Teele Rebane, CNN North Korea claims its Covid outbreak is slowing, with its state-run media reporting on Sunday a…

By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Three North Korean cargo planes flew to China and back on Monday, as the country battles an fast-spreading…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN A tooth unearthed from a remote cave in Laos is helping to sketch an unknown chapter in the human story. Researchers believe the…

By Helen Regan, Sophia Saifi, Asim Khan and Esha Mitra, CNN A deadly cholera outbreak linked to contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized the military to respond to the country’s first officially…

Story by Reuters The Japanese island chain of Okinawa marked the 50th anniversary on Sunday of the end of US occupation and its return to Japan with…

By Nectar Gan, Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea’s first-reported Covid-19 outbreak is the “greatest turmoil” to befall…

By Eric Cheung, CNN and photos by John Mees Business has been swift this week for Oscar Chen, the fourth-generation owner of the Liang Xi Hao…

By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea has announced an “explosive” Covid-19 outbreak that has likely killed six people and…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The volcanic eruption on an island near Tonga in January was as powerful as the 1883 Krakatoa eruption in Indonesia, one of the…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau A Tibet Airlines plane caught fire after skidding off the runway in the southwestern Chinese city of…

By Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is the presumptive President of the Philippines after winning a landslide in…

By Helen Regan and Yasmin Coles, CNN Ferdinand Marcos Jr. claimed victory in the 2022 Philippines elections on Wednesday, saying the “people…

By Heather Chen, CNN The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark a new rule…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is being censored on China’s internet after questioning the sustainability…

CNN Editorial Research Here is some information about the events in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989. Facts Tiananmen Square is…

By Iqbal Athas, Hannah Ritchie and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was rescued in a pre-dawn military…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea’s new President Yoon Suk Yeol promised an “audacious plan” to strengthen North…

By Iqbal Athas, CNN and Reuters Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned on Monday, following weeks of protests against his…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Shanghai is further tightening its stringent lockdown measures after China’s top leader Xi Jinping…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN As night fell, chaos erupted when crowds of protesters outside Hong Kong’s legislative building hurled bottles at police,…

By Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN Women in Afghanistan must cover their faces in public, according to a decree issued by the Taliban on…

By Gawon Bae, Junko Ogura, Mayumi Maruyama and Jessie Yeung, CNN A short-range ballistic missile fired by North Korea Saturday reached an altitude of…

By Iqbal Athas, CNN Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency on Friday, after prolonged protests and a general…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s top leader Xi Jinping has issued the strongest warning yet against anyone who questions the country’s…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast on Wednesday, Japan and South Korea have…