CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau At an office building in China’s capital on Sunday, masked Covid control personnel lugged boxes…

By Helen Regan, CNN The eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga on Saturday was likely the biggest recorded anywhere on the planet in more than…

By Brad Lendon, CNN One of the most powerful weapons in the US Navy’s arsenal made a rare port call in Guam over the weekend, sending a message…

By Gawon Bae and Junko Ogura, CNN North Korea conducted its fourth missile test of the year on Monday, firing two projectiles into the ocean off the…

By Hilary Whiteman, Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News…

By Alex Stambaugh, Laura Smith-Spark, Rhea Mogul, Sophie Jeong and Dakin Andone, CNN An underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted violently on…

By Hilary Whiteman, Julia Hollingsworth, Rhea Mogul, Brad Lendon, Adrienne Vogt and Meg Wagner, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News…

By Melissa Mahtani, Melissa Macaya, Meg Wagner, Adrienne Vogt, Jessie Yeung and Adam Renton, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News…

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea on Friday test fired what are presumed to be two ballistic missiles from a rail car,…

By Nectar Gan, CNN It was supposed to be a quick get-to-know-you — but a snap Covid lockdown forced a Chinese woman to stay with her blind date…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Magawa, the “hero rat” whose work sniffing out landmines in Cambodia won him a medal for life-saving bravery, has…

By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN A suspected ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Tuesday was more advanced than the missile Pyongyang…

By Helen Regan, CNN Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was sentenced to another four years in prison on Monday, the second…

By Jessie Yeung, Hilary Whiteman, Helen Regan, Amy Woodyatt and Ed Upright, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a…

By Azaz Syed and Amy Woodyatt, CNN At least 21 people are dead in northern Pakistan after thousands of vehicles became stranded in a blizzard…

By Yong Xiong and Chandler Thornton, CNN At least 16 people were killed and 10 others injured Friday in a gas explosion in southwestern China,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The arid deserts and shrublands in Australia weren’t always that way, according to a newly discovered and extraordinarily…

By Radina Gigova, Anna Chernova and Katharina Krebs, CNN Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered security forces to “kill…

By Katharina Krebs, Tara John, Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds injured during clashes in Kazakhstan,…

By Helen Regan, CNN Violent protests in Kazakhstan in recent days have seen the government resign and the declaration of a state of emergency as…

By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Beijing Bureau, CNN As the locked down Chinese city of Xi’an claimed victory this week in its fight…

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea said it successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile on Wednesday, the state-run news agency KCNA reported Thursday.…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Australian Open, one of four competitions that make up the “Grand Slam” in professional…

By Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Radina Gigova and Ivan Watson, CNN “Peacekeepers” from a Russia-led military alliance of post-Soviet…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN The pilot of a South Korean F-35A jet fighter made an emergency “belly landing” at an air base on…

By Gawon Bae and Emiko Jozuka, CNN North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, South…

By Jessie Yeung and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for her part…

By Sana Noor Haq and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person, turned 119 years old on Sunday, according to a Twitter…

By Gawon Bae, CNN An unidentified man who crossed the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea on Sunday is presumed to be a North…

By Gawon Bae and Angus Watson, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again admitted there is a “food problem” in the country, during a…

By Angus Watson, CNN A stampede at one of India’s holiest shrines left at least 12 people dead on New Year’s Day, a local official said.…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong has confirmed its first Omicron cluster, bringing an end to its long streak of zero locally transmitted cases and…

By Niamh Kennedy and Rob Picheta, CNN The former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani said he was given “no more than two minutes” to…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Police in southern China paraded four suspects through the streets for allegedly smuggling people across…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Is the Korean War about to come to an end? Some people might answer: “Didn’t that happen in 1953?” Others may…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Cantopop star and prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Denise Ho was arrested at her home on Wednesday morning by the…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Taiwan should be invited to the world’s largest naval exercise next year, according to the US’ 2022 defense spending…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The defense ministers of Japan and China on Monday agreed to set up a joint communication hotline by the end of 2022, a news…

By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Nectar Gan China’s Xi’an has further tightened lockdown measures and rolled out a fifth round of mass…

By Eliza Mackintosh and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier, CNN In the four months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Nilofar, a…

By Cape Diamond, Jessie Yeung and Maija Ehlinger, CNN At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in the eastern Myanmar state of…

By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan will not send any senior officials or Cabinet ministers to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, the…

By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN The South Korean government has pardoned former President Park Geun-hye, who was serving 22 years in prison for…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN On Tuesday, the central Chinese city of Xi’an recorded 52 new Covid-19 cases. By Wednesday, authorities had imposed strict…

Helen Regan, Wayne Chang, Teele Rebane and Karen Smith, CNN For more than 20 years the “Pillar of Shame” sculpture stood as a memorial to…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Personal Birth date: January 8 (Widely believed to be in his…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Junichiro Koizumi, former Japanese prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic…

By Katie Hunt, CNN An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between…

By Junko Ogura, Mayumi Maruyama and Sophie Jeong, CNN Japan executed three death row inmates by hanging on Tuesday, marking the first executions the…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year surpassed 300 on Tuesday as humanitarian agencies…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Xi Jinping, leader of the People’s Republic of China. Personal Birth date: June 15,…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong’s first “patriots only” legislative election witnessed a record low turnout on Sunday, reflecting a…

By Jinky Jorgio and Akanksha Sharma, CNN At least 208 people were killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced after the strongest typhoon to hit…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Jack Ma, co-founder of China’s most successful tech empire and billionaire…

By Hilary Whiteman and Akanksha Sharma, CNN A sixth child has died in hospital after a bouncy castle was lifted into the air at a school event in…

By Junko Ogura, CNN Up to 27 people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in a shopping district in Osaka, Japan, according to the…

By Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Ten years ago, the world watched as a young Kim Jong Un solemnly walked beside his father’s hearse on a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Millipedes have lots of legs. It’s defining feature of this creature, which is neither worm nor insect. However, despite a…

By Jessie Yeung and Jinky Jorgio, CNN Search and rescue operations were underway in the Philippines on Friday after super Typhoon Rai, known locally…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China has detected its second case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a traveler more than two weeks after he arrived in the…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s eastern coast on Tuesday,…

By Eric Cheung, CNN A Hong Kong court has sentenced media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy figures to up to 14 months behind bars for…

By Cheryl Ho, CNN Police in northwestern China broke up the wedding of a 14-year-old girl whose parents allegedly tried to sell her into marriage…