CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Jessie Yeung and Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been formally arrested on suspicion of rape, prosecutors in Beijing said in…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Malaysia, a country located in Southeast Asia. Neighboring regions include Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia,…

By Clarissa Ward, Tim Lister, Angela Dewan and Saleem Mehsud, CNN Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s Presidential Palace hours after…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the pro-democracy group that organized some of Hong Kong’s biggest protests, announced…

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN At least four people are presumed dead and two are missing after torrential rain triggered mudslides throughout Japan. Three of…

By Cyril Vanier and Jo Shelley, CNN It’s been years since Haji and his wife have had a good night’s sleep. “All night, my wife…

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Over the last week, the Taliban has made significant gains across Afghanistan and now control over half of the…

By Akanksha Sharma, Masrur Jamaluddin and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Taufiq Hidayat enters the homes of the dead to claim bodies no one will touch. He…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese health authorities have issued new guidelines upping the requirement of mask wearing for the public — including in…

By Nectar Gan, Jessie Yeung and Steve George, CNN After spending nearly 1,000 days in a Chinese jail cell, Canadian businessman Michael Spavor has…

By Clarissa Ward, Brad Lendon and Rob Picheta, CNN The Taliban have seized Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, and a number of other…

By Sophia Saifi and Ben Westcott, CNN Pakistan’s foreign minister has accused India and Afghanistan of backing a suicide bombing which killed…

By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Former K-pop star Seungri was sentenced to three years in jail on Thursday by a South Korean military court,…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Scientists have confirmed the discovery of two massive new dinosaur species in northwest China — some of the first…

Story by Reuters A Panamanian-registered ship ran aground in a northern Japan harbor, then split in two and was leaking oil, but there were no…

By Ivana Kottasová, Tim Lister, Nick Paton Walsh, Clarissa Ward, Hannah Ritchie and Barbara Starr, CNN Twelve provincial Afghanistan capitals are…

By Jessie Yeung and Nectar Gan, CNN Two explosive rape allegations have rocked China in recent weeks, turning a spotlight on the country’s…

By Gawon Bae and Chandler Thornton, CNN A senior North Korean official has denounced South Korea over its joint military exercises with the United…

By Ben Westcott, CNN A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, more than two years after…

By Kocha Olarn and Rob Picheta, CNN Police in Thailand have arrested a 27-year-old man who they say confessed to killing a Swiss tourist on the…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China has punished more than 40 local officials for failing to control a spiraling Delta variant outbreak, as authorities scramble…

Story by Reuters Myanmar’s foreign ministry said on Monday that an alleged plot in New York against United Nations ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, an…

By Jessie Yeung and Steven Jiang, CNN A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence for Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian convicted of drug…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN With the Olympic flame extinguished in Tokyo, all eyes are now on Beijing for the 2022 Winter Games less than six…

By Kareem Khadder, Nick Paton Walsh and Jessie Yeung, CNN The Taliban have seized the city of Taloquan in northeastern Afghanistan, marking the fifth…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma. About Myanmar (from the CIA World…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Personal Birth date: August 17, 1926 Birth place:…

By Jennifer Hauser, Tara John and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN The Taliban has seized control of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, local officials told CNN on…

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Few cases of femicide make headlines in Pakistan, but the beheading of an ambassador’s daughter promises to test a legal…

By Helen Regan and Jamie Crawford, CNN Two Myanmar citizens have been charged in New York with allegedly plotting to kill or injure Myanmar’s…

By Julia Hollingsworth, Yong Xiong and David Culver, CNN When Dennis Hu came home to China for the 2020 Lunar New Year, he thought it would be a…

By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN A wedding hall in the west of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city, now lies on the…

By Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Ten people were stabbed Friday night on a train in Tokyo by a man with a knife, according to the Tokyo Fire Department. The…

By Sara Spary and Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN The Indonesian army has hinted that it will end mandatory “virginity tests” for female recruits,…

By Yasmin Coles, Sophie Jeong and Jessie Yeung, CNN Residents in the Philippine capital are rushing to get Covid-19 vaccines, crowding into…

Story by Reuters A Myanmar militia force fighting the army in a central part of the country and residents have found at least 40 bodies in jungle…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN As Beijing grapples with a worsening outbreak of the Delta variant, an outlandish conspiracy theory linking the…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the Taj Mahal, India’s most popular tourist attraction. The monument is…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s spiraling Delta variant outbreak has reached Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic, prompting citywide…

By Brad Lendon, CNN India is sending a task force of four warships into the South China Sea on a two-month deployment that will include exercises…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN The death toll from floods that ravaged central China last month now stands at 302, local authorities said Monday — more…

By Nick Paton Walsh, Tim Lister and Barbara Starr, CNN The Taliban have taken over a TV station in Afghanistan’s strategic Helmand province, a…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN China’s hardline zero Covid strategy is facing a fresh challenge from the rapid spread of the Delta…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape after allegedly “repeatedly…

By Yong Xiong, CNN A reactor at Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in southern China’s Guangdong province has been shut down because of fuel rod…

By Julia Hollingsworth, Nectar Gan and CNN staff, CNN In a meeting room decorated with a stylized hammer and sickle flag, Kelly Hu detailed her…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong police have arrested a man after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watching an Olympics award…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Some of Japan’s victorious Olympic athletes have been subjected to a storm of online abuse from Chinese nationalists…

By Jessie Yeung and Chermaine Lee, CNN The first person charged and convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law was sentenced to nine…

By Sophie Jeong and Brad Lendon, CNN The Philippines is restoring a military agreement with the United States that makes it easier for US forces to…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The South China Sea has been a hotbed of naval activity this week, with a British aircraft carrier strike group, an American…

By Ben Westcott and Nectar Gan, CNN Among the recriminations and accusations, there was one point of consensus when American and Chinese diplomats…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Beijing recorded its first Covid-19 case in nearly six months on Wednesday, as Chinese authorities scramble to prevent the…

By Eric Cheung and Ben Westcott, CNN China’s Foreign Minister met with senior leaders of the Taliban in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on…

By Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan and Sophie Jeong, CNN Thai citizens seeking Covid-19 treatment in Bangkok are being returned to their hometowns by train,…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN A gold medal-winning Canadian swimmer has made waves in China for her Chinese heritage, sparking heated…

By Helen Regan, CNN Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population in a week with Covid-19 shots, a feat that has been described as…

By Brad Lendon and Nectar Gan, CNN China is building a second field of missile silos in its western deserts, according to a new study, which…

By Jessie Yeung and Chermaine Lee, CNN The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law faces life in prison after…

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached record levels in the first half of 2021, the United Nations warned Monday, noting…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN The Olympics has long been an occasion for celebrating national pride. And for an increasingly confident China,…

By Helen Regan, CNN Two men have been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly striking a police horse during anti-lockdown protests in Sydney,…

By Steven Jiang and Steve George, CNN The breakdown in US-China relations is due to some people in the United States treating China as an…

By Jake Kwon, Kara Fox and Will Ripley, CNN The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony is a gratuitously enjoyable affair, with bulging muscles and beaming…

By Helen Regan and Chandler Thornton, CNN For almost two weeks, a thick, black smudge stained the sky off Sri Lanka’s western coast —…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea is doubling down on its culture war, warning citizens to stay away from all things South Korean…

By Jack Guy, CNN Scientists have discovered previously unknown viruses dating from 15,000 years ago in ice samples taken from a glacier in the…

By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN As record heat waves hit western North America and deadly floods swept Germany, the growing risks associated with…

By Barbara Wojazer, Zachary Cohen, Michael Callahan and Jessie Yeung, CNN The French power company that co-owns a nuclear plant in China would shut…

By Sandi Sidhu, Anna Coren, Helen Regan and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Sohail Pardis was driving from his home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul to…

By Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery…

By Ben Westcott, Isaac Yee and Yong Xiong, CNN The Chinese government will not participate in a second phase of the World Health Organization’s…

By Helen Regan, CNN A severe Covid-19 wave is devastating Myanmar — a country already on its knees following February’s military coup…

By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN Last week, the Biden administration warned American companies about the risk of doing business in Hong Kong,…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN For much of last year, it seemed like Indonesia had managed to keep its Covid-19 outbreak largely under control. Now, the island…

By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN Terrified subway passengers in central China were left clinging to ceiling handles inside flooded cars…

By Amy Sood, CNN A 16-year-old boy was due to be charged with murder by Singapore police on Tuesday after a 13-year-old boy was found dead with…

By Sophia Saifi and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Afghanistan is withdrawing its diplomats from Pakistan following the alleged abduction of the…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The death of nine Chinese workers in a bus explosion in Pakistan has underscored the security risks attached to China’s…