CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Taylor Ward and Helen Regan, CNN Temperature records are being shattered in countries across Asia as a brutal April heat wave continues to grip…

By Nectar Gan, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau The deadliest fire to hit the Chinese capital in two decades killed 29 people in a hospital…

By Simone McCarthy and Sophie Jeong, CNN China is making “significant progress” building the country’s fifth research facility in…

By Zahid Mahmood, CNN Mohammad Zafri says his memory is patchy after surviving relentless beatings by the Taliban. But one event that’s hard to…

By Emiko Jozuka, Krystina Shveda, Junko Ogura, Marc Stewart and Daniel Campisi, CNN It is still morning when Kinzaburo Shiga, 77, returns to Onahama…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau A Chinese acrobat has fallen to her death during an aerial silks performance, sparking horror and outcry…

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has ordered officials to prepare to launch the country’s first military…

By Wayne Chang, Xiaofei Xu and Nectar Gan, CNN At least 21 people have died in a fire that tore through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing,…

By Manveena Suri and Tara Subramaniam, CNN At least 13 people have died from heatstroke in India’s western Maharashtra state after attending a…

By Tara Subramaniam and Manveena Suri, CNN The brazen assassination of a former Indian lawmaker and his brother in front of live television cameras…

Story by Reuters Noor Jehan, an elephant in Pakistan’s Karachi Zoo, is critically ill after the 17-year-old fell in a pond on Thursday in a…

Story by Reuters An Australian man has been refused bail after being charged with a foreign interference offense for accepting cash from suspected…

By Katie Hunt, CNN A nomadic empire dominated the Asian steppes for three centuries from 200 BC, trading goods on the Silk Road, building elaborate…

By Junko Ogura, Alex Stambaugh and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Police have raided the home of a man suspected of throwing an explosive near Japanese Prime…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region say they have killed at least 13 Indonesian military soldiers after the…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu met Sunday in Moscow, where the two hailed…

By Junko Ogura, Alex Stambaugh and Chris Lau, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed on Sunday to keep world leaders safe during G7 meetings…

By Emi Jozuka and Junko Ogura, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed Saturday after an explosion at a venue where he was…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to “re-enter…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea says the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) it tested Thursday was solid-fueled, a…

By Sugam Pokharel and Hira Humayun, CNN Three Nepali Sherpas are missing after being buried by a block of snow on Mount Everest, according to a…

By Helen Regan, Sophie Jeong and Alex Stambaugh, CNN A former J-pop star trainee came forward with allegations Wednesday that he and multiple other…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Sea levels on China’s coastline have hit their highest on record for the second year in a row, rising more quickly than the…

Story by Reuters A Hanoi court on Wednesday sentenced a prominent Vietnamese political activist to six years in prison for conducting anti-state…

By Chris Lau, CNN Escaping police custody by swapping identities seems like a plot straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, but police in Hong Kong…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Buddhist spiritual leader of the people of…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Japan on Tuesday announced plans to develop and build an array of advanced long-range missiles as it bolsters its defenses amid…

By Helen Regan, Sandi Sidhu, Salai TZ and Anna Coren, CNN Relatives were still recovering the charred bodies and limbs of victims killed in a…

By Celine Alkhaldi and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN The United Nations said it was being forced into making an “appalling choice” after…

By Chris Lau, CNN A severe sandstorm has cloaked Beijing and China’s northeastern regions for the fourth time in a month forcing some residents…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest…

By Brad Lendon, CNN For the first time, the Chinese navy appears to have simulated strikes by aircraft carrier-based warplanes on Taiwan, as drills…

By Heather Chen, CNN An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy has sent a destroyer close to a contested island in the South China Sea that Beijing has fortified with military…

By Wayne Chang The Covid-19 virus may have originated from humans, a Chinese scientist has claimed. The genetic sequences of viral samples taken from…

By Eric Cheung, Larry Register and CNN’s Beijing bureau, CNN China said Sunday it was simulating precision attacks on key targets in Taiwan as…

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN Her father was ousted from power by a military coup in 2006. Her aunt’s government suffered a similar fate…

By Heather Chen There’s an old Chinese saying that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” Roughly translated it means the…

By Xiaofei Xu, Wayne Chang, Jade Wurapa and Heather Chen, CNN A Chinese court on Friday sentenced six people to jail for their roles in the human…

By Wayne Chang, Sophie Jeong, Heather Chen, Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN China has started three days of military exercises around Taiwan after…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN North Korea claimed on Saturday to have tested a new type of underwater drone it said was “capable of…

By Andrew McNicol and Andrew Raine, CNN It was a Chinese dream driven by the same sort of ambition that has seen this country rise from poverty to…

By Simone McCarthy, Jake Kwon, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has slapped sanctions on two American organizations that hosted Taiwan’s…

By Emiko Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN Rescuers are scanning waters off southern Japan for 10 people on board a Japanese military helicopter that…

By Jessie Yeung and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Across Japan, nearly 1.5 million people have withdrawn from society, leading reclusive lives largely confined…

By Simone McCarthy, Jake Kwon and Pauline Lockwood, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he was counting on him…

By Helen Regan, CNN Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said farewell to politics Wednesday with a rousing speech that assured other…

By Richard Roth, Jessie Gretener and Jessie Yeung, CNN Afghan men working for the United Nations in Kabul will stay home in solidarity with their…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A slow-moving environmental catastrophe is unfolding in a marine ecosystem home to some of the world’s rarest species,…

By Simone McCarthy and Michelle Toh, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen arrive in Beijing this…

By Sania Farooqui, CNN Seven tourists were killed and 13 others injured in a major avalanche in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim, local…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The Philippines on Monday identified the locations of four new military bases the US will gain access to, as part of an expanded…

By Sophia Saifi and Chris Lau, CNN At least 13 people were killed and 10 others injured Friday in a crush among people waiting for Ramadan food…

By Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN Firefighters in central Thailand have spent days battling a wildfire that has engulfed two mountains and part of…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least 29 people were killed Wednesday night after an inter-island ferry caught fire in the southern Philippines, with…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Taiwan’s relationship with the United States has “never been closer,” its President Tsai Ing-wen said after…

By Riley Zhang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Valery Gergiev, the star Russian conductor fired in Germany last year for his refusal to condemn the invasion of…

By Simone McCarthy Taiwan has every right to “connect with the world,” its President Tsai Ing-wen declared Wednesday as she embarked on a…

By Nectar Gan, CNN For 12 years, Program Think, an anonymous Chinese blogger, mounted an open challenge to China’s tightening authoritarian…

By Shafi Kakar, Hande Atay Alam and Helen Regan, CNN A prominent activist for girls’ education in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on…

By Chris Lau, CNN Wearing numbered lanyards, a small group of 80 demonstrators took part in Hong Kong‘s first authorized protest in three years…

By Tara Subramaniam and Manveena Suri, CNN A Namibian cheetah relocated to India last year as part of plans to reintroduce the species on the…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Russia’s Pacific Fleet fired a pair of supersonic missiles at a mock target in waters off Japan’s coast on…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN Myanmar’s ruling military paraded an arsenal of weapons in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday, in a grand display of force days…

By Chris Lau, CNN A child riding on his father’s shoulders smiles as they stroll through a park lined with yellow autumn-touched leaves —…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Honduras has formally established diplomatic ties with China and severed them with Taiwan, ending a decades-long relationship and…

By Brad Lendon, CNN A day after China said it drove a US Navy destroyer away from Beijing-claimed waters in the South China Sea, the US 7th Fleet…

By Yoonjung Seo and Chris Lau, CNN A male zebra broke loose in South Korea’s capital on Thursday, trotting down busy roads and back alleys for…

By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea on Friday claimed to have tested an underwater drone capable of carrying a nuclear warhead that…

By Yoonjung Seo, Andrew Raine and Gawon Bae, CNN Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations…

By Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan announced Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Honduras as ties between the two worsen, with the…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau Beijing, the sprawling Chinese capital and one of the world’s biggest cities, saw its population…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A severe sandstorm has swept across Beijing and several northern provinces in China, blanketing the region in thick clouds…

By Sahar Akbarzai, Hira Humayun, Sophia Saifi, Masoud Popalzai and Helen Regan, CNN The death toll from a strong earthquake that struck northeast…