CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Tara Subramaniam and Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan confirmed Tuesday that President Tsai Ing-wen will transit the United States en route to Central…

By Jessie Yeung and Teele Rebane, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise trip to Ukraine to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

By Eric Cheung and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China next week, the first such trip by a…

By Jonny Hallam, Kathleen Magramo and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea must be ready to launch nuclear counter strikes at any time to deter war, state…

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan marked his presence at a much-awaited court appearance on Saturday in the…

By Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka, Tara Subramaniam, Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN US strategic bombers took part in joint air drills with South…

By Heather Chen, Yoonjung Seo and Andrew Raine, CNN Shorter workweeks to boost employee mental health and productivity may be catching on in some…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Avai Yata’uyungana was just 12 when the soldiers dragged his father away to be executed. More than 70 years later, he…

By Heather Chen, CNN With its balmy beaches, laid back lifestyles and holiday vibe, the tropical paradise of Bali has much to offer any world weary…

By Will Ripley, Junko Ogura and Natsumi Sugiura, CNN When Kentaro Yokobori was born almost seven years ago, he was the first newborn in the Sogio…

By Chris Lau, CNN Japan has moved hundreds of troops, including missile units, into a new base built on a remote island near China and Taiwan as its…

By Nectar Gan and Anna Chernova, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping will fly to Moscow next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin in his first visit…

By Nectar Gan, Gawon Bae and Junko Ogura, CNN The leaders of South Korea and Japan promised to resume ties in a fence-mending summit — the…

By Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile early Thursday, the same day leaders from the two US allies were due to meet in…

By Tara Subramaniam and Junko Ogura, CNN A YouTube star who became a Japanese lawmaker has been stripped of his role after he failed to show up for a…

By Hannah Ritchie, Kocha Olarn, Heather Chen and Angus Watson, CNN At least 22 people, including three monks, were killed at a monastery in…

By Eric Cheung, CNN A Taiwanese state-owned military weapons developer unveiled five new types of indigenous military drones on Tuesday, as the…

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN The world’s longest-serving death row convict was on Monday granted a retrial by a Japanese court in the latest twist in a…

By Heather Chen, CNN Michelle Yeoh’s history-making Oscar win caused jubilation this week in her native Malaysia, but it also sparked false…

By Chris Lau, Junko Ogura and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japanese Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, a writer who was renowned for a strong pacifist…

By Eric Cheung and Nectar Gan, CNN A Taiwanese soldier who went missing last week from an island near the Chinese coast has been found in mainland…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s leader Xi Jinping on Monday vowed to bolster national security and build the military into…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar homes that have made this city the world’s most expensive…

By Chris Lau and Jennifer Hauser, CNN A Chinese city has sparked a backlash on social media after saying it would consider the use of lockdowns in…

By Laura He, CNN Business, and Riley Zhang China’s rubber-stamp legislature has appointed Li Qiang, a long-time aide of leader Xi Jinping, as…

By Angus Watson and Nectar Gan, CNN The outgoing president of Micronesia has accused China of engaging in “political warfare” in the…

By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea fired off at least six short-range missiles on Thursday afternoon in what could be the opening salvo…

By Simone McCarthy Chinese state-owned defense firms have maintained trade relationships with sanctioned Russian defense companies during the past…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term as China’s president was officially endorsed by the country’s political…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN A petition calling for the removal of martial arts star Donnie Yen as a presenter at this year’s Oscar ceremony due to his…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tens of thousands of liters of oil that’s spilling from a sunken tanker off the coast of the Philippines has coated…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Rhea Mogul, CNN Two Indonesian soccer officials were sentenced up to 18 months in prison by a court on Thursday over a…

By Tara Subramaniam The Australian conservationist Bindi Irwin revealed Wednesday she has undergone surgery for endometriosis after a decade-long…

By Brad Lendon and Marc Stewart, CNN China should not be surprised Washington and its allies in Asia are deepening military ties given…

By Swati Gupta and Jessie Yeung, CNN An explosion ripped through a building in a crowded area of Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday, killing at…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Parts of Asia’s largest cities could be under water by 2100 thanks to rising sea levels, according to a new study that…

By Kocha Olarn, Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN A court in western Thailand on Monday sentenced five poachers to prison terms of five years each…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Japan’s maiden launch of its new flagship space rocket ended in failure on Tuesday when controllers issued a destruct…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation”…

By Ehsan Popalzai, Shafi Kakar , Niamh Kennedy and Jessie Yeung, CNN Young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University on Monday to protest the…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea on Monday announced a deal to compensate victims of forced labor by Japan during its occupation of…

By Asim Khan, Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN At least nine police officers were killed and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast in…

By Heather Chen, CNN Rescue efforts are underway in parts of Malaysia after seasonal floods killed at least four people and displaced more than…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN The postcard image of Hong Kong is one of glitzy skyscrapers against lush mountains, dim sum restaurants and investment bankers…

By Mitchell McCluskey and Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least 16 people were killed in a fire at a fuel storage station in the Indonesian capital of…

By Andrew McNicol, CNN The return of China’s top basketball league to its normal season format following years of Covid disruptions has been…

By Nectar Gan, CNN A Chinese city says it has destroyed a billion pieces of personal data collected during the pandemic, as local governments…

By Jessie Yeung and Manveena Suri, CNN Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and the support flooding in to Kyiv from countries across the world, sends…

By Teele Rebane, CNN A top Cambodian opposition figure was sentenced to 27 years of house arrest on Friday after being convicted of treason in a…

By Jessie Yeung and Richard Quest, CNN South Korea doesn’t need nuclear arms to deter the threat from North Korea, the country’s Prime…

By Paula Hancocks, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN After spending close to five months stuck inside an airport in South Korea, Dmitry is finally able…

By Heather Chen, CNN Indonesian security forces say they have surrounded armed rebels holding a New Zealand pilot captive in the restive Papua region…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko — a close ally of Vladimir Putin —…

By Jessie Yeung and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN The number of births registered in Japan plummeted to another record low last year — the latest…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Friends and relatives of Hong Kong model Abby Choi on Tuesday paid their final respects at the scene where police say they…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN A key autocratic ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China for a state visit on Tuesday, amid warnings from…

By Jessie Yeung and Kocha Olarn, CNN Last Thursday, Thai investigative police raided a condo in the suburbs of Bangkok — the hideout of an…

By Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy reconnaissance jet flew over the Taiwan Strait on Monday, in a maneuver intended to assert the right to operate in…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Four members of the same family charged in connection with the gruesome killing of Hong Kong model Abby Choi appeared in…

By Angus Watson and Jake Kwon, CNN A group of hostages being held for ransom by armed criminals in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have all now…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon “lips” appears to have just…

By Kathleen Magramo, Wayne Chang, Jake Kwon and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Police in Hong Kong say they have arrested the ex-husband of model and…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN All four people aboard a light aircraft that crashed in the Philippines at the weekend have been confirmed dead, authorities…

By Xiaofei Xu and Irene Nasser, CNN Search and rescue operations continued in northern China Thursday, after a collapsed coal mine left at least five…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, has dropped yet again in the latest setback…

By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said relations between his country and China are “reaching new…

By Brad Lendon and Haley Britzky, CNN China’s navy has significant advantages over its US rival, including a bigger fleet and greater…