CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Philippine authorities on Monday launched a search mission atop a restive volcano after spotting the suspected wreckage of a…

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Mia Alberti, CNN An Australian tourist has died after being attacked by a shark in waters off New Caledonia in the South…

By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s top diplomat Wang…

By Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon and Junko Ogura, CNN North Korea said Sunday it conducted a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) a day…

By Nectar Gan and Brad Lendon, CNN It’s known as the “Hawaii of China,” a tropical island paradise where the Chinese middle class…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay is known for its fine wine, but many of the region’s vineyards are now under…

By Junko Ogura, CNN Japan said Tuesday it “strongly” suspects three Chinese spy balloons entered its airspace between 2019 and 2021.…

By Teele Rebane and Angus Watson, CNN Separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have released a series of images showing a pilot…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN China’s top diplomat will visit Russia this month, according to its Foreign Ministry, in the first visit to the country…

By Hilary Whiteman and Taylor Ward, CNN New Zealand declared a National State of Emergency on Tuesday for the third time in its history as Cyclone…

By Nectar Gan, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has accused the United States of “illegally” flying high-altitude…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The Philippine Coast Guard has accused a China Coast Guard ship of pointing a “military grade” laser at some of its…

By Taylor Ward, CNN New Zealand declared a National State of Emergency on Tuesday for the third time in its history as Cyclone Gabrielle inches…

By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN The alleged gang rape of a woman in a park in Pakistan has enraged women’s rights activists who are…

By Brad Lendon, CNN With his young daughter at this side at two splashy military events this week, Kim Jong Un told the world two things — the…

By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN In China’s eyes, the newest superpower battlefield sits between 12 and 60 miles above the…

By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to a lavish banquet at a military barracks on Tuesday, the…

By Heather Chen, CNN Separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have captured a pilot from New Zealand and are holding him hostage…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN China is planning to offer free fertility treatment to citizens under its national insurance scheme in a bid to reverse its…

By Pallabi Munsi, CNN In the summer of 2021, Chomden was abroad, thousands of miles away from her home in Myanmar, when a friend sent her an urgent…

By Selina Wang and Wayne Chang, CNN A balloon spotted over the skies of Latin America belongs to China and was used for flight tests, a Chinese…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Some were seasoned politicians and veteran protest leaders. Others were academics, unionists and health care workers. They…

By Sophia Saifi, Tara John and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pakistan’s former President General Pervez Musharraf has died in Dubai after a prolonged illness…

By Heather Chen and Philip Wang, CNN A 16-year-old girl has been attacked and killed by a shark while swimming in a river in Perth, Western…

By Heather Chen and Wayne Chang, CNN China says it “reserves the right” to deal with “similar situations” following the…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN The young woman rifles through a fridge of popsicles, pulling out several to show the camera. “This is milk…

By Heather Chen, CNN Think “international manhunt” and the image that likely springs to mind is that of a hardened criminal like a…

By Brad Lendon, CNN News that the Pentagon is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States…

By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Saleem Mehsud, CNN The suicide bomber who targeted a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, killing more than…

By Nectar Gan, CNN There are no suspicious circumstances in the death of a Chinese teenager whose body was found near his school last week more than…

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Several suspects have been arrested in connection with Monday’s suicide bomb blast in a mosque in Pakistan’s…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States and India are taking steps to strengthen their defense partnership, officials said Tuesday, the latest sign of…

By Sandi Sidhu, Jessie Yeung, Salai TZ and Ivan Watson, CNN Content warning: This story contains descriptions of violence against children and images…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will drop restrictions on unmarried people having children, part of a broader…

By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Saleem Mehsud, CNN The death toll from a suicide bomb that ripped through a mosque in Peshawar, northwestern…

By Sophia Saifi, Saleem Mehsud and Hira Humayun, CNN A deadly blast in a mosque in Peshawar on Monday, the latest attack on the city in northwest…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN New Zealand authorities warned Monday that the situation in flood-hit Auckland was likely to worsen after…

By Nectar Gan, CNN For three months, the disappearance of Hu Xinyu gripped China. The whereabouts of the 15-year-old, who vanished from a boarding…

By Brad Lendon, CNN NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday asked South Korea to reconsider its rule on not exporting weapons to countries…

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Ten children were killed and seven were injured when a boat capsized on a lake in northern Pakistan Sunday, police said. The…

by Asim Khan, CNN At least 39 people were killed when a bus careered into a ditch and caught fire in the southern Pakistan city of Bela on Sunday.…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Last week, K-pop singer Danielle Marsh asked her online fans what they were doing for Chinese New Year. A profuse apology…

By Heather Chen and Junko Ogura, CNN Here’s something you don’t see everyday. Pet fish playing a video game in Japan managed to log on to…

By Alex Stambaugh, Martin Goillandeau and Taylor Ward, CNN Three people have died and at least one person is missing as a result of torrential rain…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States Marine Corps on Thursday officially opened its first new base in 70 years, a 4,000-acre installation on the US…

By Selina Wang, CNN In China’s southern Guizhou province, there’s a tiny village in the southeast corner, nestled deep within the…

By Junko Ogura, CNN Eight people who were aboard a cargo ship that capsized off the coast of Japan earlier this week have died and nine remain…

By Radina Gigova and Simone McCarthy, CNN A Russian warship armed with advanced hypersonic missiles completed a drill in the Atlantic Ocean, ahead of…

By Heather Chen, Yoonjung Seo, Paula Hancocks, Jake Kwon and Junko Ogura, CNN A deadly cold snap that is gripping East Asia has killed at least four…

By Junko Ogura, CNN Nine crew members remain missing after a cargo ship capsized off Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture on Wednesday, the Japan Coast…

By Ehsan Popalzai, Monica Garrett, Allegra Goodwin and Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least 157 people have died in Afghanistan’s harsh winter, a…

By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s prime minister issued a dire warning about the country’s population crisis on Monday, saying…

By CNN Staff When one by one, the friends of a young woman living in Beijing began disappearing — detained by the police after attending a vigil…

By Mayumi Maruyama and Tara Subramaniam, CNN New Zealand’s Labour party has unanimously endorsed Education Minister Chris Hipkins to succeed…

By Angus Watson and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Two popular Sydney beaches were closed Saturday after swimmers witnessed several bull sharks attacking a…

By Kathleen Magramo A butcher died while trying to slaughter a pig in Hong Kong on Friday, the city’s police said. The 61-year-old butcher, who…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Rising concerns over increasingly aggressive military maneuvers by China have prompted Taiwan to extend the mandatory military…

By Ehsan Popalzai and Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least 78 people have died in freezing conditions in Afghanistan in the last nine days, a Taliban…

By Heather Chen, CNN Indonesia is warning people against consuming liquid nitrogen after more than 20 children were harmed eating a street snack…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN China may be one step closer to losing its place as the world’s most populous country to India after its population shrank…

By Manveena Suri and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Three alleged black-market immigration agents have been arrested in western India in connection with the…

By Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco)…