CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Sahar Akbarzai, Xiaofei Xu, Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau China will abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the “Mobile…

By Vedika Sud and Yong Xiong, CNN Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka on Saturday calling for the dissolution of parliament…

By Wayne Chang, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai to five years and nine months…

By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Selina Wang, CNN The unprecedented protests that swept China late last month, posing the biggest challenge to leader Xi…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy announced Friday they are teaming up to build a sixth-generation fighter jet, designed to…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law passed on Thursday that aims to…

By Simone McCarthy and Cheng Cheng, CNN Workers across China have dismantled some of the physical signs of the country’s zero-Covid controls,…

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN The Taliban on Wednesday put an alleged murderer to death in the first public execution held in Afghanistan since the Islamist…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A critically-ill six-month-old baby will be placed under the temporary guardianship of New Zealand’s High Court after…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau China announced sweeping changes to its national pandemic response on Wednesday, the clearest and most…

By Yoonjung Seo, Sophie Jeong and Jessie Yeung, CNN Two former police officers were arrested in South Korea on Monday, accused of destroying evidence…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the country to unite around his leadership as he addressed a memorial service for…

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen and Angus Watson, CNN Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted on Sunday, blanketing roads and homes in volcanic ash and…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Manveena Suri, CNN An earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia’s West Java province on Saturday, the country’s…

By Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN Chinese authorities are using cellphone data to track down protesters who demonstrated against the…

By Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and Enwer Erdem, CNN For more than five years, Sharapat Mohamad Ali and her brother Mohamad had been unable to contact…

By Wayne Chang and Xiaofei Xu, CNN China’s most senior official in charge of its Covid response told health officials Wednesday that the…

By Steven Jiang, CNN Jiang Zemin, the Chinese communist leader who paved the way for the country’s emergence as a global superpower, has died,…

By Nectar Gan and Philip Wang, CNN China’s vast security apparatus has moved swiftly to smother mass protests that swept the country, with…

By Simone McCarthy and Wayne Chang, CNN China’s top health officials have pledged to rectify Covid-19 control measures to reduce their impact…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States and Chinese militaries exchanged harsh words Tuesday after a US Navy warship performed the first freedom of…

By Kathleen Magramo and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong’s leader said he’ll ask Beijing to determine whether foreign lawyers can work on…

By Nectar Gan and Selina Wang and CNN’s Beijing bureau For the first time in decades, thousands of people have defied Chinese authorities to…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has moved quickly to suppress demonstrations that erupted across the country against the…

By CNN’s Beijing bureau and Nectar Gan Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday faced unprecedented dissent after thousands of demonstrators…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as the leader of the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, after…

By Radina Gigova, Larry Register and Tara Subramaniam, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to build “the world’s most…

By Heather Chen and CNN’s Beijing bureau Chinese authorities said Saturday they would ease a months-long Covid lockdown in the country’s…

By Brad Lendon, Gawon Bae and Paula Hancocks, CNN With a blinding yellow flash and a concussion that shakes bones, K9 self-propelled howitzers launch…

By Heather Chen, CNN It’s a political journey decades in the making — the transformation of a young student firebrand into an icon of…

By Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN Zhou, an auto dealer in northeastern China, last saw his father alive in a video chat on the afternoon of November…

By Kathleen Magramo and Wayne Chang, CNN A 90-year-old former bishop and outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party was found guilty…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN A deadly earthquake that reduced buildings to rubble in West Java, Indonesia has once again exposed the dangers of living in…

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan on Thursday named former spy chief Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir as chief of the South Asian country’s army, ending…

By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Kathleen Magramo China on Thursday reported a record number of daily Covid infections, as a nationwide surge in…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Rhea Mogul, CNN A six-year-old boy was pulled alive from the wreckage of a property Wednesday after surviving for more than…

By CNN’s Beijing Bureau A fire at a factory in central China killed dozens of people on Monday, according to Chinese state-media, the latest in…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN The Philippines and China tussled on Sunday over Chinese rocket debris in the disputed South China Sea, raising tensions…

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Rhea Mogul, CNN Rescuers were digging through debris on Tuesday to find survivors of a powerful earthquake that toppled…

By Tara Subramaniam and Nectar Gan, CNN China has reported its first deaths of Covid-19 patients in nearly six months as the country struggles to…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A Philippine archipelago known for tropical vacations will become the focus of political attention this week when Vice…

By Heather Chen and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Malaysia is facing a hung parliament for the first time in its political history, after a divisive,…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN The three major summits of world leaders that took place across Asia in the past week have made one thing clear: Vladimir…

By Heather Chen, CNN Malaysians will head to the polls on Saturday to vote for a new government following years of political turmoil. Three prime…

By Tara Subramaniam and Sophia Saifi, CNN Award-winning movie “Joyland” opens in cinemas in parts of Pakistan Friday, after authorities…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed the need to reject confrontation in Asia, warning against the risk of cold war…

By Gawon Bae, Junko Ogura, Brad Lendon, Rhea Mogul and Larry Register, CNN North Korea said that it conducted a “test firing of a new…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong leader John Lee has arrived at a regional economic summit in Bangkok in the first appearance by the city’s…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Bangkok Thursday for the last of three back-to-back international summits held over the…

By Alex Stambaugh and Heather Chen, CNN A former British ambassador, an Australian economist and a Japanese journalist are reportedly set to be…

By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN North Korea tested a ballistic missile on Thursday as it warned the United States of a…

By Xiaofei Xu and Tara John, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping was captured by Canadian broadcasters in a rare candid moment on Wednesday, where he was…

By Nectar Gan and Rhea Mogul, CNN Russia’s international isolation grew Wednesday, as world leaders issued a joint declaration condemning its…

By Tara Subramaniam and Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan’s government has blocked the nationwide release of “Joyland,” the first…

By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Residents under Covid lockdown in China’s southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou have torn down…

By Sahar Akbarzai, Shafi Kakar and Rhea Mogul, CNN The Taliban has ordered judges in Afghanistan to fully impose their interpretation of Sharia Law,…

By Nectar Gan, CNN After a near three-year absence from the world stage, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has embarked on a whirlwind of face-to-face…

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By Yoonjung Seo, CNN A court in South Korea has approved the extradition of a woman facing murder charges in New Zealand in connection with a case in…

By Yoonjung Seo, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN A senior South Korean police inspector who was being investigated in connection with the deadly…

By Simone McCarthy World leaders are converging in Phnom Penh this weekend for the first in a series of international summits in Southeast Asia over…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A woman who waved a British colonial-era flag to celebrate Hong Kong claiming Olympic gold has become the first person in…

By Kathleen Magramo An Australian man already sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines for human trafficking and rape has been given an extra…

By Mayumi Maruyama and Nectar Gan, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend in person a summit of leaders from the Group of 20 nations in…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou has locked down more than 5 million residents, as authorities rush to stamp out a…

By Azaz Syed, Sophia Saifi and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN A Pakistani journalist shot dead by police in Kenya last month was the victim of a…

By Sugam Pokharel and Philip Wang, CNN A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit western Nepal on Wednesday morning local time, killing at least six people,…

By Heather Chen, Jake Kwon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN A pair of dogs gifted by North Korea are the center of a political dispute in South Korea after the…