CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN When Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr. met US President Joe Biden in New York last week,…

By Reuters The Vatican on Thursday acknowledged that it had secretly disciplined East Timor bishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Ximenes Belo…

By Manveena Suri and Jack Bantock, CNN Marital rape was defined as rape in a landmark decision by India’s Supreme Court on Thursday. The…

By Kathleen Magramo and Eric Cheung, CNN China’s famous ‘Panda diplomacy’ faces a test — after a bear in Taiwan came down…

By Heather Chen and Sophie Jeong, CNN A Myanmar military court has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former adviser, Australian Sean…

By Jessie Yeung and Jasmine Wright, CNN US Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea on…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance since returning from a trip to Central Asia, quashing unfounded…

By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN A beauty queen from Myanmar who took refuge in Thailand after criticizing her home country’s ruling…

By Kathleen Magramo, Taylor Ward and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN Typhoon Noru made landfall near Vietnam’s popular beach resort city of Da Nang…

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan bid farewell to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an elaborate state funeral Tuesday, despite public…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy’s most advanced surface warship is showing its stealthy profile in the western Pacific on a mission that may…

By Jessie Yeung and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN People in the northern Philippines were bracing for landslides on Monday after five rescue workers…

By Kathleen Magramo, Lauren Faith Lau and Nectar Gan, CNN Cardinal Joseph Zen, a 90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong and outspoken critic of…

By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul, Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Javed Iqbal, and Sameer Mandhro, CNN The baby sleeps listlessly on the hospital bed, her frail…

By Idris Mukhtar, Junko Ogura and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Typhoon Noru blasted the Philippines main Luzon island on Sunday, prompting warnings that heavy…

By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Larry Register, CNN North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the waters off the east coast of the Korean…

By Kathleen Magramo and Larry Register, CNN Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has warned that climate change will not spare other…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Japan, a country of islands located off the eastern coast of mainland Asia. About Japan (from the CIA…

By Wayne Chang, CNN China’s former deputy public security minister Sun Lijun has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges, state…

By Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN A Chinese man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for his leading role in a brutal attack on female diners in…

By Heather Chen, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN A criticism used on US lawmakers by the President of South Korea has gone viral on social media…

By Jessie Yeung and Lauren Lau, CNN A man was arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of sedition after playing the harmonica at a vigil for Queen…

By Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka, Jake Kwon and Heather Chen, CNN A Japanese man in his 70s has been taken to hospital in Tokyo after setting himself on…

By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Angelina Jolie is set to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a…

By Kevin Liptak and Brad Lendon, CNN President Joe Biden in an interview that aired Sunday said US military personnel would defend Taiwan if the…

By Junko Ogura, Heather Chen and Jake Kwon, CNN At least two people have died after Typhoon Nanmadol brought record-breaking rains and strong winds…

By Yong Xiong, Nectar Gan and Philip Wang, CNN Anger and criticism over China’s unrelenting zero-Covid policy has erupted after a bus…

By Rob Picheta and Eric Cheung, CNN A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse and triggering…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau A top Chinese health official has warned people against touching foreigners, a day after mainland…

By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, Sahar Akbarzai and Jennifer Hauser, CNN About two million people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate…

By Heather Chen, CNN They called it the “Goddess of the Yangtze” — a creature so rare that it was believed to bring fortune and…

By Andrew Raine and CNN’s Beijing bureau With the sun shining, drinks on the table and music in the air, it looks like the young men in the…

By Sophia Saifi, Jake Kwon, Larry Register and Heather Chen, CNN “Super floods” in Pakistan have left 3.4 million children in need of…

By Gawon Bae, CNN The Chinese and South Korean soldiers stood face to face, the wind whipping through their ranks and their national flags flapping…

By Nectar Gan and Rhea Mogul, CNN When Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sit down with other Asian leaders at a summit…

By Brad Lendon, CNN China’s military leaders share a potential weakness that has undermined their Russian counterparts in Ukraine and could…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised China’s “balanced position” on the Ukraine war, though he…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Thousands of people in Hong Kong have turned out to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, in one of the largest public…

By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Central Asia in his first foreign trip in almost 1,000 days,…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Pakistan. It borders Iran, Afghanistan and India in Southeast Asia. In 1947, Pakistan gained its…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also called North…

By Sophia Saifi, Aliza Kassim and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Authorities in Pakistan have warned it could take up to six months for deadly flood waters to…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN From the pandemic to the climate crisis, disasters of the past five years have upended daily life, and a new report shows that in…

By Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and Philip Wang, CNN As Russian forces suffer a string of stunning defeats in Ukraine, Moscow is playing up Beijing’s…

By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over…

By Jake Kwon, CNN A massive 7.6 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday, causing landslides, cracking roads and damaging buildings. While the…

By Yoonjung Seo, Larry Register and Heather Chen, CNN North Korea has passed a new law declaring itself a nuclear weapons state in a move leader Kim…

By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s mega city of Chengdu has extended its Covid lockdown for a second time, with…

By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of a conspiracy to publish seditious…

By Kathleen Magramo, Mengchen Zhang, CNN A man who lost control of his hydrogen balloon while harvesting pine nuts in China has been found and…

By Javed Iqbal, Sameer Mandhro and Kathleen Magramo, CNN “There is too much water. We are going to drown.” That was the warning from the…

By Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese leader Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on the sidelines of a…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had not lost anything as a result of its ongoing military…

By Simone McCarthy and Brenda Goodman, CNN China has become the first country to green-light an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for…

By Javed Iqbal, Sameer Mandhro and Kathleen Magramo, CNN It was raining when Kainat Solangi’s daughter was born on August 14 and it’s…

By Masoud Popalzai, Anna Chernova, Eyad Kourdi and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Two Russian embassy employees were among six people killed in a suicide blast…

By Sahar Akbarzai and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Rescuers have evacuated survivors of a climbing expedition on Eurasia’s highest volcano that…

By Hannah Ritchie, Kathleen Magramo and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN Water levels at Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake remain dangerously high…

By Idris Mukhtar, Hannah Ritchie and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Humanitarian agencies have warned Pakistan is in need of long-term aid as the death toll…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Growing up in North Korea, Kang Na-ra had never used the internet. Even the privileged few of her compatriots…

By Teele Rebane, Shawn Deng, Larry Register and Heather Chen, CNN China has warned the United States it will take “counter-measures”…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN After more than 50 days, he’s back. Runaway former Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Colombo early on…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN More than one third of Pakistan is underwater, according to satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA), as deadly…

By Larry Register, Heather Chen, CNN Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed former leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been found guilty of…

By Brad Lendon, Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Swati Gupta, CNN India joined an elite league of the world’s naval powers on Friday, when it…

By Kara Fox, CNN and Reuters Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms,…

By Gladys Tsai and Larry Register, CNN Taiwan says it has shot down an unidentified civilian drone over one of its islands that lies just a few…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Just minutes before the end of her term on Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dropped a damning…

By Heather Chen, CNN The death of a transgender Harvard graduate student in police custody in Bali is causing anger in his native Peru, where…

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau China last year registered the fewest marriages since its public records began more than three decades…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau The Chinese metropolis of Chengdu imposed a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Australian sailors will soon begin training on the United Kingdom’s nuclear-powered submarines as the defense relationship…

By Jessie Yeung and Tetsu Sukegawa, CNN A nursing home in southwestern Japan is hiring some unusual new employees: babies. The generous compensation…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN China has committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in its northwestern region of…

By Brad Lendon, Paula Hancocks and Gawon Bae, CNN US and South Korean combined forces on Wednesday held their first live-fire exercises since the…

By Brandon Miller, Judson Jones, Sophia Saifi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan’s…

By Rachel Ramirez and Angela Dewan, CNN Pakistan was already struggling when the devastating monsoon rains hit. This year, economic and political…