CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Gawon Bae and Simone McCarthy, CNN South Korea and the United States responded to North Korea’s launch of eight missiles Sunday by firing…

CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN For decades, the Chinese government has sought to erase all memories of its bloody military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square…

By Helen Regan and Yong Xiong, CNN China successfully launched another manned mission to its new space station on Sunday, sending three astronauts…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of…

By Gawon Bae, Emiko Jozuka and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) into the waters off its east coast on…

By Cape Diamond and Irene Nasser, CNN Two men will be executed in Myanmar by the military junta after their death sentence appeals were denied, the…

By Yong Xiong, CNN A train conductor was killed and eight other people injured after a high-speed train derailed in southern China on Saturday…

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau Multiple neighborhoods in Shanghai were placed back under lockdown only a day after city-wide…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN For decades it was a symbol of freedom on Chinese controlled soil: every June 4, come rain or shine, tens of thousands of people…

By Rhea Mogul, Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed CNN The alleged gang-rape of a woman on a moving train has sparked anger in Pakistan, putting the spotlight…

By Helen Regan, CNN Concerns are growing for Australian TV host Cheng Lei, who has been detained in China for nearly two years, following an…

By Brad Lendon and Simone McCarthy, CNN As China’s foreign minister began a Pacific islands tour to promote economic and security cooperation…

Story by Reuters The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in its fight against a Covid-19 outbreak,…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Canadian surveillance planes helping to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea are being repeatedly buzzed by Chinese…

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN A court in Thailand has sentenced a British man to eight years in prison for the 2014 murder of a woman, whose…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The skyscrapers lit up, roads filled with traffic, and young people drank and danced in the streets as fireworks boomed overhead.…

CNN By Simone McCarthy What was meant to be a simple errand, a daughter driving her aging father to the hospital to pick up his medicine, has pulled…

By Swati Gupta and Ruba Alhenawi, CNN Indian singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by the stage name of KK, died Tuesday night in Kolkata, according to…

By Heather Chen, CNN More than one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, a record figure that the United…

By Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN The loss of a plane carrying 22 people in Nepal has highlighted the dangers of air travel in a country often…

Story by Reuters Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen suffered with menstrual cramps as she lost to Poland’s Iga Swiatek in the French Open fourth…

Story by Reuters China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday urged the Pacific region not to be “too anxious” about his…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China has ordered a nationwide review of school textbooks after illustrations deemed ugly, sexually suggestive and secretly…

By Heather Chen and Esha Mitra, CNN Police are searching for the killers of prominent Indian rapper turned politician Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot…

By Sophie Jeong, CNN North Korea says its Covid-19 outbreak is improving and it is considering revising its anti-epidemic regulations. State-run…

Story by Reuters UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China was criticized by rights groups and Western countries, said she…