CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Chris Lau Police in Malaysia say they are investigating the death of a woman whose decomposing body was discovered in a travel bag at an abandoned…

By Junko Ogura, Alex Stambaugh and Chris Lau, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed on Sunday to keep world leaders safe during G7 meetings…

By Emi Jozuka and Junko Ogura, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed Saturday after an explosion at a venue where he was…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to “re-enter…

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea says the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) it tested Thursday was solid-fueled, a…

By Sugam Pokharel and Hira Humayun, CNN Three Nepali Sherpas are missing after being buried by a block of snow on Mount Everest, according to a…

By Helen Regan, Sophie Jeong and Alex Stambaugh, CNN A former J-pop star trainee came forward with allegations Wednesday that he and multiple other…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Sea levels on China’s coastline have hit their highest on record for the second year in a row, rising more quickly than the…

By Jessie Yeung and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Japan’s population has fallen for the 12th consecutive year, as deaths rise and the birth rate…

Story by Reuters A Hanoi court on Wednesday sentenced a prominent Vietnamese political activist to six years in prison for conducting anti-state…

By Chris Lau, CNN Escaping police custody by swapping identities seems like a plot straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, but police in Hong Kong…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Buddhist spiritual leader of the people of…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Japan on Tuesday announced plans to develop and build an array of advanced long-range missiles as it bolsters its defenses amid…

By Helen Regan, Sandi Sidhu, Salai TZ and Anna Coren, CNN Relatives were still recovering the charred bodies and limbs of victims killed in a…

By Chris Lau, CNN A severe sandstorm has cloaked Beijing and China’s northeastern regions for the fourth time in a month forcing some residents…

By Brad Lendon, CNN For the first time, the Chinese navy appears to have simulated strikes by aircraft carrier-based warplanes on Taiwan, as drills…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest…

By Heather Chen, CNN An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy has sent a destroyer close to a contested island in the South China Sea that Beijing has fortified with military…

By Wayne Chang The Covid-19 virus may have originated from humans, a Chinese scientist has claimed. The genetic sequences of viral samples taken from…

By Eric Cheung, Larry Register and CNN’s Beijing bureau, CNN China said Sunday it was simulating precision attacks on key targets in Taiwan as…

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN Her father was ousted from power by a military coup in 2006. Her aunt’s government suffered a similar fate…

By Heather Chen There’s an old Chinese saying that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” Roughly translated it means the…

By Xiaofei Xu, Wayne Chang, Jade Wurapa and Heather Chen, CNN A Chinese court on Friday sentenced six people to jail for their roles in the human…

By Wayne Chang, Sophie Jeong, Heather Chen, Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN China has started three days of military exercises around Taiwan after…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN North Korea claimed on Saturday to have tested a new type of underwater drone it said was “capable of…

By Andrew McNicol and Andrew Raine, CNN It was a Chinese dream driven by the same sort of ambition that has seen this country rise from poverty to…

By Simone McCarthy, Jake Kwon, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has slapped sanctions on two American organizations that hosted Taiwan’s…

By Emiko Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN Rescuers are scanning waters off southern Japan for 10 people on board a Japanese military helicopter that…

By Jessie Yeung and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Across Japan, nearly 1.5 million people have withdrawn from society, leading reclusive lives largely confined…

By Simone McCarthy, Jake Kwon and Pauline Lockwood, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he was counting on him…

By Adam Pourahmadi, Irene Nasser and Simone McCarthy, CNN Saudi Arabia’s and Iran’s Foreign Ministers met in Beijing on Thursday to…

By Helen Regan, CNN Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said farewell to politics Wednesday with a rousing speech that assured other…

By Richard Roth, Jessie Gretener and Jessie Yeung, CNN Afghan men working for the United Nations in Kabul will stay home in solidarity with their…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A slow-moving environmental catastrophe is unfolding in a marine ecosystem home to some of the world’s rarest species,…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN From flying through the air to turning their bodies into a lasso and climbing smooth surfaces, we thought we’d seen snakes…

By Simone McCarthy and Michelle Toh, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen arrive in Beijing this…

By Sania Farooqui, CNN Seven tourists were killed and 13 others injured in a major avalanche in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim, local…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The Philippines on Monday identified the locations of four new military bases the US will gain access to, as part of an expanded…

By Chris Lau, CNN Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever…