CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Heather Chen, CNN Buddhist funeral rites have begun in the grieving town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, where families are mourning the…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said Monday there is “no room for compromise” over the self-ruled…

By Mitchell McCluskey, Emiko Jozuka and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Munchon area of Kangwon Province…

By Kocha Olarn, Anna Coren and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Smears of dried blood still stained the wooden floor of a classroom in northeastern Thailand on…

By Heather Chen, CNN A 236 million peso ($4 million) lottery jackpot shared among a record number of more than 400 winners has sparked questions in…

By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN Thailand recoiled in horror Thursday after at least 36 people were killed, at least 24 of them children, in a…

By Jessie Yeung, Yong Xiong and Nectar Gan, CNN China has banned residents from leaving Xinjiang over a Covid-19 outbreak — just weeks after…

By Yoonjung Seo, Caitlin Hu, Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN The United States and South Korea launched four missiles off the east coast of the…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Australia, which has one of the world’s worst records on extinctions, on Tuesday announced a 10-year plan to prevent…

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning over Japan on Tuesday for the…

By Yoonjung Seo, Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Brad Lendon and Simone McCarthy, CNN Japan urged residents to take shelter early Tuesday morning after…

By Heather Chen, CNN As Indonesian families bury their dead, questions are being asked as to how a soccer match attended only by supporters of the…

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen, Raja Razek, Jake Kwon and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN At least 125 people are dead after chaos and violence erupted…

By Martin Goillandeau and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Australian women working on research bases in Antarctica have been plagued by a widespread culture of…

By Masoud Popalzai, Rhea Mogul, Irene Nasser, Alex Stambaugh and Ehsan Popalzai CNN A suicide bomb attack on an education center in Kabul has killed…

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

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

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…