Asia & Pacific

WASHINGTON—The United States imposed sanctions on March 21 on two Chinese shipping companies it says helped North Korea evade sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, the first such steps since a ...

Security concerns are being raised about the Wi-Fi provided on Taiwan's mass transit network, after revelations aired at ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI—China urged the United States on March 21 not to allow Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to stop over ...

New Zealand could find itself out of pocket by hundreds of millions of dollars due to a new ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on March 21 an immediate ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons ...

Chinese video streaming platforms are making plans to enter Taiwan’s market, sparking local concerns that the Chinese regime’s ...

About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online ...

Leaders of the ISIS terror group have called for retaliation for the attack on two mosques in New ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in ...

A Melbourne man was sentenced to 11 years behind bars on March 19 over a deadly dispute with ...

ALMATY—Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev unexpectedly resigned on Mach 19 after three decades in power, in what appeared to ...

An orangutan found with 74 air rifle bullets in her body is on the slow road to recovery ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan’s unique strategic position amid the ongoing Sino–U.S. trade war was made apparent when Apple assembler Foxconn announced ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese authorities are on high alert after Chinese media reports have surfaced that Taiwanese agricultural experts have ...

A key suspect in the Christchurch mosque attacks fired his legal representative on March 16 and plans to ...

BAGHOUZ, Syria—Falling bombs raised smoke over the ISIS terrorist group's last enclave in eastern Syria on Sunday, March ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia—The number of people killed after torrential downpours triggered flash floods and mudslides that tore through mountainside ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—Communities throughout New Zealand are coming together both in disbelief and collective grief in the aftermath ...

Two retired lieutenant colonels in Taiwan were recently found guilty of trying to collect military secrets for the ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—A steady stream of mourners paid tribute on March 17 at a makeshift memorial to the ...

The recent military confrontation between India and Pakistan in the Kashmir region is likely to bring Pakistan even ...

The airport in Dunedin, New Zealand, has been placed in lockdowaccording to law enforcement officials. In a statement ...

Anyone directly or indirectly affected by the Christchurch mosque shootings could be eligible to receive financial compensation, the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal—It’s not very often that the United States and China, countries locked in a bitter trade spat, ...

CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The number of people who died in a confirmed terrorist attack on two South Island mosques ...

President Trump said that white nationalism is espoused by a small group of people who have "very serious ...

Brenton Tarrant, an Australian-born 28-year-old man who was arrested for the massacres of at least 49 people in ...