Asia & Pacific

KABUL, Afghanistan—A makeshift coal mine collapsed Tuesday in northern Afghanistan, burying five miners and leaving four more missing, a provincial security official said. Jawed Basharat, a spokesman for the provincial ...

TOKYO—Japan on Tuesday proposed holding a naval drill with Germany when a German frigate visits Asia later this ...

Since the start of 2021, significant changes have sprung up in the diplomatic ties between two east Asian ...

A leading Australian policy think tank has warned the federal government that the Chinese military may seek to ...

Australian university sector executives are worried the delayed vaccine rollout will hinder international students' returning to the country. ...

Burma's (also known as Myanmar) detained government leader Aung San Suu Kyi asked a court on Monday to ...

Healthcare workers in the remote Torres Strait Islands will soon receive Australian-made ventilation hoods to help protect staff ...

TOKYO—Japan's government decided Tuesday to start releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear ...

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning ...

AUGUSTA, Ga.—The pressure was even more than Hideki Matsuyama could have imagined when he stood on the first ...

The Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times is temporarily suspending distribution to repair damaged equipment after an ...

Australia’s trade minister is considering whether to launch a second action against China at the World Trade Organisation ...

The communist regime in China has become more active on both Twitter and Facebook to spread propaganda and disinformation ...

After the Chinese regime delivered hundreds of millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccines abroad, its top health officer admitted ...

The Australian Industry Group, a leading industry association, has lobbied for Victoria's Labor government to defer its decision ...

The prevention and control of African swine fever has become normal practice in mainland China but official reports on ...

A state-backed campaign to boycott Western fashion brands for their refusal to use Xinjiang cotton over forced labor ...

MALANG, Indonesia—A strong earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java killed eight people, including a woman whose motorcycle ...

Information on nearly 700 Americans was flagged on a secret Chinese security watchlist during their visits to Shanghai, ...

Taiwan said on April 7 its diplomatic allies that supplied them with COVID-19 vaccines helped to prevent the Chinese ...

An alliance of ethnic armies in Burma that has opposed the junta's crackdown on anti-coup protests attacked a ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. State Department on Friday issued new guidelines that will enable U.S. officials to meet more freely ...

Australia will soon begin sharing its vaccine stockpile with nations in the Pacific, despite the derailment of its ...

Eleven Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone on Friday, including eight fighter jets, the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A South Korean oil tanker held for months by Iran amid a dispute over billions ...

For anyone who dreams of and pursues “absolute equality and common prosperity for all,” Huaxi Village in China ...

TOKYO—Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to ...