Asia & Pacific

SYDNEY—Pacific Island countries that have diplomatic ties with Taiwan should maintain them in the face of "heavy handed" attempts by China to reduce Taiwan's overseas contacts, a top U.S. official ...

Indian forces have killed the leader of an al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group in Kashmir on Friday, triggering ...

TOKYO—U.S. Navy ships conducted joint drills with warships from allies Japan, Australia and South Korea in their first ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on May 22, its latest ...

SEOUL–The U.S. government is lobbying South Korea not to use Huawei products, a South Korean newspaper reported on ...

SINGAPORE/MANILA—Mobile phone retailers in some Asian countries are refusing to accept Huawei devices for trade-ins, as more consumers ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian President Joko Widodo said authorities have the volatile situation in the country’s capital under control after ...

In light of the U.S. administration’s export ban on Chinese telecom giant Huawei, mobile carriers around the world ...

KATHMANDU—Nepal has banned popular Chinese digital payment apps WeChat Pay and AliPay saying payments from the unregistered systems ...

HUALIEN, Taiwan—Taiwan’s navy held a major live-fire exercise on May 22 off the island’s east coast in an ...

PARIS—Air New Zealand Ltd. has decided to buy wide-body planes from Boeing Co., people with direct knowledge of ...

New Zealand police have charged the man accused of murder at two Christchurch mosques with engaging in a terrorist act, according to a May 21 police statement. ...

Incumbent President Joko Widodo won last month's Indonesian election with 55.5 percent of votes against 44.5 percent for ...

Beijing has adopted a state-led approach to fulfill its ambition to dominate the global semiconductor industry. Semiconductor chips ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in ...

KOLKATA—Indians lined up to vote amid unprecedented security in the eastern state of West Bengal on Sunday as ...

A small plane involved in upgrading a runway at Dubai International Airport crashed on Thursday night, May 16, ...

Several Japanese companies are moving some of their production lines out of China, in a move to avoid ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines is recalling its ambassador and consuls in Canada over Ottawa's failure to comply with a ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists urged U.S. officials during a congressional hearing on May 15 to help fight an ...

Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq after repeated U.S. expressions of concern about threats ...

Seven North Koreans were recently caught and detained in China while attempting to escape across the border. “China ...

Update as of 11 a.m. ET: The tsunami threat "has largely passed," say officials. A tsunami warning was ...

ISLAMABAD—The International Monetary Fund said Sunday it reached a preliminary agreement with Pakistan for a $6 billion bailout ...

Hong Kong and Taiwan businesses are planning to pull some of their production from China after the U.S. ...

A Myanmar pilot safely landed a passenger jet without its front wheels

Three gunmen attacked a luxury hotel in Pakistan's southwestern port city of Gwadar