Asia & Pacific

HONG KONG—Hong Kong police on July 22 defended their actions and the lack of arrests after opposition lawmakers said police had failed to protect a train full of anti-government protesters ...

OMIYA, Japan—The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. State Department said on July 20 that it's concerned about reports of China's interference with oil and ...

Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners marched through the streets of Hong Kong on July 21 to call for ...

Two groups are set to take to the streets of Hong Kong this Sunday. Although marching for different ...

A 1-year-old Chinese child was hospitalized after swallowing 10 magnetic balls which attached to each other in his ...

TOKYO—Police on Friday were investigating at the blackened, gutted building in Kyoto where a man raging about theft ...

HANOI—Vietnam on July 19 accused a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts of violating its sovereignty and ...

MANILA, Philippines—Thousands of Philippine police officers have received administrative punishments with more than 2,000 dismissed for wrongdoings during ...

TOKYO—A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid ...

At least 227 people have died since flash floods ravaged swathes of South Asia over the weekend, officials ...

TOKYO—Over 20 people were feared dead and dozens more either unconscious, hurt, or missing in a suspected case ...

HANOI—Vietnamese and Chinese ships have been embroiled in a weeks-long standoff near an offshore oil block in disputed ...

A “mysterious 200-pound load” was added to the flight list of MH370 after take-off, according to an engineer ...

Japan recently set restrictions on tech material exports to South Korea that could deal an inadvertent blow to ...

Child rights activists say that a growing number of foreign pedophiles have been targeting Nepal due to its ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Washington-based Freedom House, a nonprofit partially funded by the U.S. government, has taken to its Facebook page ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—A strong earthquake in eastern Indonesia killed two people and damaged at least dozens of homes, a ...

Han Kuo-yu, the China-friendly politician who was a surprise election winner for mayor of the Taiwanese city of ...

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL), the world’s largest manufacturer of battery cells for electric vehicles, is recruiting engineers ...

The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rose to 64 ...

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia seized more than 1 billion ringgit ($243.5 million) from a bank account of state-owned China Petroleum ...

As protests in Hong Kong continue over a controversial extradition bill, there has been much speculation over embattled ...

A Canadian citizen has been detained in the Chinese city of Yantai, a Canadian government spokesman said on ...

Two backpackers risked their lives playing with a venomous blue-ringed octopus in Australia, according to reports on July ...

A Japanese fisherman captured the moment an octopus crawled out of a clamshell, according to Storyful. The octopus ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—A strong, shallow earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on July 14, damaging some homes and causing panicked residents ...