Asia & Pacific

TOKYO—Stocks extended their slump in early Asian trade on Dec. 10, with U.S. equity futures off to a softer start for the week after prolonged silence from China last week ...

New Zealand police said on Dec. 9 they believe they have found the body of a missing 22-year-old ...

A 26-year-old man will be charged with the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane, who went missing in ...

TOKYO—Japan's military looks to raise spending over the next five years in response to security challenges and to ...

Prompted by instinctive unease, Mohd Zahrin's mother returned home at lunchtime during her factory shift to see him. She ...

TOKYO—Japan plans to ban government purchases of equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp to ...

WASHINGTON—One U.S. Marine was killed and rescue teams were searching for five others missing after two Marine Corps ...

NEW DELHI—India's toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that ...

STOCKHOLM—Yemen's warring sides agreed to free thousands of prisoners on Dec. 6, in what a U.N. mediator called ...

One U.S. Marine was killed and rescue teams were searching for five others who were missing after two ...

China-watchers from around the world have signed a petition to demand greater protection for a New Zealand academic ...

Vietnam is voicing concerns about a sudden surge in Chinese investment this year, purportedly for the purpose of ...

Crab and other seafood from North Korea is being sold in Dandong, a Chinese city, in contravention of ...

Care Resort is one of the first of several similar establishments that have sprung up in Thailand recently, ...

WELLINGTON—New Zealand will send 14 new diplomats to the Pacific region next year, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea—Inside a Chinese-funded facility perched on a steep hill overlooking Port Moresby's sparkling harbor, ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—A top commander of the Taliban has been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand in ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan's policy of maintaining the status quo with China won't change despite a drubbing at local elections for ...

Fifty-one pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach on the Chatham Islands off New Zealand. ...

An Australian politician known for her firm anti-immigration stance has praised a remote Indian island tribe for defending ...

New Zealand’s Chinese expatriate community is so afraid of communist China’s reach that many of its members shy ...

HONG KONG/BANGKOK —Fred Perrotta spent four years building a network of Chinese suppliers for his line of trendy ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—After widespread media reports of Beijing’s meddling in Taiwan’s recent elections, U.S. House of Representatives member Ted ...

WASHINGTON—The United States sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Nov. 28 in the third such ...

Former Miss Moscow Oksana Voevodina married Malaysia's King, Sultan Muhammad V—just three years after she won the crown, ...

SEOUL—South Korean prosecutors on Nov. 29 said they have indicted nine people on suspicion of leaking Samsung Electronics ...

MANILA—A Philippine court has sentenced three police officers to up to 40 years in jail for the murder ...