Asia & Pacific

New Zealanders on the east coast of the North Island felt a "massive jolt" on Saturday afternoon when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck. Thousands of Kiwis near Hawkes Bay have ...

Hyundai Motors' Genesis said on Thursday it would phase out all gas-powered cars by the end of the ...

Taiwan warned in its annual defense report that the Chinese regime could “paralyze” the island’s defenses and fully ...

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Sept. 3 that he will not be running for the Liberal ...

Australia is considering an ambitious sporting diplomacy mission to deepen engagement in the South Pacific region, amid increasing ...

A man inspired by ISIS has carried out a terrorist attack at a supermarket in Auckland on Friday ...

A New Zealand citizen who had tested positive for the CCP virus was taken into custody on Thursday in central ...

JAKARTA—The Indonesian Navy says it has seized a Panamanian-flagged tanker in the waters off Riau islands after the ...

COLOMBO—An elephant in Sri Lanka gave birth to twins on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 80 ...

Over 108,000 Australians have signed a petition to the federal Parliament against the use of vaccines on adolescents ...

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration has extended for one year a Trump-era ban on the use of U.S. passports for ...

Moderna said its Japanese distributor will recall doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Japan after an investigation revealed ...

The Japanese government put another batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines on hold after a black material was found ...

SEOUL—South Korea's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and ...

Year 12 students in New South Wales (NSW) will spend their last weeks of high school at home ...

The U.S. Treasury Department said the sale of Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. to a Chinese private equity firm poses ...

A Pakistani Counter-Terrorism Division (CTD) unit killed 11 suspected members of the ISIS terrorist group on Monday during ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country's notorious Evin prison, the ...

Taiwan launched the first international streaming platform on Aug. 30 to reach the English-speaking world, as Beijing continues ...

A Chinese branch of a U.S.-based multinational electronics testing company has been issuing fake reports for China-made goods entering ...

North Korea appears to have revamped a nuclear reactor used to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, according to ...

Japanese authorities suspended another 1 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on Aug. 29 at distribution centers in ...

VIENNA/SEOUL—North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for ...

For months, Chinese authorities have been cracking down on the country’s powerful internet sector, targeting an array of ...

The majority of the American public supports a range of U.S. policies in support of Taiwan, including the ...

New Zealand, in a nationwide lockdown battling an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant, reported 83 ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh—At least 22 people died when a Bangladeshi passenger boat sank with more than 100 aboard, and ...