Asia & Pacific

BRISBANE, Australia—Annette Lu, a former vice president of Taiwan, the Republic of China, is no stranger to conflict and the games governments play. She could guess but was a little ...

HONG KONG—In what is being referred to by some as a "flat-swap gate," Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs ...

Stories of death and injury from smartphones and devices have sparked concern over the use of unauthorized and third-party ...

An Australian woman has posted graphic images of injuries she allegedly sustained while being sexually assaulted by a ...

MINAMIASO, Japan— U.S. airlifts were delivering water, bread, ready-to-eat food and other emergency supplies Monday to a remote ...

SEOUL, South Korea— South Korea's president said Monday that there are signs that North Korea is preparing for ...

Following the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, residents in the city of Fukuoka noticed an odd phenomenon: ...

Eleven people remained missing Sunday in southern Japan from two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people, as the ...

MASHIKI, Japan—Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a ...

A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan on April 16 at 1:25 a.m. local time—a day after a 6.5 ...

A missile launch by North Korea is reported to have failed.  The isolationist state is presumed to have ...

A video shows a baby rescued from a collapsed home after a major earthquake hit Japan near the ...

Six people were injured on a plane during a bout of turbulence, and shocking photos of the aftermath ...

An elderly Christian woman was whipped 30 times in public with a rattan cane for selling alcohol, which ...

TOKYO — At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down ...

MANILA, Philippines—In a military buildup certain to inflame tensions with China, the United States said Thursday it has ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan on April 14. There have also been reports of aftershocks.

Hong Kong has long been known as an international money-laundering hub, especially for mainland China.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean voters handed President Park Geun-hye a stunning political setback by denying her ...

Drunk driving may lead to people to a morgue--as a legal punishment in part of Thai officials so ...

The wild boar population near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have bred uncontrollably in the past five ...

Abraham Lincoln died almost 150 years ago, but North Korea's propaganda department decided to bring the 16th president ...

A senior intelligence official escaped to South Korea last year in an unusual senior-level desertion, said Seoul officials ...

Hackers almost succeeded in stealing US$951 million from the central bank of Bangladesh in early February. The latest ...

Russia on Saturday defended its policy of selling arms to both Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose military forces have ...

Philippine military officials vowed Sunday to "destroy" the Abu Sayyaf extremist group with more offensives after fierce fighting ...

A powerful earthquake rattled Pakistan's capital and other cities across the country on Sunday, causing panic among people ...