Asia & Pacific

A growing sense of desperation is fueling a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from western Burma, with the number who have fled by boat since communal violence broke out two ...

While protesters clash with police on the streets of Hong Kong, an unseen battle is being fought on ...

SYDNEY—The New South Wales Parliament has passed changes to electoral funding laws aimed at stamping out corruption on ...

American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into ...

The missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 370, could be found using a new method, according to a scientist. ...

Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route Sunday after rescuers, overwhelmed with last week's ...

North Korean and South Korean troops exchanged fire Sunday along their heavily fortified border in the second such ...

A rescue helicopter spotted nine more bodies Saturday on a trekking trail in northern Nepal, bringing the death ...

The satellite company that has been instrumental in providing information about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has said ...

Search teams in army helicopters rescued dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and recovered more bodies of victims of ...

This week Professor Ball outlines his concerns for Australia, which he says has been distracted by military demands ...

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck southeast of Chiba, Japan, and it was felt as far away as Tokyo. The ...

A Japanese governor said Wednesday the country should not restart any nuclear plants until the cause of the ...

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 likely "spiraled" into the remote southern Indian Ocean in March after it ran ...

After an avalanche of data breaches, South Korea's national identity card system has been raided so thoroughly by ...

CANBERRA—The world may be focused on the "war on terror", but the arms build up in North-East Asia ...

Valerie Weigmann has been crowned Miss World 2014 Philippines after the competition on Sunday. Weigmann, 24, is a ...

A New Zealand woman who lost her husband on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March, rejected ...

A powerful cyclone was pounding a large swath of India's eastern seaboard with heavy rain and strong winds ...

Pakistan said Friday this week's "unprovoked firing" by India set back the peace process between the two nuclear-armed ...

The missing Malaysia Airlines plane hasn't been found but a report from the Australian government says that the ...

North Korea publicly acknowledged the existence of its labor camps for the first time Tuesday, an admission that ...

Two suspected U.S. drone strikes on Taliban compounds in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Tuesday killed ...

As students continue their protest on the streets of Hong Kong, a battle is taking place beneath the ...

South Korea's president is cracking down on rumors in cyberspace in a campaign that threatens the popularity of ...

North Korea may have a woman at the helm--Kim Jong-Un's sister Kim Yo Jong--according to a rash of ...

North Korea's capital Pyongyang is reportedly under lockdown amid claims of a coup attempt against dictator Kim Jong ...