Thailand’s Cabinet has approved draft laws on prevention of torture and forced disappearances, a measure that has long been sought by human rights activists...

Global shares are up as investors look past reports of surging coronavirus cases in many countries and focus on evidence of an economic recovery...

Global shares have advanced, tracking gains in Asia and on Wall Street overnight...

A South Korean activist claims to have launched hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon across the border with North Korea...

Asian shares are mostly higher, tracking a late rally on Wall Street led by technology shares...

A South Korean activist claims to have launched hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon across the border with North Korea...

South Korea is urging North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border amid high tensions between the two countries...

China says it is not holding any Indian soldiers in the Himalayan border standoff between the two countries, but has not directly addressed media reports that China released 10 of them late Thursday...

Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with spying in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S. extradition request for a Huawei executive...