China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years...

Shares are mostly lower in Europe and Asia as markets count down to the end of a painful year for investors, with no end in sight to uncertainties stemming from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine...

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy...

Companies have welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity, while Japan announced restrictions on visitors from the...

Shares have advanced in Asia in thin holiday trading, with markets in Europe, some Asian cities and the U.S. closed...

Large swaths of Japan are seeing heavy snow since last week, killing 17 and leaving hundreds of homes without power...

World shares are mostly higher after modest gains on Wall Street...

Australia's foreign minister is in China for talks seeking to mend a long break in high-level ties that have prompted trade sanctions and political frictions...

Wang Yu has already been arrested, imprisoned and harassed by the Chinese Communist Party for her work as a human rights lawyer representing activists, Uyghur scholars and Falun Gong practitioners...

Asian stock markets have slid further amid gloom about weaker global economic growth as central banks raise interest rates to cool inflation...