Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street led by technology companies...

Thailand has a positive international image when it comes to the rights and lifestyles of LGBTQ communities, but a new report by Human Rights Watch says the reality may be more precarious...

In February, Myanmar's military took over the country's government and its bank accounts, including those that receive hundreds of millions of dollars each year from a gas field called Yadana...

A United Nations report says the prolonged pandemic and surging prices are undermining food security for millions of people in Asia...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will expand its military and economic relationships with partners in Asia to push back against China's increasing assertiveness in the Ind...

Since taking power after his father’s death in 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has spent 10 years erasing doubts that he was too young and weak to extend his family’s brutal dynastic grip over t...

Global stock markets are mostly higher ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting this week that is expected to accelerate plans to wind down U.S. economic stimulus after November inflation hit a 39-year high...

The top U.S. diplomat in China says the countries had a very good year for collaboration on dealing with climate change, but Washington is still pushing Beijing to adopt more ambitious carbon reductio...

New coronavirus infections in South Korea have exceeded 7,000 for the third consecutive day as the worst surge since the start of the pandemic overwhelms hospitals and depletes health care workforce...

Nicaragua's decision to sever diplomatic links with Taiwan and recognize China leaves the self-governing island democracy with just 14 diplomatic allies...