The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company has been executed on charges of taking bribes in one of the most severe penalties imposed in a recent corruption case...

A World Health Organization team is visiting a hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago...

Asian stock markets have fallen after Wall Street rebounded from its biggest loss in nearly three months...

Global shares have fallen as a reality check sets in about longtime economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, giving Wall Street its worst day since October...

Efforts to dissuade Chinese from traveling for Lunar New Year appeared to be working...

South Korea has reported 599 new coronavirus cases, the highest in 10 days, as health workers scramble to slow infections at religious facilities, which have been a major source throughout the pandemi...

A draft investigation report into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown says it has detected dangerously high levels of radioactive contamination at two of the three reactors, adding to concerns about d...

Indonesia says it has detained the Iranian and Chinese crewmembers of two tankers that were seized for illegally transferring oil in Indonesian waters...

Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two coronavirus cases linked to a hospital...