Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine have asked rescuers to send pickles and porridge...

The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in six months on July 23...

Coronavirus infections in the Philippines have surged past 500,000 in a new bleak milestone with the government facing criticism for failing to immediately launch a vaccination program amid a global s...

China reports its economy grew 2.3% in 2020 as a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic accelerated while the United States, Europe and Japan struggled with disease outbreaks...

Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong is heading back to prison after a South Korean court handed him a two and a half-year sentence for his involvement in a 2016 corruption scandal...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is vowing to get the pandemic under control and hold the already postponed Olympics this summer with ample coronavirus protection...

Chinese state media say 12 out of 22 workers trapped for a week after an explosion in a gold mine are alive...