South Korean court sentences Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong to 2 ½ years in prison over corruption case...
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North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed decisions made by a major ruling party meeting where leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear deterrent and established plans to salvage a disma...
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China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country’s north...
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A city in northern China is building a 3,000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush...
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President Xi Jinping has asked former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks, one of the most prominent American brands in China, to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations amid a tariff war and tension over tech...
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The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Tru...
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China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast as a World Health Organization team arrived to investigate the origins of the pandemic...
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South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery and other crimes...
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China’s exports rose in 2020 despite pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and a tariff war with Washington, boosting its politically volatile trade surplus to $535 billion, one of the highest ever r...
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Japan is expanding a coronavirus state of emergency for seven more prefectures, affecting more than half the population as infections spread across the country...
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