China is expanding pandemic lockdowns, including in a city where factory workers clashed with police this week, as its number of COVID-19 cases hits a daily record...

A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an attempt by its military government to “create a veneer of progress” in the country to sway international opinion...

Myanmar’s military-controlled government says it is releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty to ...

South Korean officials say a New Zealand murder suspect will be extradited within 30 days, about two months after she was arrested in South Korea in connection with two dead children found in suitcase...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has delayed his departure to Southeast Asia's three upcoming summits...

A Hong Kong journalist has lost the appeal against her conviction over making false statements in obtaining information for her investigation of a violent attack during the widespread pro-democracy pr...

Hong Kong customs seized nearly 2 tons of liquid methamphetamine in the city’s biggest-ever meth bust...

A bombing near the front gate of Myanmar’s main prison for political detainees has killed at least eight people, including visitors and prison personnel...

South Korean prosecutors have requested arrest warrants for the former defense minister and coast guard chief in the country’s previous government as they investigate its handling of North Korea’s kil...

An Iranian female competitive climber has left South Korea after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation’s mandatory headscarf covering...