Amnesty International has urgently called for international pressure and an immediate U.N. investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's ant...

Protesters in Hong Kong take their message to visitors from mainland China...

A Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker is expressing fears that the situation could worsen after police announced the arrests of more than a dozen people following protests earlier this week...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested 12 people involved in a pro-democracy protest that took place Monday morning ahead of the storming of the city's legislative building later in the day...

Park Yoo-chun, a former member of the South Korean boy band JYJ, has received a 10-month suspended sentence for illegal drug use...

Indonesian police say they have arrested a man believed to be the leader of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network who has eluded capture since 2003...

A few hundred protesters opposed to legislation they fear would reduce Hong Kong's judicial independence have rallied outside the Justice Department...

A Hong Kong court has thrown out former chief executive Donald Tsang's conviction for misconduct relating to a property deal while in office...

A deadline imposed by activist groups for Hong Kong's government to meet demands including the scrapping of controversial extradition legislation has passed without an official response...

A Chinese court reports former Interpol President Meng Hongwei has confessed to accepting more than $2 million in bribes and expressed regret for his crime at a hearing...