East Asia

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has made progress in its fight against drought, and rice planting is...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - After political science student Noh Seo-jin finished class on Tuesday, the 19-year-old headed out...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States is planning on "cooperation" between its National Guard and Taiwan's military, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen...

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Following two months of frustration, despair and economic loss, Shanghai's draconian COVID-19 lockdown ended...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Zambian counterpart in a telephone call on Tuesday that China was willing...

By Casey Hall and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai authorities on Tuesday began dismantling fences around housing compounds and...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's air force suspended flight training of new pilots on Tuesday after a jet trainer crashed killing its...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's capital Beijing reported 16 new domestically transmitted symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 30, up from eight...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai reported 22 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for May 30, down from 61 a day...

By Brenda Goh and Ryan Woo SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai on Monday announced an end to its two-month long COVID-19 lockdown,...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai authorities will lift the city's two-month long lockdown from midnight on Wednesday, allowing private cars including...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Group of Seven major economies jointly condemned on Monday North Korea's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test...

(Reuters) - Saudi King Salman appointed minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir as the kingdom's climate envoy, a...

By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China...

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -When Shanghai began its draconian COVID-19 lockdown two months ago, the French restaurant where...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Solomon Islands on civil air transport,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Border areas in China's northeastern province of Jilin, which shares a long frontier with coronavirus-hit North Korea,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will take firm steps to restart idled nuclear power plants to make maximum use of nuclear...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul on June 3 for...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes relations with the Solomon Islands can be a model for other Pacific Island countries, Chinese...