East Asia

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Earlier this month Chinese truck driver Dong Zhigang finished a job in the...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -A Taiwanese activist jailed in China returned to Taiwan on Friday after completing a five-year sentence. Li Ming-che,...

By Kantaro Komiya and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is preparing to attend a gathering of financial leaders from the...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States are likely to hold a bilateral finance ministers' meeting next week on...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - G20 host Indonesia said on Thursday Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov had confirmed he plans to attend...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A group of six U.S. lawmakers, including chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez,...

By David Kirton SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's financial hub Shanghai reported over 27,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, a new high, a...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Program and World Trade Organization on...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is trying out reduced quarantine times for overseas arrivals and close contacts of positive cases in...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is in only the early stages of a COVID-19 outbreak and domestic cases will keep rising...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's incoming President Yoon Suk-yeol picked close adviser Park Jin to be foreign...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will work toward realising a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and families of...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol invited disgraced former President Park Geun-hye to attend his inauguration...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's military released a handbook on civil defence for the first time on Tuesday, giving citizens survival...

(Reuters) - Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv came under heavy shelling on Monday, causing multiple casualties including one dead child,...

(Reuters) -Russia on Monday demanded Google take immediate steps to remove "threats" against Russians after it said Google Translate had...

By Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday asked Seoul for any military aid...

By Hyonhee Shin and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's incoming President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday named Choo Kyung-ho to...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved...

DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden should lift some sanctions on Iran to show his goodwill towards reviving the international...