East Asia

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - HarperCollins on Wednesday settled a libel dispute with Russian businessman Roman Abramovich over a...

By Ju-min Park and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan reported on Wednesday its first instance of community spread infection...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday called on shareholders to recognise...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed three convicts on Tuesday, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand expressed grave concern over erosion of democracy in...

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is a "wanderer" that will eventually come home and not a chess piece to be played with,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Beijing cyberspace regulator said on Monday that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) had asked it...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China would not fear confrontation with the United States but would welcome cooperation if it is mutually beneficial,...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Prospects for democracy in Hong Kong are "bright", China said on Monday in a white paper, a day...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will visit Beijing on Dec. 20-23 to brief Chinese leaders on...

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Four people were killed and another eight injured on Saturday when part of a bridge ramp...

Tokyo (Reuters) - A Japanese cabinet official said on Sunday that victims of a fire in a clinic that claimed...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka OSAKA (Reuters) - The doctor running the Japanese psychiatry clinic at the centre of a suspected arson...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Two major referendums in Taiwan on whether to ban the import of pork containing leanness-enhancing additive and...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka OSAKA (Reuters) -Mourners placed bouquets of flowers and offerings of beer and water on Saturday at the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday he believed pressure would grow on China to...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) -At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire swept through a psychiatry...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Friday said Australia had been subject to "economic coercion" by China through...

By Andrius Sytas and Gabriel Crossley VILNIUS/BEIJING (Reuters) - Lithuania is to ask European leaders for help against Chinese pressure...

TOKYO (Reuters) -China's envoy to Japan, Kong Xuanyou, on Thursday said the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics had been unfortunately "used...