East Asia

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday,...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The future will be written in the Indo-Pacific and now is the time for the United States...

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first leg...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will next month double its limit on foreign arrivals to 20,000 a day, the top government...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce an increase in defense spending at a summit...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Friday it was achieving "good results" in its fight against its...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden may talk with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the...

KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said he pledged 1 billion euros ($1.06 billion) in grants to...

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries...

(Reuters) - China wants to expand the group of emerging economies known as BRICS, in the first shake up of...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan expressed "dissatisfaction and regret" over the World Health Organization's failure to invite it to attend an...

By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON/SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Joe Biden will visit Japan and South Korea on...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will double fiscal aid for Ukraine to $600 million in a coordinated move with the World Bank...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Health authorities in Shanghai faced "huge" pressure to keep China's most...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining the actions...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai achieved its long-awaited milestone of three consecutive days with no...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business groups on Tuesday criticized the Biden administration's Taiwan arms sales policy, arguing in a public...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has mobilised its military to distribute COVID medications and deployed more than 10,000...

LONDON (Reuters) -Measures taken in North Korea to fight the first reported COVID-19 outbreak could have "devastating" consequences for human...