East Asia

LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Liz Truss urged Iran on Wednesday to sign up to the 2015 nuclear deal,...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian government officials will not attend the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing next year, Prime Minister...

(Corrects conversion of 70,000 hectares in third paragraph to 172,973 acres, not 1.73 mln acres) By Agustinus Beo Da Costa...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not require stricter domestic COVID restrictions in the run-up to Christmas because vaccines had put...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's president on Monday called his country a U.S. ally that backs Taiwan over China, emphasizing...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Monday said it wants the private sector to operate with full information...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday ahead of President...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will not send an official delegation to the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing in...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Sunday reported three more Omicron coronavirus variant cases, bringing its total confirmed so far...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported a record daily 5,352 new COVID-19 infections and 70 deaths, while...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Any move by China to invade Taiwan would have "terrible consequences," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The government of incoming Honduran president Xiomara Castro does not plan to establish diplomatic...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea announced on Friday that people visiting restaurants and cinemas and other public...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top representative in the semiautonomous gambling hub of Macau will begin advising the former Portuguese...

By Parisa Hafezi and Humeyra Pamuk VIENNA/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The United States and Iran both sounded pessimistic on Thursday about the...

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - Countries complaining about the U.S. Summit for Democracy need to double down on democracy...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Thursday reversed a ban on inbound flight reservations, revealing confusion between government agencies and the public...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's tobacco regulator issued on Thursday draft rules governing e-cigarettes, moving the product away from a regulatory grey...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Threats and coercion by China towards Taiwan increase the need for the United States to help Taiwan...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's foreign ministry summoned Japan's ambassador in Beijing for an "emergency meeting" on Wednesday, after former Japanese Prime...