East Asia

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping called for efforts to "break new ground" in military equipment and weapons development...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is demanding faster and more accessible COVID-19 testing services in its latest effort to reinforce a...

By Ben Blanchard and Ann Wang KINMEN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Chen Ing-wen strides up to a rocky outcrop some 3...

By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean former president Roh Tae-woo, a decorated war veteran who...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former princess Mako, who on Tuesday married her college sweetheart and left the royal family, said...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen "frankly raised issues of concern" in a virtual meeting on Monday with...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea unveiled on Monday a three-phase strategy to get back to normal from...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -President Xi Jinping vowed on Monday that China would always uphold world peace and...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Monday that Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi will meet a...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Parts of northern China are bracing for more COVID-19 curbs as a wave of cases raises concerns...

(This October 24 story corrects wording to 'century', not 'decade', in lead paragraph.) TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese and U.S. officials...

By Trevor Hunnicutt BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The United States would come to Taiwan's defense and has a commitment to defend...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Friday offered the United States' "resolute" commitment to NATO and...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A new COVID-19 outbreak has spurred parts of China to increase restrictions on movement, with the capital...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing warned Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Friday that nobody should harbour any illusions about the...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry urged the United States on Friday to avoid sending any wrong signals to proponents...

(Reuters) -Finance ministers from Asia-Pacific trade group APEC met on Friday and agreed to step up efforts to expand COVID-19...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's position remains the same, which is it will neither give in to pressure nor "rashly advance"...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden had been right to withdraw...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is moving towards excluding the Taliban from its list of extremist organisations, President Vladimir Putin said...