East Asia

LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab criticised the arrest of members of a pro-democracy group by Hong Kong...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Alok Sharma, president of this year's United Nations COP26 climate change conference, said on Wednesday he had...

(Corrects to "Wednesday" from "Monday" in the lead) TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday officially announced she...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started military drills on the Kuril Islands which will include live firing exercises and involve...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was certain China would try to work...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi spoke by telephone on Tuesday about the...

By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese COVID-19 vaccine minister Taro Kono's chances of becoming the next...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan could get up to 9 million doses of BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine this year, the founder...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - Germany's ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, who was a former foreign policy adviser...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that there would be no political force to talk to...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia will offer tax breaks to stimulate business on a disputed Pacific island chain and make...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday he had decided not to run in the ruling...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy still hopes to hold an ad hoc summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Afghanistan,...

By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) -U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry said he had urged Chinese leaders to reach for...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Global Times newspaper said on Thursday that Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who was convicted of espionage...

By Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) -The first batch of BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Taiwan on Thursday, helped...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan must compile an economic stimulus package worth "tens of trillions of yen" to combat the coronavirus...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China stepped up its reform of public healthcare service pricing mechanisms with the announcement of a pilot programme...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's armed forces can "paralyse" Taiwan's defences and are able to fully monitor its...