East Asia

By Akiko Okamoto, Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the Japan Medical Association called on...

By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Wuhan city will test its 12 million residents for the coronavirus after confirming...

By David Brunnstrom and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The plan by Myanmar's ruling generals to hold elections in two years...

LONDON (Reuters) - Myanmar should return to a democratically elected government, Britain said on Monday, after military ruler Min Aung...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The death toll from last month's floods in the central Chinese province of Henan rose to 302 as...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Unvaccinated Hong Kong government employees, as well as education and health workers will soon have to...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's education ministry said on Monday that Huai Jinpeng has been appointed as its new party chief....

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA (Reuters) - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting...

By James Pomfret and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -The first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law was...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is "deeply concerned with the increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment, and intimidation of U.S. and other...

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's new ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang, on Wednesday wished the United States victory...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The defence lawyer for the first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law argued on...

By Hyonhee Shin and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Wednesday reported 1,896 new COVID-19 cases for Tuesday, its...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan authorities are investigating a former deputy defence minister and several other serving and...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South and North Korea have restored hotlines that Pyongyang severed a year ago when ties...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which...

By James Pomfret and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -The first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law was...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three Hong Kong judges are expected to deliver a verdict on Tuesday in the trial of...

(Corrects grammar in headline) TAIPEI (Reuters) - The Czech Republic is donating 30,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan, the...