SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Officials in South Korea tried to calm public fears amid concerns about a faltering pandemic response as daily cases and deaths reached...
TOKYO — Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaning their homes after a sleepless night following a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the northern Japanese...
TOKYO — A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory. The Japan Meteorological...
Leonora Buenviaje has been making dresses out of waste materials for the past seven years and says wearing clothes made from such items as recycled newspapers,...
ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN — Turkmenistan established a political dynasty Tuesday, as authorities said the son of the Central Asian country’s leader won its presidential election after an...
China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the...
China’s government hopes to generate as many as 13 million new jobs this year to help reverse a painful economic slowdown, the country’s number two leader...
Sri Lanka’s largest private fuel retailer hiked diesel prices more than 40 percent on Friday, compounding the hardship for ordinary people in the country’s worst economic...
Mainland China reported 402 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections with confirmed symptoms for March. 9, official data showed on Thursday, nearly doubling from the daily count a...
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea performed data transmission and other key tests needed to develop a spy satellite, state media said Sunday, in the second...
India plans to avoid condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as it needs Russian weapons in its standoff with China, and officials in New Delhi are...