South Korea’s left-leaning President Moon Jae-in and the public-health architects of one of the world’s successful coronavirus responses resist imposing the tightest restrictions after cases surge.
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Kim Jong Un pauses major weapons tests as he contends with a faltering economy, coronavirus defense and flood damage.
Thai government ordered Facebook to block access to a popular group that scrutinized the royal family’s role in politics, a politically sensitive subject in the country.
The K-pop sensation smashed the one-day record for the most viewed YouTube music video with “Dynamite,” reinforcing the band’s world-wide reach as they continue to make waves in the global music scene.
South Korea, praised for its Covid-19 containment, is having a bout of coronavirus déjà vu, with rising coronavirus cases linked to a large church and the government scrambling to respond.
Allegations of sexual harassment and abuse that have emerged after a former Seoul city mayor was found dead last month in an apparent suicide have forced a new reckoning with the legacy of South Korea’s #MeToo movement.
South Korean health officials are on guard and strengthening prevention measures after the country on Sunday reported its highest daily count of new coronavirus infections in months.
China will supply coronavirus vaccines to Pakistan as part of an agreement for vaccine trials to take place in the South Asian nation, according to Pakistani government officials
South Korea’s largest physicians group plans to strike, protesting a government proposal to increase the number of doctors after the country suffered staffing shortages when coronavirus cases surged earlier this year.
The pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper founder and prominent Beijing critic was released after his arrest triggered an outpouring of support among the opposition as authorities enforce a new national security law.
Jimmy Lai, the publisher of Hong Kong’s widely read pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, was arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion under a new national-security law that Beijing imposed on the city.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar met Taiwan’s leader and praised its democratic system during a rare high-level visit to Taipei.
The Rajapaksa family cemented its grip on Sri Lanka in parliamentary elections, according to results released Friday, gaining enough seats to push through constitutional changes increasing executive power.
The U.S. and South Korea plan to start their third major combined military exercise using computer simulations as early as next week, two years after President Trump ordered field drills be scaled back.
The city’s expatriate community is shrinking, as new restrictions by China on speech and political activities and a tumultuous year of protests have diminished the allure of living and working in the Asian financial hub.
Australia’s second-largest city is imposing a tough new six-week citywide lockdown in a bid to more quickly suppress the spread of the coronavirus despite widespread community transmission.
Two months ago, the coronavirus seemed to be spreading out of control in Pakistan, a poor country of more than 200 million with a weak health-care system. But the country has dramatically reversed course.
The leader of the mysterious church at the center of South Korea’s major coronavirus outbreak was arrested for withholding and falsifying records, which allegedly hobbled early efforts to curb the virus’s spread.
North Korea’s economy grew by 0.4% in 2019, the first time Pyongyang posted positive growth in three years, despite tough international sanctions.
Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate from mainland China, has died.