Top diplomats of South Korea and Japan plan to meet their Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week amid a flare-up in tension over trade and history, Seoul’s foreign ministry said yesterday. Foreign ministers Kang Kyung-wha of South Korea, Taro Kono of Japan and

Small Pacific islands nations at risk from rising sea levels lambasted Australia yesterday after it blocked moves at a regional forum to set down tough policies to combat climate change.

New Zealand police launched a manhunt for an armed suspect yesterday after an Australian tourist was found shot dead in a camper van

More than a dozen workers remained missing yesterday after a landslide in southwest China buried a section of railway that was

Chinese state media yesterday vowed there “won’t be a repeat” of the Tiananmen Square crackdown if Beijing moves to quash Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests.

North Korea launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, South Korea’s military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea’s president as “impudent” and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over.

The UN Security Council is due to meet behind closed-doors at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats say.

Taiwan yesterday unveiled its largest defence spending increase in more than a decade amid rising military tensions with its giant

Japan’s new emperor spoke of “deep remorse” yesterday over the country’s wartime past in his first speech to commemorate the end of World War II since his enthronement in May.

Pakistan says three of its soldiers are killed in a cross-border exchange of fire in the contested Kashmir region, but India denies that five of its troops are dead too.

A powerful tropical storm lashes Japan, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that claimed at least one life, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period.

Hong Kong's airport resumes operations, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.

At least 18 people were killed and 14 others missing as Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China yesterday, downing thousands of trees and forcing more than a million people from their homes.

Super Typhoon Lekima slammed into southeastern China, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that knocked out power, downed thousands of trees and forced more than one million people from their homes, state media reports.

China issued a red alert for incoming Super Typhoon Lekima which is expected to batter eastern Zhejiang province early today with high

A court in Kyrgyzstan has ordered the country’s former president to be held in pre-trial detention after he was seized from his

Marine heatwaves are killing coral reefs far more quickly than previously believed, according to a new study released yesterday.

A knife-wielding man stabbed three nurses and a policeman at a hospital in western Japan yesterday, police said, the latest stabbing incident in the country.

Kyrgyzstan’s former president Almazbek Atambayev was detained in a major security operation yesterday, Kyrgyz media said, after clashes between his supporters and law enforcement left one dead and dozens injured.

The Hong Kong office of China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday lodged stern representations with the United States, urging US officials to stop sending wrong signals to the “violent separatists” in Hong Kong.