Asia Pacific

North Korea has expelled the U.S. Army private who illegally crossed over the demilitarized zone from South Korea this summer, leading to his detention in the Communist state. Authorities in...

Citing people with knowledge of the matter, the report said Hui Ka Yan, who founded Evergrande in 1996 in the southern city of Guangzhou, was taken away by police earlier...

WELLINGTON, Sept 27 – Rural voter anger at New Zealand’s environmental policies to tackle climate change and reduce carbon emissions may contribute to a return of right-wing parties to power...

HANOI, Sept 25 – The U.N. human rights office has expressed concern about the arrest of a Vietnamese green energy expert, who had worked with U.N. and U.S. agencies, just...

BEIJING/TAPEI, Sept 27 – China said on Wednesday its recent series of drills near Taiwan aimed at combating the “arrogance” of separatist forces, while the frontrunner to be Taiwan’s next...

MANILA, Sept 27 – The coastguard of the Philippines urged the country’s fishermen on Wednesday to keep operating at the disputed Scarborough Shoal and other sites in the South China...

28,000 Armenians have left Karabakh Roads choked out of the enclave Death toll from fuel depot fire rises US urges Azerbaijan to allow in observers and aid GORIS, Armenia, Sept...

A week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bombshell allegations linking India to the June killing of a Canadian Sikh activist, the diplomatic crisis shows no signs of petering out.  Sikh...

The three-way talks – attended by deputy and assistant ministers from the three countries – were seen as an attempt to ease Beijing’s concerns over Washington’s deepening security ties with...

TAIPEI, Sept 26 – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday called on Australia to support its bid to join a pan-Pacific free trade pact during a meeting with a group...