Asia

Hundreds of flights at one of China’s busiest airports were cancelled Tuesday as Shanghai raced to bring a local coronavirus outbreak under…

For months, India has been struggling to control the coronavirus pandemic with limited success. The country of 1.3 billion people has the…

Two nuclear-armed powers, both run by nationalist governments at a time of economic tension, are once again squaring off along their shared…

Cai Xia is no stranger to defying expectations. During her years at the Chinese Communist Party’s top training center and think tank,…

Kim Jong Un has reportedly given his sister, Kim Yo Jong, partial authority to oversee “general state affairs” in order to ease…

It has become a common phenomenon in the digital age: undiscovered talent finds fame online. But this tech-centric, rags-to-riches story isn’t quite…

Indian PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. Hindu mobs demolished…

China has said Hong Kong will suspend extradition treaties with Britain, Canada and Australia, after they took similar steps over the territory’s…

Jun Wei Yeo, an ambitious and freshly enrolled Singaporean PhD student, was no doubt delighted when he was invited to give a…

A new share index focused on China’s technology giants has been launched by Hong Kong’s stock market. The Hang Seng Tech Index…