Asia Pacific
China, Taiwan brace for impact as super typhoon Doksuri nears
China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvest while Taiwan suspended annual military drills as super ...US soldier flees into North Korea in new crisis over the nuclear-armed state
The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of an American soldier who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border ...South Korea landslides, floods kill more than 20, over 4,000 evacuated
Twenty-two people have died, 14 were missing and thousands evacuated in South Korea as of Saturday, according to ministry data, as a third ...North Korea fires suspected long range ballistic missile
North Korea conducted a missile test with its longest ever flight time off its east coast on Wednesday, as leaders of South ...Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking ...South Koreans become a year or two younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting ...Biden calls Chinese President Xi a dictator
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called Xi Jinping a dictator, a day after top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken visited Beijing to stabilize ...Blinken in China for rare trip amid frosty ties and dim hopes for progress
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began meetings in Beijing on Sunday, the first top American diplomat to visit China in five ...Taiwan sends up fighters as Chinese warplanes cross strait’s median line
Taiwan’s air force scrambled into action on Sunday after spotting 10 Chinese warplanes crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, ...Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks
The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with the international ...