CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Brad Lendon, CNN Japan on Tuesday announced plans to develop and build an array of advanced long-range missiles as it bolsters its defenses amid…

By Helen Regan, Sandi Sidhu, Salai TZ and Anna Coren, CNN Relatives were still recovering the charred bodies and limbs of victims killed in a…

By Chris Lau, CNN A severe sandstorm has cloaked Beijing and China’s northeastern regions for the fourth time in a month forcing some residents…

By Brad Lendon, CNN For the first time, the Chinese navy appears to have simulated strikes by aircraft carrier-based warplanes on Taiwan, as drills…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest…

By Heather Chen, CNN An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger…

By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy has sent a destroyer close to a contested island in the South China Sea that Beijing has fortified with military…

By Wayne Chang The Covid-19 virus may have originated from humans, a Chinese scientist has claimed. The genetic sequences of viral samples taken from…

By Eric Cheung, Larry Register and CNN’s Beijing bureau, CNN China said Sunday it was simulating precision attacks on key targets in Taiwan as…

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN Her father was ousted from power by a military coup in 2006. Her aunt’s government suffered a similar fate…

By Heather Chen There’s an old Chinese saying that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” Roughly translated it means the…

By Xiaofei Xu, Wayne Chang, Jade Wurapa and Heather Chen, CNN A Chinese court on Friday sentenced six people to jail for their roles in the human…

By Wayne Chang, Sophie Jeong, Heather Chen, Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN China has started three days of military exercises around Taiwan after…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN North Korea claimed on Saturday to have tested a new type of underwater drone it said was “capable of…

By Andrew McNicol and Andrew Raine, CNN It was a Chinese dream driven by the same sort of ambition that has seen this country rise from poverty to…

By Simone McCarthy, Jake Kwon, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has slapped sanctions on two American organizations that hosted Taiwan’s…