CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Heather Chen, CNN Malaysia will abolish the mandatory death penalty, the government said Friday, in a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups as…

By Helen Regan, CNN A team of international scientists tasked with understanding how the coronavirus pandemic began released their first report on…

By Nectar Gan and Steven Jiang, CNN Shanghai will carry out Covid-19 testing on more than half of its 25 million residents this weekend, fueling…

By Helen Regan and Esha Mitra, CNN India is trying to contain the diplomatic fallout as outrage grows in the Muslim world following derogatory…

By Steven Jiang and CNN’s Beijing bureau A Chinese military plane crashed in a residential area in central China on Thursday, killing at least…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Officials from China and Cambodia broke ground on a controversial, Chinese-funded upgrade of a naval base in southern…

By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN Torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 32 people, impacted millions of residents and caused…

By Nectar Gan, CNN China is offering its citizens cash rewards of up to and above 100,000 yuan ($15,000) for tip-offs about people who endanger…

By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Korea and the United States put on an aerial show of force to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday,…

By Nectar Gan, CNN For decades, the Chinese government has sought to erase all memories of its bloody military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square…

Story by Reuters India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Sunday it had suspended its spokeswoman Nupur Sharma in response to…

By Gawon Bae and Simone McCarthy, CNN South Korea and the United States responded to North Korea’s launch of eight missiles Sunday by firing…

By Sophie Jeong, Teele Rebane and Sana Noor Haq, CNN At least 49 people have been killed and more than 300 injured, after a fire tore through a…

By Helen Regan and Yong Xiong, CNN China successfully launched another manned mission to its new space station on Sunday, sending three astronauts…

By Nectar Gan, CNN The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of…