NORTH ASIA Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen here during the 2016 nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., met with U.S....

NORTH ASIA Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, seen here visiting the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York last March,...

NORTHEAST ASIA Heavy exposure to mercury, a toxic heavy metal, can cause the rare neurological Minamata disease, characterized by numbness...

NORTHEAST ASIA Flowers and post-it notes adorn Seoul’s Itaewon district subway station, where a deadly crowd crush killed 159, mostly...

NORTHEAST ASIA The controversial Yasukuni Shrine that venerates Japan’s war dead is a point of contention between Japan and South...

NORTHEAST ASIA Protesters before the U.S. White House call for China to stop sending North Korean defectors back to Pyongyang,...

SOUTH ASIA Supporters of the Communist Party in Nepal (Maoist) go out to the streets in the capital city of...

NORTHEAST ASIA Taiwan’s exclusion from the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly has prompted renewed calls for its...

SOUTH ASIA A teacher guides a student during a lesson at Durbar High School, the oldest school in Nepal. Across...

SOUTH ASIA Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party stage a rally to mark the opposition group’s 45th founding anniversary in...

From the ASEAN appealing to the Myanmar junta to de-escalate its violent takeover, rights groups calling out the unrelenting atrocities...

Amid an annual commemoration and an upcoming U.S. visit in Asia this September, rights groups in the region have urged...