Taiwan has sought a trade deal with the United States, a major market, since 1994. Its chipmaking prowess offers new leverage
Ocean Lotus, a hacking group with suspected links to the Vietnamese government, has led spyware attacks on human rights activists, Amnesty International says
Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 24 that police have ignored normal protocol during most armed drug busts
Chinese officials are bracing for conflict along the Sino-Vietnamese boundary partly because a disputed tract of sea lies beside it
Pentagon says Chinese navy submarines, amphibious warfare ships, aircraft carriers and more make it the world’s largest maritime force
Western governments see an urgency to help the US government reduce Beijing's reach in the waterway that supports marine shipping and fossil fuel, scholars say
An untold number of Taiwanese have moved back to the relatively disease-free Asian island last year after decades abroad; they eat out, travel and hire locals, all boosts to the economy
A Chinese legislative body approved a law January 22 authorizing coast guard ships to fire on foreign vessels if needed
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met just weeks ago with Myanmar's top general, Min Aung Hlaing, now country's military leader
Taiwanese coast guard vessels were sent to disperse about 4,000 Chinese dredgers in Taiwanese waters in the first 10 months of 2020
Many among the 127,000 people living in Kinmen County, which comprises two inhabited islets, say they’re used to seeing China a few kilometers away, buying its water imports and hosting its tourists
Analysts say some of China’s 11 upper Mekong River watershed dams have contributed to droughts since 2019 in downstream Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam
The homegrown drilling platform’s deployment at a South China Sea deep-water gas field will show Chinese resolve to secure energy at home and remind other countries of its maritime influence
Government approval ratings have sagged as hospitals flood with patients and the Southeast Asian country weathers a two-week stay-home order
Government agents in some countries used stay-home orders to squelch political dissent or bar marginal population groups from aid, human rights groups say
Chinese officials and their families face US travel restrictions, while 60 Chinese companies are curbed from doing normal business in the US
Defense monitors say China’s Yulin Navy Base has grown over the past year or more to accommodate aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines
Credited with successfully controlling COVID-19 outbreak, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung urges vigilance despite expanding inoculation campaigns
After four years of warming toward Taiwan, despite China, U.S. President Donald Trump’s government throws out pro-China rules that have limited visits between senior-level officials
Asian leaders are used to U.S. counterparts telling them how to run a democracy. After Wednesday's Capitol Hill melee, they wonder why
Load more
