The United States has blocked efforts by a U.N. agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its airspace to foreign flights, three sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The U.S. move ...
China's leaders want more babies, but local officials don't seem to have got the memo
Facing a future demographic crisis and a graying society, China's leaders are desperately trying to persuade couples to have more children. But bureaucrats don't seem to have gotten the message, fining a couple in a recent widely publicized case for having a third child against ...
China surveillance firm tracking millions in Xinjiang, researcher says
A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert. An online database containing names, ID card numbers, birth dates and location data was left ...
China rebuffs Germany's call for U.S. missile pact with Russia
Abe is believed to be setting his sights on a broad treaty agreement in June when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Japan.
Some rural Hong Kong men with special land rights call for end to colonial system
Sitting in the spacious courtyard of an 18th-century ancestral hall belonging to his clan, William Liu defiantly rejects a lucrative birthright that his special status as one of Hong Kong's male indigenous villagers affords him. Liu hails from the rural northern part of Hong Kong ...
Wearing only underpants, Pavel Kalina twisted his body up a wooden pole before performing a handstand at the top in the first world championships of an ancient Indian sport. The 55-year-old Czech practices Mallakhamb, a gymnastics-like discipline that originated in western India in the 12th ...
K-pop and fancy sneakers: Kim Jong Un's cultural revolution
Dancers in hot pants. Factories pumping out Air Jordan lookalikes. TV dramas that are actually fun to watch. North Korean pop culture, long dismissed by critics as a kitschy throwback to the dark days of Stalinism, is getting a major upgrade under leader Kim Jong ...
The Hong Kong government on Friday proposed an amendment to allow the extradition of fugitives to jurisdictions including mainland China and Taiwan. The proposal comes in the wake of a murder case in Taiwan in which the prime suspect could not be extradited from ...
North Korea on Saturday marked the birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il with no outward provocation against the United States, in the run-up to a second summit between the two countries later this month. National flags and placards have been placed along major thoroughfares ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to accept the dismantlement and inspection of a high-profile nuclear plant, a South Korean presidential adviser said, suggesting a possible point of compromise in upcoming talks with President Donald Trump. Moon Chung-in, a special adviser for foreign ...
India warns of 'crushing response' to Kashmir suicide attack
India's prime minister warned of a "crushing response" to the suicide bombing of a paramilitary convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 41 people and was the deadliest in the divided region's volatile history. Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed the blame for Thursday's bombing squarely on ...
South Korean TV station apologizes over celebrity spycam controversy
A major South Korean TV station was forced to apologize after airing a performance by a well-known rapper in which he appeared to endorse secretly filmed pornography, as the country battles a growing epidemic of so-called spycam videos. The show by San E, who performed ...
