Protests erupted across Myanmar on Thursday ahead of the planned visit of rotating Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, with activists angered over what they see as his support for the military regi…

A senior Vietnamese health official has pledged to return a donation given by a COVID testing company as part of a growing bribery scandal that has already ensnared several corporate executives and government workers, Vietnamese sources say.
Nguyen Van…

A group of relatives of detained or disappeared Uyghurs in China filed a criminal complaint with a Turkish prosecutor’s office on Tuesday accusing 112 Chinese government officials of committing genocide, crimes against humanity, torture and rape in the…

Han Xiu is a writer and former professor at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute and Johns Hopkins University who has published more than 50 books in a career spanning some 40 years. Born in Manhattan in 1946 to U.S. military attache Willie…

Leaders of Japan and Australia signed at a virtual summit on Thursday a new agreement that paves the way for future defense cooperation between the two countries – a move that analysts viewed as a response to a rising China.
Experts familiar with the n…

Authorities in Hong Kong have partially closed the city’s borders to international travel amid a growing wave of infections with the omicron variant of COVID-19.
Passenger flights from the U.K., U.S., Australia and Canada have been banned from landing …