The discovery could thrust one of the world’s most valuable internet companies into the storm of international condemnation surrounding China’s treatment of its Muslim minorities.

With its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest such facility in the world, the country is hoping to attract top scientific talent.

A growing number are inspired to learn the ancient letters after protests by their kinsfolk in China's Inner Mongolia region.

The issue was raised by the Maldives and Vanuatu at the ICC general assembly in December 2019.

Hundreds looking to escape a Bangladesh refugee camp are believed to have died at sea from beatings, starvation or dehydration.

The spacecraft’s return will mark the first time scientists have obtained fresh samples of lunar rocks since the former Soviet Union’s Luna 24 robot probe ...

The country is targeting the people who are most mobile due to their jobs, as well as regions with the highest number of coronavirus cases.

One of the world’s largest palm oil companies said allegations of sexual harassment on one of its plantations had already been withdrawn and the case ...

South Korea's highest priority is securing more hospital beds to handle a record surge in coronavirus cases and blunt a corresponding spike in deaths, the ...

A string of deaths among couriers this year has caused a national uproar, drawing attention to unevenly distributed worker protections.

Special trains operated by the government to ease suffering — and to counteract a disastrous lack of lockdown planning — instead played a significant role ...

Before long, an uncomfortable truth could push to the forefront: China’s national target of reaching net-zero emissions might not be compatible with another generation of ...

Xinjiang is a global hub for the crop, producing over 20 percent of the world's cotton.

Jiro Asanuma says the tourism situation on the island of Boracay is far from getting back to normal, and he is barely breaking even each ...

South Korea on Monday banned the launching of propaganda leaflets into North Korea, drawing the criticism of rights activists and defiance from a prominent North ...

Singapore has become the first Asian country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and said it expects to start receiving shots by the end of ...

As Vietnam's ruling Communist Party started a weeklong meeting on Monday, discussion has intensified over the top leadership that will emerge and set the tone ...

China’s Communist Party, under its leader, Xi Jinping, has promoted the idea that the country is on a trajectory to power past Western rivals.

Beijing has dismissed U.S. research saying Chinese dams have retained water to the detriment of downstream nations.

Eight mainly Western nations accused North Korea on Friday of using the pandemic "to crack down further on the human rights of its own people,” ...