Asia Pacific

Even as COVID-19 enters its third year as a pandemic, the world is no closer to knowing the source of the virus that sparked it all. Just six weeks after declaring a global health…

Russian foreign minister is in China – a key ally in Moscow’s war in Ukraine – for talks on Afghanistan.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in China on his first visit to…

The announcement comes before a planned trip to Taiwan by the US ambassador to the UN that has drawn anger from China.The United States will end its decades-old restrictions on official…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is barring entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant that has spread across…

BANGKOK (AP) — After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found itself challenged by an expanding outbreak among…