BEIGING – China and Russia are buying increasingly powerful surveillance technologies to intercept communications and try to take control of the Internet, a senior U.S....
PYONGYANG – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a...
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has been granted a $2.4 billion annual budget, just over 12 percent of total government spending in the poverty-stricken country, according...
BEIJING — Domestic politics trumps international politics, in China as everywhere. So even though China lost a friend in President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who...
BEIJING – Incoming Chinese president Xi Jinping has made fighting corruption one of his priorities, so it is perhaps not surprising the National People’s Congress,...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
SHANGHAI – Chinese couples are rushing to divorce before a new tax on home sales hits after the government cracked down on property speculation, the...
BANGKOK – Teens across Southeast Asia are jumping on a greasy, crispy, potentially-heart-attack-inducing trend: “potato parties,” which involve consuming mounds of French fries. The concept...
PYONGYANG – North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing UN sanctions over...
PYONGYANG – The Pirate Bay, the most notorious website in the world, claimed Tuesday it had sailed from Europe and was open in North Korea....
GENEVA – A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA’s Bush-era program of rendition and...