Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is defending the freezing of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai’s assets as a necessary move under the city’s new national security law to protect the safety of all Chinese ...

The U.S. and British embassies in Myanmar have expressed concern about reports of fierce government attacks on a town in western Chin state, where the ruling junta declared martial law because of arme...

An arrested Japanese reporter has returned home after being released by Myanmar’s ruling junta in what it called a gesture of friendship to Japan...

Muslim leaders from the Xinjiang region have rejected Western allegations that China is suppressing religious freedom...

Greg Kelly, an American lawyer on trial in Japan on charges related to former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s compensation, has asserted his innocence, testifying he acted legally and in Nissan's best ...

Rights organizations and reporters’ groups are urging Thai authorities not to repatriate three journalists who fled to Thailand from military-run Myanmar, saying they would face arrest and possible ph...

Three senior journalists working for a news agency in Myanmar who fled after the military government ordered its operations to stop have been arrested by police in northern Thailand...

Philippine military officials say Malaysian authorities have captured eight suspected Abu Sayyaf militants who may have been planning ransom kidnappings in Malaysia...

South Korean police have summoned an anti-Pyongyang activist for questioning hours after President Moon Jae-in appeared to criticize the activist's campaign of sending propaganda leaflets into North K...

Prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more jail time for participating in an unauthorized vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown...