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Asia

5 Feb
Customers purchased exclusive Beijing Winter Olympics-themed postage stamps and envelopes on Saturday after the Games got under way in full. The limited-edition memorabilia were on sale at a China Post counter...
5 Feb
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce apologized publicly on Saturday to Prime Minister Scott Morrison for calling him a "liar" and a "hypocrite" in a text message last year. In a...
5 Feb
China has urged the United States to engage in dialogue with North Korea over the country's nuclear program. Ambassador Zhang Jun, the Chinese envoy to the United Nations told reporters that the US...
5 Feb
Thailand's largest Chinese community held its annual Lunar New Year parade on Thursday, a celebration awash with dragons, acrobats and red and gold apparel. Marching bands and pop-up shrines contributed to the...
5 Feb
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has congratulated China for holding the Winter Olympics, Pyongyang's state media reported Friday. An unnamed newsreader on state television read out the text of a letter from...
4 Feb
Final preparations were underway Friday for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The ceremony is set to start at 8pm local time. It will take place at Beijing's National Stadium. Many...
4 Feb
South Korea's daily coronavirus cases hit another all-time high, with 27,443 cases reported — the third consecutive day of new cases topping 20,000."We cannot predict when the peak will be,"...
4 Feb
The resort island of Bali is reopening to foreign travelers from all countries, with direct international flights resuming for the first time in two years. But mandatory quarantine remains in place for all...
4 Feb
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Thursday, ahead of the summit between the Russian and Chinese presidents. Lavrov and Wang discussed global and regional...
3 Feb
People in Beijing were looking forward to the Winter Olympics on Thursday, a day before the opening ceremony, in spite of disappointment at not being able to attend the event in person. Organizers announced last...

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