All Asia Pacific
Why South Koreans are protesting over one woman's deathThe stabbing death of a 23-year-old woman has struck a nerve in a country where many women say they are increasingly afraid of threats, abuse and attacks by men.
Why this Taiwan panda needed a 'proof of life' photoPanda politics: The Taipei Zoo moves to debunk rumors that a prized panda recently died.聽
50th anniversary of Mao's Cultural Revolution? Why Beijing yawns.Fifty years ago,聽Mao Zedong started the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,聽to revive communist goals and enforce a radical egalitarianism. Today, China yawns.聽
Australia arrests five men in motor boat plot to join ISISFive men, aged between 21 and 31, were charged with preparing to leave Australia and enter a foreign country "for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities."
How one Australian state is rethinking its relationship with AboriginalsNo Australian government has signed a treaty with its indigenous population. But now in the state of Victoria, the premier sees a treaty as a way to enhance Aboriginals鈥� well-being and self-determination.
N. Korea's triumphal congress does little to win over a frustrated ChinaDuring his five years in power, Kim has shown little regard for his influential neighbor's concerns.
World's highest graffiti: China watches Mount Everest for vandalsThe Mount Everest base camp 17,000 feet is a popular tourist site and has fallen prey to the sort of behavior the Chinese government says is uncivilized and vows to punish.
Taiwan, China find common cause 鈥撀爄n battling organized crimeRecent deportations of Taiwanese members of fraud rings to Beijing has won gradual acceptance from Taiwan 鈥� despite what that might mean to Taiwan's diplomatic status.
China scrambles jets as US Navy tests navigation near disputed islandThe USS William P. Lawrence, a Navy destroyer, traveled within 12 nautical miles of Fiery Cross Reef, where China has built an airstrip in the South China Sea.
N. Korean leader bestows new title on himself. BBC journalists get the bootDuring the first North Korean ruling-party congress in 36 years,聽Kim Jong Un declared himself the new party chairman.
Why some Chinese are warming to Trump, 'rape' comments asideChinese are scrutinizing the presumptive GOP nominee more closely now. While Trump described China's trade policy as 'raping' the US, he also espouses a more isolationist strain that plays well.
N. Korea's leader signals firm grip on power as he opens rare congressKim Jong-un's聽focus is a two-pronged push on nuclear weapons and the economy 鈥� not to mention sending a clear message about his style of leadership.
How two American women survived five days in New Zealand wildernessAn North Carolina exchange student and her mother got lost hiking in the聽expansive Tararua Forest Park. How they survived their ordeal.
China outlines to Japan its conditions to improve relationsOn Saturday, Beijing portrayed the visit by Japan's foreign minister as an act of outreach to an angry China.
First LookUS citizen sentenced to hard labor in North Korea for 'confessed' espionageA Korean-American businessman, Kim Dong Chul, has been sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in North Korea. He is one of six foreigners being held by North Korea.
China battles foreign influence with new NGO lawThe government's tighter controls could discourage a wide array of international groups from continuing their work in China.
After Canadian beheaded, Philippines military pressured to save 20 hostagesThe Filipino military is under pressure to rescue more than 20 foreign hostages after their Muslim extremist captors beheaded a Canadian man.聽
China's new Arctic shipping route, thanks to global warmingChina issued a guide book that encourages ships to take the Northwest Passage via the聽Arctic聽Ocean. Are those international waters or Canadian waters?
One man's fight to save Cambodia's 'killing forests' from the chainsawsOuch Leng, a Cambodian environmentalist, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in recognition of his work that exposes illegal activity by timber barons.聽
First LookPresidential front-runner in Philippines won't apologize for rape commentPhilippine mayor Rodrigo Duterte refuses to apologize for saying that聽he "should have been the first" to聽rape聽an Australian missionary who was assaulted and killed in a prisoner hostage situation in 1989.
