Asia

Tech powerhouse Taiwan started phased blackouts islandwide on Thursday after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant hit…

Coercive policies in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have led to a sharp decline in birth rates for Uyghurs…

BEIJING (AP) — Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party is renewing its push for its long-cherished goal of revising the country’s pacifist constitution,…

BANGKOK (AP) — After Myanmar’s military seized power by ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, it couldn’t…

China’s population grew at its slowest since the 1950s as births declined, sowing doubt over Beijing’s ability to power its…

BERLIN — A large German health insurance provider says the number of days working-age people called in sick during the…

BEIJING (AP) — China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by…

TOKYO (AP) — Trains packed with commuters returning to work after a weeklong national holiday. Frustrated young people drinking in…

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials say North Korea has told Asia’s soccer governing body it would not participate…