Recent ballistic missile tests by India, Pakistan and North Korea -- which has ominously threatened to "reduce to ashes" the South Korean military "in minutes" -- are once again focusing the world's attention on the dangers of nuclear war.
Cui Jian burst onto the music scene in China 26 years ago with his signature number, "Nothing To My Name."
Tech giants Sony and Olympus post losses for fiscal year. Kyung Lah reports.
CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's talk of war with the Philippines over a disputed island.
Foreign auditing firms will have to appoint a Chinese national as their chief partner in China as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country's accounting industry.
A Chinese military newspaper has warned that the country's armed forces will not allow anyone to challenge China's sovereignty of a tiny island outcrop in the South China Sea.
China's trade surplus jumped in April as imports and exports both further decelerated, renewing fears of a harder than expected landing for the world's second-biggest economy.
Reeling from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has effectively been nationalized after Tokyo approved a request for a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) injection of capital.
Japan is the first major economy to operate in the modern era without nuclear energy. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
The wreckage of a Russian passenger airliner that went missing during a demonstration flight over Indonesia has been found in a mountainous area, a local official said Thursday.
With his fate at home hanging in the balance, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani repudiated U.S. claims that Pakistan was falling short on fighting the war on terrorism and said instead that his nation was operating on a trust deficit with Washington.
CNN's Jonathan Mann reports on how everything surrounding Chen Guangcheng is being censored in China.
As Japan began its workweek Monday morning, the trains ran exactly on time, the elevators in thousands of Tokyo high-rises efficiently moved between floors, and the lights turned on across cities with nary a glitch.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday applauded India's efforts to reduce its imports of Iranian oil but urged it to cut them further to keep pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
An activist escapes, while dissidents are in hiding. CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's most tumultuous period in decades.
They are two men, separated by a gulf of power and privilege. One was born of the Chinese Communist Party, the son of a revolutionary hero and seemingly destined to shape China's destiny; the other has lived in the shadow of the state, poor, persecuted and blind.
As a veteran of combat in Vietnam, I am often asked about current wars. Recently I have been asked about soldiers posing with corpses or urinating on corpses in Afghanistan. The "patriotic" media wants us to understand what it is like to be a soldier in war, not to condone the conduct but to ask "who are we to judge?" They want to know about rules of war: "Are there rules about taking pictures with dead bodies?"
"Very busy lately, huh?" Lao Liu greets me one morning on my way to work. "What's going on with this Chen Guangcheng guy?"
The United States took "extraordinary" measures to bring Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to its embassy and plans to help him "every step of the way," the U.S. ambassador to China told CNN on Thursday.
An explosion killed 20 and injured dozens in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Friday, a government official told CNN.
Authorities continued their search for bodies Wednesday, two days after one of India's worst ferry accidents claimed at least 100 lives.
In Manila's slums, the contents of fast food restaurants' trash bags are turned into whole new meals, called 'pagpag'.
Felipa Fabon waits outside a local fried chicken restaurant in Manila. Crouching near to feral cats and rubbish bins, she isn't there to meet friends for dinner but to search through the diner's trash bags.
When Ji Yeqing awakened, she was already in the recovery room.
John King speaks with Nicholas Burns about the Chinese dissident who may be in the U.S. embassy and U.S.-China relations.
At least 100 people are feared dead after a ferry broke in two and sank in a remote part of northeastern India, according to officials.
Abigail Washburn hoped to one day influence China - U.S. relations by using the law. Now, she's discovered another way.
A pro-democracy activist has been ordered detained in Vietnam for at least four months, having been charged with organizing terrorist activities, state media reported.
Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his apparent flight to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, while not yet officially confirmed, would greatly complicate the Obama administration's efforts to keep relations on an even keel in a year already fraught with bilateral irritants.
Months after agreeing to a $160 million settlement, ConocoPhillips and China announced that the energy giant will pay an additional $191 million in the wake of oil spills last year in north China's Bohai Bay.
A run-down hotel on the outskirts of Chongqing is the unlikely setting for a murder mystery. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is found guilty in contempt case. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Far from clarifying matters, the Pakistani Supreme Court's guilty verdict against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has added several layers of uncertainty about the fate of Pakistan's civilian government and its longest serving prime minister.
The Bank of Japan announced further easing measures on Friday, as economic data suggested slowing growth and persistent deflationary forces in the world's third-largest economy.
The real estate market was on fire.
Kristie Lu Stout explains the long-running legal fight between Apple and Samsung
The dramatic fall from grace of a man so close to the top of China's hierarchy is "very positive" for the country's political development, one prominent China expert has argued.
Kristie Lu Stout cuts through the rumors surrounding disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai with CNN's Jaime FlorCruz
A blast at a railway station in Lahore, Pakistan, killed two people Tuesday and wounded 27, officials said.
When yet more news breaks about the Bo Xilai scandal there is a momentary stir in the office of a state-run Chinese newspaper in Beijing.
The world's luxury car makers are flocking to the Beijing Auto Show. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Villagers in Wukan, China, hold what many call the country's first "free and democratic" elections. Stan Grant reports.
A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.
U.S. troops have fired into Pakistani territory at least four times in the last 10 months in cross-border skirmishes that they say are in response to shelling from inside Pakistan, CNN has learned.
I glimpse the sprawling hotel from a distance, nestled into the lush hills on the outskirts of Chongqing. The air is fresher here, the temperature several degrees cooler than the sprawling metropolis of more than 30 million people below.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has said it does not want a 'dirty' capital market.
A tour bus careened across a highway barrier and slammed into an oncoming box truck in eastern China on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring 21 others, according to state media.
A man was arrested Saturday in India after he was caught traveling on a train with about 30 detonators and other explosives, CNN affiliate IBN reported.
First images from GEO TV of the plane crash site and debris near Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
A commercial airplane carrying 127 people crashed Friday in Islamabad just before it was to land at a nearby airport, according to Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority, which cited poor weather as a possible factor.
China has promised a thorough investigation into a scandal that has linked a disgraced former Communist Party chief's wife to the mysterious death of a British businessman.
Two female employees were found mauled to death Friday after six bears escaped their enclosure at a park in northern Japan, a local fire official told CNN.
Prisoners escape from a Pakistani facility in the city of Bannu after members of the Taliban raid the facility.
China downplayed India's successful missile launch this week, saying that the two sides are not rivals but cooperating partners.
CNN's Jim Clancy explains why India's missile launch did not receive the international criticism North Korea received.
India said Thursday that it had successfully carried out the maiden test flight of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can apparently travel more than 5,000 kilometers.
Pakistan says it is liaising with the governments of Yemen and Saudi Arabia before it decides when to deport several of Osama bin Laden's family members of back to their homelands.
There is a saying that Mongolians are born on horses.
Simon Denyer and Ali Velshi discuss the long-term expansion of the Indian economy and why few foreign investors exist.
When 33-year-old Ashoo Mongia visits the supermarket it's rarely for stocking up his fridge for the week. As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
While tensions remain high between the United States and North Korea, the relationship is more cordial between their scientists.
Asian security may figure greatly in this year's U.S. presidential election because of urgent questions about North Korea and enduring concerns over how best to manage a rising China and preserve American influence.
China has stepped up its engagement with Africa in recent years, scouring the resource-rich continent in its bid to access natural resources and forge new trade routes. But the Asian powerhouse is also emerging as an attractive business destination for Africans.
Growing numbers of Africans seeking economic opportunities in the world's second largest economy, China.
Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters could be deported from Pakistan on Wednesday after their period of house detention expired overnight.
India plans the maiden test flight this week of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can travel more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), military officials said.
India's central bank cut key lending rates for the first time in three years on Tuesday in an aggressive effort to stimulate growth and boost investment at a time when the gloss is rapidly coming off Asia's third largest economy.
China expanded the daily trading range that its currency can fluctuate against the US dollar on Saturday in an important step towards allowing the Rmb to eventually float freely.
Federal support for renewable power helped the United States reclaim from China the title of the world's biggest investor in clean energy, researchers for the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reported Wednesday.
China is slowing, inflation is sleeping, bank stocks are slipping and Google is splitting. Got all that?
Pakistan's parliament set out new guidelines for its relations with the United States, as it agreed to re-engage with Washington after months of tension over deadly airstrikes on a Pakistani border post by NATO forces and other issues.
Ben Simpfendorfer of Silk Road Associates discusses new trade data that shows some economic growth in China.
China's economy grew 8.1% in the first quarter from a year earlier, its slowest pace in nearly three years.
Contact lenses, diamonds and boiled eggs are things that are better hard than soft. But economic landings in China? That's a different story.
For hours, China's micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).
The Philippines said Thursday that it had pulled its largest naval vessel away from a remote lagoon in the South China Sea where it was engaged in an uneasy standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships.
Five people died after two major earthquakes struck near Indonesia, authorities said Thursday.
Phillip Charlesworth of IFRC Indonesia Country Office discusses search and rescue efforts following the massive quake.
CNN's Barbara Starr reports on what North Korea's rocket launch will show the U.S. about its capabilities.
As the drama surrounding one of the Chinese Communist Party's most powerful leaders, Bo Xilai, unfolds with all the twists of a soap opera, attention has now focused on his wife, Gu Kailai, the woman likened to the "Jackie Kennedy of China" and now at the center of a murder investigation.
It really doesn't look like much, this mission control.
His work was once the most expensive from a modern Chinese artist. Zeng Fanzhi gives CNN a glimpse of his studio and method.
In terms of underground Chinese art, Ai Weiwei may be grabbing the headlines but he is just one artist in an expanding galaxy of edgy and sometimes provocative work that has been coming out of China's contemporary art scene for more than a decade.
Water recedes slightly from a beach in Phuket, Thailand, after a earthquake off Indonesia triggered a tsunami alert.
A 3-month-old baby, whose father has been arrested on allegations he beat her for being born a girl, died Wednesday at a hospital in South India, a doctor said.
The Philippines said Wednesday that its largest naval vessel is engaged in a standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships in a remote lagoon in the South China Sea.
CNN's Paula Hancocks looks at why many South Koreans are turning away from traditional political parties.
CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports on the race to save those buried after an dramatic avalanche in Pakistan.
A U.S. team was at work Monday at a Himalayan military outpost in Pakistan, joining the search for as many as 139 people buried in a massive avalanche.
The U.S., Japanese and Chinese economies have regained their momentum and are leading the world in growth, according to the latest report Tuesday from a global monitoring group.
Beijing is a city where history and culture are almost tangible. They sprout, grow and bloom in unexpected places, around glittering new skyscrapers, in subway tunnels and in parks. And yet, despite their prevalence, history and culture in Beijing always seem to be teetering on the verge of extinction.
The United States and China have the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Whether they can develop a constructive, cooperative relationship or whether they become each others' greatest nightmare has enormous consequences for each country and for the capacity of the international system to manage regional and global issues.
South Korea's national police chief resigned Monday amid criticism over authorities' handling of an emergency call from a woman who was later found murdered.
CNN's Eunice Yoon explores the rich-poor divide in China and its challenges for the country.
Rescue crews continued their frantic search Sunday at a Himalayan military outpost near the Indian border where a massive avalanche buried up to 139 people, most of them Pakistani soldiers.
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan is scheduled to visit India on Sunday, the first by a Pakistani head of state in seven years, amid thawing relations between the two nuclear-armed archrivals.
China has acknowledged that a number of its websites have fallen victim to attack by hackers following a mass campaign by the Anonymous network.
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