President Hu Jintao of China arrived in Hong Kong on Friday ahead the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover from Britain, an event likely to bring into focus the city's complex feelings about Beijing's influence.
The United States is "not in step with the times" in seeking to bolster its military presence in the Pacific region, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said Monday.
As part of a "rebalancing" with Asia, the United States will enhance military-to-military cooperation with China while also boosting the capabilities of its allies in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday.
Scores of people in the Philippine capital held a demonstration Friday to protest China's increasingly bellicose rhetoric about a monthlong naval standoff between Beijing and Manila over a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea.
CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's talk of war with the Philippines over a disputed island.
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.
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.
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.
Seven crew members from a South Korean cargo ship remained missing Tuesday after the boat sank Monday in the South China Sea, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta praised China on more than one occasion Sunday during a series of meetings with fellow defense ministers from southeast Asia, but hinted if relations between the United States and China worsen, it could be a threat to "the security of the world."
New Philippine President Benigno Aquino III kicked off his first trip to China Wednesday, on a mission to soothe strained bilateral relations and secure lucrative trade deals.
Chinese and Southeast Asian officials have agreed on a draft of guidelines to avert tension in the South China Sea.
The top U.S. military officer declared Sunday that China "has arrived as a world power," and that previous U.S. descriptions of China as a "rising power" are now a thing of the past.
Adm. Mike Mullen declared China has arrived as a world power, but its military strength comes with an obligation.
The Philippines' Foreign Secretary Alberto del Rosario on Friday ended his visit to China aimed at seeking diplomatic ways for the two nations to resolve the South China Sea dispute.
The South China Sea - a 1.3 million square mile patch of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations - is dotted with hundreds of largely uninhabited islands and coral atolls that biologists say is home to one of the world's most diverse collection of undersea life.
CNN's Jaime FlorCruz has an exclusive one-on-one interview with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai.
The South China Sea -- a 1.3 million square mile patch of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations -- is dotted with hundreds of largely uninhabited islands and coral atolls that are home to some of the world's most diverse marine life.
Hanoi's embrace of one-time foe the U.S. and growing rancor with Vietnam War-era ally China may appear surprising, but the two nations share a long and complicated history of territorial disputes.
Tempers are flaring again across the South China Sea.
China Tuesday blamed its neighbors for escalating tensions in the South China Sea, one day after the Vietnamese navy held a live-fire drill in disputed waters.
China blames Vietnam for escalating tensions a day after the Vietnamese Navy held a live-fire drill in disputed waters.
The U.S. Navy tried to get permission to board a North Korean merchant vessel that it suspected was carrying illicit weapon technology in the South China Sea, the Pentagon confirmed Monday.
South Koreans send helium balloons dropping leaflets and DVDs promoting freedom and democracy into the North.
China reassured its neighbors Sunday that it will maintain "peace and stability" in the turbulent South China Sea, a day after the U.S. renewed concerns over territorial disputes.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday warned that clashes could occur in the South China Sea if nations in the area do not agree on ways to deal with disputes.
Each year competitors fight it out for the most buns at the Cheung Chau Bun Carnival in Hong Kong.
American troops might soon find themselves serving in Australia as the United States looks for better access to the South China Sea, the source of much friction between China and many other Pacific nations.
At least 27 fishermen were missing after a Vietnam-registered vessel sank in the South China Sea, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday, citing maritime rescue authorities.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to defuse tensions between China and Japan, a strategic U.S. partner, on Saturday, asking the two rival nations to return to negotiations over a group of Pacific islands under dispute.
The death toll from the latest round of heavy rain and flooding in central Vietnam continues to soar, with 46 people killed and 21 missing, state-run media report.
With memories of last year's killer typhoons still fresh, Typhoon Megi roared across the Philippines on Monday, ripping through roofs and cutting off electricity.
Emergency crews in the Philippines were on standby Monday morning as the island nation braced for a "super typhoon" that could trigger flooding and landslides.
The Philippines could begin feeling the effects of a powerful typhoon churning toward the island chain as early as Sunday, forecasters said Saturday.
China isn't a military threat to its neighbors, the nation's defense minister told his counterparts at a security forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States is pleased that nations in the South China Sea region are "making initial steps" to develop a code of conduct over competing maritime territorial claims.
China and the United States will resume high-level defense talks next week, signaling a warming of relations since Beijing broke off military ties early this year.
Three Japanese nationals returned home on Friday afternoon after being freed by China a day earlier, the Kyodo news service said.
Japan on Monday said it would demand compensation for damage done to coast guard ships by a Chinese fishing captain, lobbing a diplomatic ball back at China.
The Obama administration is walking a tightrope over a diplomatic dispute between China and Japan, as it seeks to curb aggressive Chinese behavior on the high seas while not alienating the Asian giant.
Japan on Monday released 14 crew members of a fishing trawler that crashed into two Japanese patrol boats last week, but the captain remains in custody, officials said.
Tropical Storm Conson was downgraded from a typhoon early Saturday, a day after the deadly storm roared into China, along the southern tip of the island of Hainan.
Eighteen people were killed, and 57 others are missing, as Tropical Storm Conson moved over the Philippines, the country's National Disaster Coordinating Council reported Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Conson weakened further Wednesday, as it rolled westward over the Philippines, stranding more than 1,300 people across the archipelago.
A terrorist group might be planning attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Singapore's navy warned Thursday.
The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.
The Pentagon says Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship in the South China Sea. CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.
The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship Sunday in the South China Sea in the latest of several instances of "increasingly aggressive conduct" in the past week.
Volvo Ocean Race favorite Ericsson 4 has arrived in Cochin, India to win the second leg of the round-the-world race.
Eight yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Race round-the-world event will be kept closely briefed on piracy threats and monitored by warships as they approach the troubled waters of the Arabian Sea.
It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.
Hong Kong was bracing Friday for what could be a direct hit from Tropical Storm Nuri.
CNN's Femi Oke has your latest forecast in the international weather update.
Pulsating with neon, powered by commerce and dripping with cash, Hong Kong's crowded streets form a frenetic, freewheeling gateway to Asia, improbably perched on a barren rock by the shores of the typhoon-plagued South China Sea. While once a golden land of opportunity for anyone able to ink their name at the foot of a contract and willing to work without sleep from dawn until a dusk several years later, times are changing fast for the former British colony. The return of sovereignty to Beijing in 1997 has cast a pall of political uncertainty over Hong Kong's six million people, while China's economic rise and the galloping spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome have added to their woes. At times the dripping heat of summer, the semi-permanent shroud of pollution drifting in from mainland Chinese factories and the pitch dark shadows cast by a concrete jungle of tower blocks can prove unbearable. But from the Blade Runner world of Mong Kok -- where Triad gangsters still hold sway -- to the Zen Buddhis
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Under a rare clear Hong Kong sky, 3,000 people sit in high humidity in an open-air theater perched atop of the South China Sea.
Chinese crews rescued 97 Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
At least 150 Vietnamese fishermen were missing and another 28 have been found dead after getting caught in a powerful typhoon in the South China Sea.
Rescuers are seeking survivors after an Egyptian ferry with about 1,400 people on board sank in the Red Sea.
Just after one o'clock on a steamy afternoon, hundreds of Chinese sprinted down Main St, U.S.A., past the Corner Cafe and Sweet Store in their Disney T-shirts and caps, gripping their cameras.
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