Japan has declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby areas as coronavirus cases continue to surge, hitting a daily record of 2,447 in the capital
North Korea has opened its biggest political event in five years amid what some experts see as the most fraught moment of leader Kim Jong Un’s nine-year rule
The owners of a vessel seized by Iran say that armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker the day before and forced the ship to travel to Iran
The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company has been sentenced to death for bribe taking in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years
The New York Stock Exchange says it no longer plans to remove shares of three Chinese state-owned phone carriers as ordered by President Donald Trump
China’s best-known entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, hasn't been seen in public since he angered regulators with an October speech
About a dozen people have protested outside Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, demanding Japanese companies pay compensation for their wartime abuse of Korean laborers
Japan’s health ministry says coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January
China’s leaders say they will make their country into a self-reliant “technology power” as a feud with Washington cuts access to U.S. computer chips and other high-tech components, hampering Beijing’s industrial ambitions
Asian stocks have sunk as investors look ahead to next week’s U.S. presidential election and weigh the chances of stimulus from Washington and Europe
