East Asia

Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Animal quarantine authorities in Taiwan slaughtered nearly 7,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Changhua County Sunday after an outbreak of a subtype of highly pathogenic H5N2 influenza virus was confirmed a day earlier, the first bir...

TAIPEI (CNA) Amid a looming manpower shortage in Taiwan due to a rapidly aging population, nearly 2 million women are not in the labor force for family reasons, according to a recent report from this year's manpower utilization survey. The Directorate...

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate talks have agreed upon universal, transparent rules on how nations can cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming, putting the principles of the 2015 Paris climate accord int...

PARIS (AP) — Yellow vest protesters are occupying dozens of traffic roundabouts in France, even as their movement for economic justice appears to be losing momentum on the fifth straight weekend of demonstrations.Some protesters remained Sunday desp...

Germany plans to toughen rules on non-EU share purchases and acquisitions of its strategic companies, a report said on Sunday, amid growing disquiet about takeovers by Chinese firms.Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet plans to approve the law change on...

Friends, family, acquaintances and Hong Kong government officials past and present paid their last respects to former home affairs undersecretary Florence Hui Hiu-fai at a memorial service on Sunday.Hui was understood to have been battling breast cancer. ...

Senior civil servants and high ranking members of the Communist Party were among the 1,689 people arrested in south China's Guangdong province this year on suspicion of gang-related crimes, according to the official newspaper of the anti-corruption wa...

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has reinstated a pro-India prime minister, whose sudden dismissal threw the country into turmoil for 2 months....

Parents and children have made New Year decorations known as...

Celltrion's breast cancer treatment Herzuma has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start sales in the country, the bio company said Sunday.Herzuma....

Shares in mighty Samsung Electronics fell into the 30,000-won range for the first time since a share split in May. Samsung shares closed at 38,950 won ($34.38) Friday, down 2.63....

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon left for Algeria Sunday on a three-nation African trip that will also take him to Tunisia and Morocco on a mission to strengthen economic cooperation with....

Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Several dozen migrant workers in Taiwan staged a protest Sunday demanding that the Ministry of Labor (MOL) clamp down on brokers who illegally charge workers recruitment fees to get new contracts....

Members of Otto Warmbier's family made a visit to Japan to address the human rights situation in North Korea. Warmbier was a University of Virginia student when detained in North....

Seven among 10 Koreans think the economic outlook for 2019 is bad, according to survey results released Sunday. Commissioned by the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI....

YONGIN, Gyeonggi - The new Hyundai Motor Palisade SUV boasts six USB ports, eight seats, 16 cup holders and a publicity machine that includes everyone from BTS to Beyonce's stylist....

The media frenzy that surrounded cryptocurrency over the past two years, especially in Korea, dwarfed the technology behind it - blockchain. As the cryptocurrency craze subsides....

As the year end nears, stock traders in Korea are focused on "vice shares." Despite recent general weakness in the market, vice shares - stocks related to guilty pleasures such as....

Korea's ruling and four opposition parties have reached a highly anticipated agreement to reform the country's parliamentary election system to better reflect voters' party preferences....

The conveyor belt that took the life of Kim Yong-gyun, a contract worker at the Taean Thermal Power Plant, was confirmed on Sunday to have passed a safety test two months ago....

Twenty-seven people have been awarded the auspicious title of beer sommelier by discount chain Homeplus. The discount chain's first Macmelie Contest - macmelie is a portmanteau....

The Seoul Administrative Court has ordered the government to issue a Syrian asylum seeker a humanitarian stay visa after his request for official refugee status was rejected, court....

CJ Group is aiming to make a big leap in its global business next year, with Chairman Lee Jay-hyun telling top executives that overseas expansion will decide the conglomerate's future....

The Korea Development Bank's (KDB) plans to rescue insolvent companies under its control face growing pressure as the state-owned bank has failed to produce meaningful results even....

A former investigator with the Blue House special inspection bureau accused President Moon Jae-in's top aides of covering up bribery allegations against Korean Ambassador to Russia....

Bowing to heavy criticism for repeatedly ignoring reporters' questions, Foreign Minister Taro Kono a...

A Hong Kong opposition lawmaker has called on the government to adopt a similar approach as the United States to make the city's anticorruption laws extraterritorial so as to "win back" the confidence and respect of the international business ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans are marking the seventh anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son and successor, Kim Jong Un.As snow fell Sunday, tens of thousands of people offe...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say a bomb blast in a northern town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces has killed at least eight people.The explosion on Sunday in Afrin is the latest in a series of attacks in areas held by Turkish troops and th...

LA VILLA, Italy (AP) — Seven-time defending overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher dominated the first run of the Alta Badia giant slalom Sunday.The Austrian led Matts Olsson of Sweden by 0.94 seconds with Marco Odermatt of Switzerland third, 1....

NEW DELHI (The Statesman/ANN) - The detention of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver is an early skirmish in what will probably be a 30- year war. It will not, mercifully, be a military conflict, or at least we should fervently hope so. But the fight between the US...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday criticised Australia's move to recognise West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, saying countries had "no rights" to do so.Australia's move follows US President Donald Trump's decisio...

PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Koreans are marking the anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il...

Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Vietnamese low-cost carrier VietJet Air held a recruitment event in Taiwan Sunday, attracting more than 100 applicants....

Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Domestic gasoline and diesel prices will fall by NT$0.1 (US$0.003) per liter this week following a slight drop in international crude oil prices last week, Taiwan's two major suppliers said Sunday....

Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Finance Minister Su Jain-rong () has said the ongoing trade war between the United States and China will definitely hit Taiwan and that there is no wonder drug for the country that will be able to ease the pain of the impact....

Nabil Ismailiya first tasted Xinjiang food in New York City, at the Kashgar Cafe in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighbourhood."The food was so good, it made me curious. I wanted to know more about Chinese Muslims," recalls the British-born food ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians living in the far eastern region of Primorsky Krai have voted for a new governor after previous election was tainted by fraud.The result of the region's gubernatorial election in September was annulled after a candidate re...

Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn used his influence to have the automaker select a dist...

BANGKOK -- A rap video critical of Thailand's military government has won over millennials and rankled the authorities, with one line declaring,...

BERLIN (AP) — Zurich police say a tour bus on its way to Germany has crashed in Switzerland, killing one person and injuring 44 others.The dpa news agency reported Sunday that the Geneva-to-Duesseldorf bus crashed at 4:15 a.m. south of Zurich, a cit...

PARIS (AP) — A memorial is being held at a square in the eastern French city of Strasbourg to remember the four people who were shot dead and the dozen who were wounded by a gunman several days ago.The gathering Sunday morning was in Kleber Square b...

Hong Kong's top financial official says the government will work to help the tourism sector keep growing as a major part of its efforts to stabilise the economy to offset the effects of the US-China trade war.The remarks by Financial Secretary Paul Ch...

A trade union chief has called on Hong Kong businesses to give staff a 5.5 per cent pay rise this year, and said workers had not benefited from the fruits of their own labour in the past.Carol Ng Man-yee, chairwoman of the Confederation of Trade Unions (C...

Hong Kong's shopping malls and food and beverage sector are embracing a cheerful Christmas but worries over the US-China trade war still linger among retailers.Sun Hung Kai Properties' general manager Fiona Chung Sau-lin is hoping for revenues of ...

A Hong Kong man was arrested on Sunday in connection with an incident a day earlier in which at least HK$5,000 worth of banknotes were tossed from the top of a building in the city's poorest district.The suspect was detained by police in Sham Shui Po ...