ASIA

President Biden wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea where he met with Hyundai CEO Euisun Chung to talk about investing $10 billion in electric vehicles and related technologies in the United States

President Biden attended a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during his first trip to Asia since taking office.

A “lost” continent that once connected Asia to southern Europe may have formed an ancient passageway that helped animals migrate west, leading to a sudden and widespread extinction event around 34 million years ago, according to new research.

A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year.

The White House on Monday announced a series of new agreements with Singapore aimed at combating cyber threats, tackling climate change, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and alleviating supply chain issues

The Dalai Lama, the 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, has been administered the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala

The United States says last weekend’s military roundup of civilian leaders in Myanmar was a coup.

China, Japan and 13 other Asian-Pacific nations have signed the world’s largest trading bloc in a deal many hope will hasten the region’s recovery from the shocks of the pandemic

Heavy rain in southern Japan has triggered flooding and mudslides, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, about 10 missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued

The global battle to contain the coronavirus reached a new level of urgency Monday, as governments locked down their borders, a new wave of closures and restrictions kept more than 500 million students at home, and pleas went out to funnel masks and ventilators to places struggling with soaring caseloads.

As a virus pandemic spreads globally, China and other parts of Asia are scrambling to prevent it from coming back to where it broke out

The coronavirus outbreak began to look more like a worldwide economic crisis Friday as anxiety about the infection emptied shops and amusement parks, canceled events, cut trade and travel and dragged already slumping financial markets even lower.

Major U.S. stock indexes gave up early gains and closed mostly lower Wednesday, extending the market’s heavy losses for the week.

Shares are mixed in Asia after Wall Street suffered its worst session in two years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging more than 1,000 points on worries over the impact of the viral outbreak from China.

Panic and pollution are driving a surging market for protective face masks in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal

Kobe Bryant was a hugely popular figure in Asia, no more so than in China where basketball rivals soccer as the most popular sport.

As new cases of the coronavirus are reported around the world, a doctor explains where the 2019 Novel Coronavirus comes from and what you can do to protect yourself from the outbreak.

People in parts of Southern Asia caught a glimpse of a “ring of fire” solar eclipse Thursday.

People along a swath of southern Asia have gazed at the sky in marvel at a “ring of fire” solar eclipse. The so-called annular eclipse, in which a thin outer ring of the sun is still visible, could be seen along a path stretching from India and Pakistan to Thailand and Indonesia.

A South Korean court on Friday found two K-pop stars guilty of illicit sexual relations with a woman who was unable to resist and sentenced them to up to six years in prison. The Seoul Central District Court said singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young received a six-year prison term and former boy band member Choi Jong-hoon a five-year term. The court said...