A study by the Asian Development Bank shows that countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than other regions and they are not spending enough to limit the damage and adapt to changing weather patterns and natural disasters.

The European Union has finalized its sharply higher customs duties on electric vehicles imported from China.

China says all systems are ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station on the latest mission to make the country a major space power.

Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic stalemate with the regime’s military with rapid gains of huge swaths of territory that inspired others to attack around the country.

Starting her final round in a three-way tie for the lead, Yin Ruoning shot a 7-under 65 to win the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia by one stroke for her second title this month.

Top-seeded Zheng Qinwen of China claimed the Toray Pan Pacific Open title with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over American wild card Sofia Kenin on Sunday.

At least two dozen states have passed or proposed “alien land laws” targeting Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing property or land because of China’s status as a foreign adversary.

Taiwan is making a longshot push to join the International Monetary Fund.

For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine in the U.S. has been approved.

A senior U.S. intelligence official says viral online content spreading baseless attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was created by Russia.

Jannik Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz for the championship in the Six Kings Slam exhibition event after Novak Djokovic topped Rafael Nadal for third place in what might have been the final match in one of tennis' great rivalries.

The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges but there’ll also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency said.

Russia, China and Iran are expanding their partnerships with cyber criminals to conduct cyberespionage and cyberattacks against the U.S. and other nations, according to a new report from Microsoft.

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon.

Auto manufacturers competing to persuade drivers to go electric are rolling out cheaper, more tech-rich models at the Paris Motor Show.

Wall Street rolled to more records as U.S. stocks added to their all-time highs.

A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz have advanced to a semifinal matchup at the Shanghai Masters.

Sei Young Kim, looking for her first victory this season, opened with a 10-under 62 to lead the first round of the Buick LPGA Shanghai tournament.

Fishermen in Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater fishery, the Tonle Sap lake, hope that raising eels will help them adapt to new realities stemming from climate change and environmental damage.

U.S. Open semifinalist Frances Tiafoe has aimed a torrent of expletives at the chair umpire after losing a match at the Shanghai Masters.

Chinese drinkers may pay more for Remy Martin and other European brandies after the government announced provisional tariffs of 30.6% to 39%.

U.S. stocks rebounded after falling oil prices released some of the pressure that built up on the market.

Two days after starting out seventh-ranked Taylor Fritz and 10th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov have finally completed their second-round matches at the Shanghai Masters.

The CIA is offering advice to people in North Korea, Iran and China who want to share information with intelligence officials — without getting caught.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner will play rival Carlos Alcaraz in the final of the China Open after recording a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory over home favorite Bu Yunchaokete.

Thousands of Japanese fans have bid farewell to their beloved panda couple that made their final public appearance at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo before returning to China for medical treatment.

China is redoubling its first-aid for the economy, targeting banks, workers and poor families as the ruling Communist Party prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.

Two Philippine officials say that American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrance despite China’s expressions of alarm.

Donald Trump sat in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania as farmers expressed concerns about losing their way of life, asking questions and offering jokes but mostly just listening.

China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday.

The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production.

The families of four Americans detained in China say their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, and they are urging the U.S. government to take action to bring then home.

The Navy is taking lessons from its combat in the Red Sea and from what Ukraine has done to hold off the Russians in the Black Sea, and using them to help U.S. military leaders for a potential future conflict with China.

Chinese state media say two people have died in eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm.

The strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949 has flooded roads with water and broken tree branches and knocked out power to some homes.

Shanghai’s airports are canceling hundreds of flights as they brace for impact from Typhoon Bebinca.

Pope Francis has offered extensive praise for China at the end of a trip through Asia.

The Biden administration is cracking down on the cheap products sold out of China by companies such as Temu and Shein.

China is raising its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world’s major economies.

A San Jose-based biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that could be cut out of the U.S. market over ties to China.

In just months, residents of Hong Kong’s Cha Kwo Ling village will bid farewell to their homes for decades.

One month after Tara Davis-Woodhall’s Olympic title in the long jump, her husband Hunter Woodhall, a double amputee, won his own Paralympic gold medal.

While the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, thousands are making Mexico their final destination.

The president of East Timor sees Pope Francis’ upcoming visit as a prime opportunity to promote Asia’s youngest country on the world stage, not a time to confront the legacy of abuse by influential members of the clergy in the deeply Catholic nation.

Cambodia’s Defense Ministry says China is giving its navy two warships of the type it has had docked for months at a strategically important base being expanded with Beijing’s funding.

Roger Federer has returned to the U.S. Open as a spectator.

Turmoil over China’s influence in the affairs of South Pacific island nations has flared as it emerged that a Pacific leader at the region’s most important diplomatic summit apparently pledged to erase an affirmation of Taiwan’s involvement in the meeting from its closing statement.

Zheng Qinwen beat Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic final, advancing to the U.S. Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2 victory in the latest finish of a women’s match in tournament history.

With politics set aside, well-wishers have gathered to wish Taipei zoo’s oldest giant panda a happy 20th birthday.

As soon as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán assumed Hungary's presidency of the European Union in July, one thing was clear: he increasingly stands for everything the EU opposes.

Canada’s government says it is imposing a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles that matches U.S. tariffs and follows similar plans announced by the European Commission.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence.

Zhang Peiyi, a Shanghai resident, has been fighting for custody for her two children from a former marriage in a case that has lasted for more than four years.

European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China.

The contest for most gold medals at the Paris Olympics ended in a 40-40 tie between China and the United States.

The French lawyer for Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment.

Cao Yuan has defended his title in the men’s 10-meter platform to give China an unprecedented sweep of the diving gold medals at the Paris Olympics.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

China is trying to fight fire with fire in the face of persistent doping allegations that have dogged its swimmers at the Paris Olympics.

South Korean officials say providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear ambitions.

Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million cars in China for a remote software upgrade to ensure that they warn the driver when the trunk is not locked shut.

China says it has launched a rocket carrying a constellation of a reported 18 satellites as part of efforts to assert its presence in space.

Li Meng scored 18 points and China topped Puerto Rico 80-58 in the Olympic women’s basketball tournament to keep alive its chances of reaching the quarterfinals.

North Korea won the silver in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform event to capture the nation’s first ever Olympic diving medal, as China continued its dominance of the sport with another gold.

Starbucks’ revenue fell 1% in the April-June period as customer traffic weakened in the U.S. and China.

Another Chinese doping allegation has flared up at the Paris Games, angering some swimmers who say officials need to enforce drug-testing rules consistently.

China’s powerful Politburo has endorsed the ruling Communist Party's strategy for growing the economy by encouraging more consumer spending and weeding out unproductive companies to promote “survival of the fittest.”.

With Tom Daley out of the way, China is another step closer to an unprecedented sweep at the Olympic diving pool.

Chinese state media say 15 people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a mountainous tourist area as heavy rains drenched southeastern China.

China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics.

When Donald Trump suggested during the 2016 presidential campaign that he might not honor a U.S. commitment to defend other NATO countries if they were attacked, it triggered alarm throughout the trans-Atlantic alliance.

A strong typhoon has made landfall on China’s southeastern coast after sweeping across the nearby island of Taiwan, where it caused landslides and flooding in low-lying areas and left three dead.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Russian and Chinese bombers flying together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska is a new show of expanding military cooperation and it raises concerns.

Some U.S. states are scrapping investments in Chinese companies amid tensions between countries with the world's largest economies.

A typhoon killed has three people in Taiwan as it approaches the island where air travelers have rushed to board remaining overseas flights.

U.S. customers who bought a new General Motors vehicle last quarter paid an average of just under $49,900, a price that helped push the company’s net income 15% above a year ago.

The Paris Olympics are set to open this week.

A new Pentagon strategy says the U.S. must invest more to upgrade sensors, communications and space-based technologies in the Arctic to keep pace with China and Russia who are increasingly operating there, including in joint military exercises.

Rescuers are searching for dozens missing after heavy rains caused flash flooding and a bridge collapse in different parts of China, killing at least 25 people.

Asian stocks are mixed as investors grappled with weak economic data from China and waited to see the outcome of a top Communist Party policy meeting in Beijing.

China’s Commerce Ministry has announced it will launch an investigation into whether unfair trade practices were adopted by the European Union in its probe of Chinese companies.

Investment in electric vehicle manufacturing is booming in Morocco, a country that neighbors Europe and enjoys a free trade agreement with the United States.

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence.

Mongolia, where parliamentary elections are being held Friday, is a sparsely populated and landlocked Asian nation known for its bitter winter cold and independent spirit.

China’s space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from across the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples the Chang’e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation, specifically with the U.S. Officials said at a televised press conference in Beijing meant to introduce the mission’s achievements that any cooperation with the U.S. would be hinged on removing a U.S. law that bans direct bilateral cooperation with NASA,...

America’s auto industry has grown concerned that Chinese carmakers may be preparing to set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules.

Two former U.S. Olympic gold medalists say they've lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris.

A group of 50 people and firms across across Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and the Marshall Islands that have been acting as a “sprawling shadow banking network” for Iran’s military have been hit with U.S. economic sanctions.

Officials say that China and the European Union are open to holding talks on the EU's recent decision to sharply raise tariffs on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles.

India and Bangladesh on Saturday moved to bolster their defense relationship and signed agreements for expanding cooperation in maritime security, ocean economy, space, and telecommunication sectors, as New Delhi tries to present itself as a regional power and a counterweight to China.

Six people who were missing were found dead by rescuers in Fujian province, state media reported Saturday, adding to the extreme weather deaths after downpours caused landslides in the area, even as authorities extended a warning of more severe weather ahead.

The Treasury Department has fleshed out its proposed rule that would restrict and monitor U.S. investments in China for artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing.

China says it has banned a number of business units of American aviation maker Lockheed Martin Corporation and three of its executives over arms deals with Taiwan, the self-ruling island it claims as its own territory.

At least 47 people have died as downpours in southern China’s Guangdong province caused historic flooding and slides, state media reported Friday, while authorities warned of more extreme weather in other parts of the country.

Japan and New Zealand have agreed in principle on an intelligence sharing pact as their leaders shared concern about the increasingly challenging security environment in the region, including closer ties between Russia and North Korea.

The Biden administration has approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material.

Adidas has launched an investigation into allegations of “compliance violations” in China after receiving an anonymous letter earlier this month accusing local executives of embezzling millions of euros.

Chinese soccer fans have poured their love — and money — into a Singaporean goalkeeper’s food stall after his performance in a game this week indirectly helped China advance to the third qualifying round for the World Cup in 2026.

Now that Europe has announced tariffs on China-made electric cars, the continent is bracing to see if the other shoe drops.