ASIA - PACIFIC

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Hualien County on the island’s eastern coast at approximately 8 a.m. local time on Wednesday. It...

Rising mercury in the Philippines has forced over 4,000 schools to suspend in-person classes or shorten school hours, soon after...

Sri Lankan fishermen have blamed India for raking up a controversy over the uninhabited Katchatheevu island and ignoring the row over...

Migrant workers and human rights groups in South Korea have urged the government to arrest and investigate a far-right political...

Senior Sri Lankan Church officials have disapproved a visit by a top cop to the 2019 Easter Sunday attack victims...

It’s election season in India and a little-known island with a Catholic shrine lying between India and Sri Lanka has...

At least 210 children were killed or maimed because of the use of landmines and explosives in conflict-torn Myanmar last...

Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has urged a united political front among a patchwork of ethnic armies after a...

For plummeting worldwide fertility rates to change course, people must find courage to "do the hard thing" of raising large...

A Catholic diocese in Taiwan has mourned the dead and promised to support affected communities after the strongest earthquake in decades...