Asia

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan reported 333 domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases Monday, in the island’s largest outbreak since the start of…

LONDON — Britain’s health minister says a fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in India is likely to become the dominant…

Fighters of a local militia opposed to Myanmar’s junta have pulled back from the northwestern town of Mindat after days…

BEIJING (AP) — Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured,…

BEIJING (AP) — China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore further tightened its COVID-19 measures as it seeks to control an increase in untraceable coronavirus infections…

Sherpa guides said a Swiss and an American have died climbing Mount Everest, becoming the first fatalities since Nepal reopened the…

Tech powerhouse Taiwan started phased blackouts islandwide on Thursday after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant hit…

Coercive policies in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have led to a sharp decline in birth rates for Uyghurs…

BEIJING (AP) — Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of…