String of defections raises questions about ruling class' loyalty to the Kim dynasty.

Eleven of 22 workers trapped in China gold mine rescued after two weeks.

Demonstrations were held in scores of cities in temperatures as low as -50C.

Residents at the epicentre of the outbreak must stay home until they've tested negative.

Beijing's "accelerated" aircraft-carrier building programme is bearing fruit.

Anchan Preelert's sentence was 87 years but the court halved it after she pleaded guilty.

North Korea's leader delivers a message to the US with huge military parade.

A ghostly landscape greets displaced villagers one year after Taal volcano erupted.

In December last year, market vendor Jiang Dafa started noticing people were falling ill.

South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus, but not now.

They have the world's largest navy. Now an expert says China is primed and ready for war.

Work grinds to a halt on Kim Jong-Un's vanity project - despite Donald Trump's backing.

In 2013, organisers said the Games would cost US$7.5b. It will cost a lot more.

The first locally-transmitted case of Covid-19 since April has been reported in Taiwan.

The new law has seen innocent people tortured and imprisoned, critics say.

Man sentenced to death for killing and dismembering nine people in his Tokyo apartment.

With schools shut and parents losing jobs, families are putting their children to work.

One miner was found alive after the disaster and rescuers are looking for five others.

Beijing's goal is to "dominate" the planet in every sense, says DNI chief John Ratcliffe.

Authorities have seized dismembered animal corpses during a raid at a private Thai zoo.

OPINION: China's relationship with the West is spiralling. NZ should step up to help.

Mount Ili Lewotolok sent a plume of ash 4000m into the sky as it erupted on Monday.

A professor of international law is calling on New Zealand to back Australia.

Kaavan the elephant is heading to his new home at a sanctuary in Cambodia.

He was doing odd jobs while travelling when he came up with an idea.

Chinese-built Pangda village gleams with newness. But there's a hitch: it's not in China.