The Latest Breaking News from Asia

The 19-year-old Youth Olympics champion’s plans have been disrupted by injury and COVID. But his resolve remains unshakeable as he prepares for the challenge of adding significantly heavier plates to his barbell for this year’s Commonwealth and Asian Games

In Costa Rica, election officials are encouraging those infected with the coronavirus to skip voting in upcoming national elections

Asian shares have declined after a late-afternoon sell-off wiped out gains for stocks on Wall Street

Surging gasoline prices are posing a tricky new problem for governments as they seek to nurse virus-hit economies back to health.

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss deterrence in the Asia-Pacific region and a "united" Western alliance against Russian threats to Ukraine in a virtual meeting Friday, officials said. Biden has made restoring the importance of the US-Japanese relationship a priority since taking office exactly…

MIAMI — Miami-based Crystal Cruises, a pioneer in luxury cruising, said it’s suspending ocean voyages through the end of April, and its future after that was unclear Thursday as its Asian parent company warned investors it expects to run out of money by the end of the month.

Could chartering flights to Asia to collect rapid antigen tests be a solution to the shortage? Tom Tate thinks so.

Jan. 14-20, 2022

Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin says ‘we have weathered the Omicron storm’; France reports 400,851 daily cases and 233 Covid-linked hospital deaths