SEOUL — South Korea’s new president-elect harnessed widespread public discontent and disillusionment to win Wednesday’s election but the same volatile forces that brought him to power may complicate his efforts to enact reforms, analysts said.

TAIPEI — China closed off a part of the South China Sea close to Vietnam this month in its hunt for a crashed aircraft, Taiwan’s intelligence agency said on Thursday, offering an alternate explanation for an exercise Beijing has called military drills.

A 57-YEAR-OLD man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

NEW DELHI/KAMPALA — Standing in front of India’s Taj Mahal, tour guide Raju Usmani fears for his daughter’s future. With coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) decimating his income, he may have to pull her out of school just as she is catching up after nearly two years stuck at home.

SEOUL — Conservative South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol rode to victory in a tight presidential election on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender wars, reshaping the political future of Asia’s fourth-largest economy.

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to make as few policy commitments as possible on Thursday as the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine up-ends its expectations for the economy and leaves policymakers grappling with new realities.

The Ukrainian government is preparing for the potential need to move its data and servers abroad if Russia’s invading forces push deeper into the...

TAIPEI — A senior Taiwanese minister called on Wednesday for the island to be made a “full member” of the United States’ forthcoming Indo-Pacific...

RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine means the food inflation that’s been plaguing global consumers is now tipping into a full-blown crisis, potentially outstripping even the pandemic’s blow and pushing millions more into hunger.

SYDNEY — A “troubling new strategic convergence” between Beijing and Moscow has developed and the risk of “major power conflict” had grown since Russia invaded Ukraine, Australia’s intelligence chief said on Wednesday.

TAIPEI - Taiwan's military strategists have been studying Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the country's resistance, for the island's own battle strategy in the event its giant neighbor China ever makes good on...

WASHINGTON/LVIV, Ukraine - A U.S. ban on imports of Russia's oil ratcheted up punishment for the invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday as McDonald's and Starbucks closed outlets and Moscow promised safe passage for some people to flee. As the number...