Asia

As China begins to relax some of its coronavirus-related restrictions, a senior World Health Organization official said the risk has not gone away.

Donkey polo was a popular game in ancient China among some sections of society.

American Airlines and British Airways have suspended certain international flights.

The Yellow River—the second longest in the country—is sometimes referred to as "China's sorrow" due to its tendency over the centuries to produce devastating floods.

More than half of the country's total coronavirus cases have been reported in Daegu.

Several airlines are offering lower prices for flights to Asia, while others have reduced their services to the region due to falling demand.

The country's horse purchase last October was reportedly its largest buy since 2015, when it acquired 61 horses for $192,204, according to Russian customs data.

The 6.8 magnitude quake hit the Elazig province, which is around 340 miles east of the capital Ankara, at around 8:55 p.m. local time on Friday.

Analysts believe the symbolic journey to Mount Paektu signals the possibility of new missile tests, or even a North Korean expedition into space.

The modern Cold War has moved from Europe to Asia, where Japan is posted on the frontier of the U.S. and China's worsening economic and military feud.

Experts say China and Russia's ties are growing not out of a mutual affinity, but out of a necessity to avoid total domination by the U.S., whose strategy is only accelerating their rapprochement.

India has moved to consolidate control over restive Kashmir, threatening to resurrect border disputes with neighboring China and Pakistan.

Asia represents nearly half of the world's meat consumption. "Asia is by far the number one focus for us. It is core to our mission; core to our business," said Impossible Foods' Nick Halla.

China may seek to further update its aging air fleet, or simply bolster its growing military ties with Russia.

As a trade war looms with the U.S. and nuclear negotiations slow, Xi Jinping is making his debut visit to North Korea, shortly after Kim Jong Un's recent trip to Russia.

"Under most scenarios, short of war, the United States is unlikely to halt the narrowing power differential between itself and China," the Lowy Institute's 2019 Asia Power Index found.

Most glaciers around the world are retreating at unprecedented rates, but some are doing the exact opposite.

Perhaps surprisingly, Shanghai is home to a thriving LGBT scene. In an excerpt from the new travel guide 'Mr. Hudson Explores,' get the lowdown on queer nightlife in China's largest city.

Tensions in the Pacific run high between the U.S. and China over the independence of Taiwan and territorial claims in the South China Sea.

China argued it was "maintaining peace and stability," while the U.S. condemned any move that "destabilizes the region and threatens stability in the Taiwan Strait."

Pakistan's military also showed four alleged Indian air force missiles with their seeker heads intact, warning Islamabad had "more truth to share" to refute New Delhi's claims.

The head of U.S. Forces Korea said North Korea's "activity that we've observed is inconsistent with denuclearization."

"Italy knows exactly what policies serve its own interests and it can make its decisions independently," China said, as Rome contemplates joining Beijing's One Belt, One Road initiative.

Chinese General Wang Weixing argued that if reunited with Beijing, Taiwan would retain significant political, economic and diplomatic independence.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, "President Trump should've now realized that pageantries, photo-ops & flip-flops don't make for serious diplomacy."

Despite months of hard diplomacy, U.S. envoy Stephen Biegun didn't even get a seat at the negotiating table in Hanoi, where hawkish national security adviser John Bolton had the president's ear.

After one of the most serious flare-ups in violence between India and Pakistan in years, the state of their rival armed forces is again making headlines.

North Korean official media warned that the "rough handling of inter-Korean relations and DPRK-U.S. ties may incur grave consequences."

A senior Russian diplomat said President Donald Trump was right: "17, $1 trillion and the lives of 2,300 Americans. What for? For the war to go on and for them to spill blood."

"The development of the shield must closely follow the development of spears," award-winning Chinese defense engineer Qian Qihu said.