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View the latest articles and videos on Asia, including breaking news, politics, business headlines and exclusives and feature content.

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  • A Chinese ship is seen in waters near Pingtan island, the closest point to Taiwan, in eastern China's Fujian province on December 29, 2025. China launched live-fire drills around Taiwan on December 29 that it said would simulate a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports, prompting Taipei to condemn Beijing's "military intimidation". (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)
    Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images
    China announces war games around Taiwan after hitting out at major US arms deal
  • Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia waves to supporters after she was arrested, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 3, 2007.
    Pavel Rahman/AP
    Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of Hasina, dies at 80
  • Chinese Leader Xi Jinping speaks at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.
    Ng Han Guan/AP
    Xi Jinping Fast Facts
  • A resident passes a sign promoting voter participation in downtown in Yangon, Myanmar on December 26, 2025.
    Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
    Myanmar’s military junta begins elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages
  • Rescue team members search for passengers missing since Friday night after a boat carrying several people sank off the coast of Indonesia in the Padar Island Strait on December 27, 2025.
    Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency/Reuters
    Indonesian rescuers search for Spanish soccer coach and 3 children after tour boat sinks
  • A map from the United States Geological Survey charts an earthquake that occurred some 32 km (20 miles) off Taiwan's northeastern coastal city of Yilan on Saturday, December 27, 2025.
    United States Geological Survey
    Taiwan rattled by 7.0 magnitude quake, no major damage reported
  • In a photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Seiha (left) stands with Thai Defence Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit (right) at the General Border Committee Meeting in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand, on December 27, 2025.
    Agence Kampuchea Press/AP
    Thailand and Cambodia sign truce to halt fierce border conflict
  • Police officers stand guard at the scene of a stabbing at the Yokohama Rubber Company in Mishima, west of Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025.
    Yusuke Hashizume/Kyodo News via AP
    At least 15 injured in knife and bleach attack at Japan factory
  • Afghans walk past as the Taliban demolish the historical Ariana cinema in Kabul on December 18, 2025.
    Wakil Koshar/AFP/Getty Images
    Afghanistan’s historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center

Videos

  • Wildlife conservation photographer Sebastian Kennerknecht in Malaysia
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    Video The conservation couple chasing every wild cat on Earth 3:27
  • <p>A police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the attackers responsible for the Bondi Beach massacre has been identified by Australian media as Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza. He is believed to have shot dead Sajid Akram, 50, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and CNN affiliates 9News and 7News.</p>
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    Video Police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the Bondi Beach attackers 2:40
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    Video What we know about the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre 2:38
  • Funeral of Bondi Beach attack victim
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    Video Funerals underway as Sydney’s Jewish community confronts rising antisemitism 3:26
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    Video Suspected gunmen in Bondi Beach shooting were father and son, police say 1:26
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    Video Israeli PM says Australia poured “oil on the flames of antisemitism” through inaction 1:22
  • CNN affiliate Seven Network Australia shared an interview with the cousin of the man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman.
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    Video “He’s a hero, 100%,’ says cousin of man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman 0:52
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    Video Rabbi says his nephew was hiding while bullets whizzed by in Australia shooting 2:48
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    Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun
  • China has condemned Trump’s Venezuela blockade. But it may also see some upsides to a new era of gunboat diplomacy
  • China’s TikTok rival flooded with porn and violent video in cyberattack
  • From AI to Venezuela: Why 2026 is a hinge year for global power
  • US bans new foreign drone models in a blow to Chinese giant DJI

India

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  • Ruby Verma Centre. This is India, and that’s nearly a billion people whose details need to be verified before they’re allowed to participate in the world’s largest democracy. Across the country, tens of thousands of civil servants are rushing to input voter details into a database. By hand. And the deadline is Friday for India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The last list dates from 2003 and authorities say it needs cleaning up to reflect mass migration from the countryside to the cities, the accumulation of deceased voters and to remove those on the list illegally.
    Esha Mitra/CNN
    Half a billion voters. One list. Just seven weeks to clean it up
  • A Bollywood film is turning India’s monument to love into a symbol of division
  • A trade deal with Washington and a warm welcome for Putin: Can India have it both ways?
  • Lethal smog is back in the world’s most polluted capital. Residents have had enough
  • India arrests Kashmir resident in connection with deadly Red Fort bomb attack
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  • Israelis look at troops standing guard during a weekly settlers' tour in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 13, 2025.
    Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
    Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
  • Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan
  • Japan to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, 15 years after Fukushima disaster
  • These Japanese wrestlers throw down in latex and glitter
  • United flight to Tokyo returns to Dulles after losing power in an engine and igniting brush around runway

North Korea

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  • Photo of 100-day-old Sohn Yang-young or Kimchi 1 taken after the family settled on Geoje Island after evacuating from Hungnam.
    Charlie Miller/CNN
    Naval nativity: As their mothers fled North Korean forces 75 years ago, five Christmas babies were born at sea
  • North Korea reveals new images of its first ‘nuclear-powered’ submarine
  • US submarines are outnumbered in the Pacific. South Korea has a plan to help
  • North Korea’s Kim Jong Un hails troops returning from Russia
  • North Korean operatives running fake job portal targeting US AI firms

Pakistan

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  • An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border October 15, in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
    Stringer/Reuters/File
    Pakistan and Afghanistan trade fire along the border but no casualties are reported
  • ‘Enemy KIA’: Trump revives playbook from Afghanistan for campaign targeting alleged drug boats
  • Pakistan parliament approves more powers for army chief, curbs top court
  • Two blasts a day apart in India and Pakistan’s capitals fray regional nerves in an already tense year
  • At least 12 killed in Islamabad suicide attack – the most deadly assault in the Pakistani capital since 2008

South Korea

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  • Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall on November 13, in Seoul, South Korea.
    Kim Kong-Ji/Pool//AFP/Getty Images
    This college entrance exam was so hard an official had to resign. Could you ace these questions?
  • South Korea’s aging population finds comfort, care in ‘robo-grandma’ dolls
  • New Zealand woman jailed for life over murder of her two children found in storage locker suitcases
  • US Air Force Reaper drone crashes off South Korea
  • South Korean man gets life sentence over blackmail ring that sexually exploited or abused hundreds

Southeast Asia

  • Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak, jailed for corruption in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, attends the verdict of his house arrest bid at Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on December 22, 2025.
    Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters
    Malaysia court finds jailed former leader Najib Razak guilty of abuse of power in biggest 1MDB trial
  • While most of the world is preparing for Christmas, the Philippines has been at it for months
  • The disaster-prone Philippines invested billions in flood control. Then officials looted the funds
  • The Kremlin’s brazen tactics: Russia’s shadow fleet is doubling as a spy asset, intelligence sources say
  • Bondi attack suspects had no visitors and barely left hotel during month-long Philippines stay, employee says
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