MANILA, Philippines—With its bustling trade, travel hubs and armies of migrant workers, East Asia faces the risk of exposure to Ebola but is improving its defences and...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—President Barack Obama is all in with his economic pitch. The American public is not. Over the next 27 days, either the public or...
BERLIN—Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says he’s confident that “social stability” can be preserved in Hong Kong and is stressing that Beijing won’t change its “one country,...
OSLO, Norway—Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working...
LAS VEGAS—Gay couples began getting married Thursday in Las Vegas—the self-proclaimed marriage capital of the world—ending a dizzying legal fight that had kept them waiting for...
HANOI, Vietnam—A ministry official is proposing that the temperature in restaurants selling beer in Vietnam should not exceed 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), a rule that...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Human rights group Amnesty International urged Thailand on Wednesday to investigate allegations that police tortured a pair of suspects who reportedly confessed to killing two...
HANOI, Vietnam—A Vietnamese oil tanker missing for a week has been released by pirates who stormed the ship and siphoned off some of its cargo of...
BEIJING—The dengue virus has killed six people and infected more than 23,000 in southern China’s worst outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease in about two decades, officials...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Labor Department reported Tuesday that about 168 million children, aged 5 to 7, worked last year as labourers around the world, about half of...