South Korea is set to carry out the chemical castration of a serial rapist later this week, implementing recent legislation for the first time.
China warns North Korea. What will the North's next nuclear test reveal? CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on renewed fears of a Chinese economic slowdown.
Wen Jiabao, China's premier, paved the way for a fresh round of pro-growth policies at the weekend, triggering a surge in Asian and commodity markets anticipating a burst of stimulus measures in the world's second-biggest economy.
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea warned Pyongyang Monday against a possible third nuclear test.
China's Dalian Wanda Group and AMC Entertainment announced Monday a $2.6 billion deal to take over the U.S. theater group, forming the world's largest cinema chain, according to a new release on the deal.
A miner in northeast China was rescued Saturday after being buried underground for 17 days, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 20 people were killed Saturday in an explosion inside an expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan province, state media said.
North Korea has resumed work on the construction of a reactor that could help it push forward its nuclear weapons program, according to an academic group's analysis of a recent satellite image.
Japan's economy rebounded in the first quarter, but analysts warned that the pace of expansion will soon ease as temporary boosts to consumption and investment fade.
Cui Jian burst onto the music scene in China 26 years ago with his signature number, "Nothing To My Name."
Tech giants Sony and Olympus post losses for fiscal year. Kyung Lah reports.
CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's talk of war with the Philippines over a disputed island.
Foreign auditing firms will have to appoint a Chinese national as their chief partner in China as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country's accounting industry.
A Chinese military newspaper has warned that the country's armed forces will not allow anyone to challenge China's sovereignty of a tiny island outcrop in the South China Sea.
China's trade surplus jumped in April as imports and exports both further decelerated, renewing fears of a harder than expected landing for the world's second-biggest economy.
Reeling from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has effectively been nationalized after Tokyo approved a request for a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) injection of capital.
Japan is the first major economy to operate in the modern era without nuclear energy. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
CNN's Jonathan Mann reports on how everything surrounding Chen Guangcheng is being censored in China.
As Japan began its workweek Monday morning, the trains ran exactly on time, the elevators in thousands of Tokyo high-rises efficiently moved between floors, and the lights turned on across cities with nary a glitch.
A bumpy ride is ahead as the French vote suggests an austerity backlash, CNN's Pauline Chiou reports.
An activist escapes, while dissidents are in hiding. CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's most tumultuous period in decades.
They are two men, separated by a gulf of power and privilege. One was born of the Chinese Communist Party, the son of a revolutionary hero and seemingly destined to shape China's destiny; the other has lived in the shadow of the state, poor, persecuted and blind.
"Very busy lately, huh?" Lao Liu greets me one morning on my way to work. "What's going on with this Chen Guangcheng guy?"
The United States took "extraordinary" measures to bring Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to its embassy and plans to help him "every step of the way," the U.S. ambassador to China told CNN on Thursday.
When Ji Yeqing awakened, she was already in the recovery room.
John King speaks with Nicholas Burns about the Chinese dissident who may be in the U.S. embassy and U.S.-China relations.
Abigail Washburn hoped to one day influence China - U.S. relations by using the law. Now, she's discovered another way.
Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his apparent flight to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, while not yet officially confirmed, would greatly complicate the Obama administration's efforts to keep relations on an even keel in a year already fraught with bilateral irritants.
Months after agreeing to a $160 million settlement, ConocoPhillips and China announced that the energy giant will pay an additional $191 million in the wake of oil spills last year in north China's Bohai Bay.
The United States and Japan have agreed that about half the U.S. Marines on the Japanese island of Okinawa will soon leave, a transition that could ease a long-simmering resentment of the Americans' presence that has at times boiled over.
A run-down hotel on the outskirts of Chongqing is the unlikely setting for a murder mystery. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
The Bank of Japan announced further easing measures on Friday, as economic data suggested slowing growth and persistent deflationary forces in the world's third-largest economy.
The real estate market was on fire.
The dramatic fall from grace of a man so close to the top of China's hierarchy is "very positive" for the country's political development, one prominent China expert has argued.
Kristie Lu Stout cuts through the rumors surrounding disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai with CNN's Jaime FlorCruz
If the U.S. election race conjures up images of mud flying through the air for many Japanese, campaigning politicians in the Land of the Rising Sun evoke visions of a more white-gloved affair.
When yet more news breaks about the Bo Xilai scandal there is a momentary stir in the office of a state-run Chinese newspaper in Beijing.
The world's luxury car makers are flocking to the Beijing Auto Show. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Villagers in Wukan, China, hold what many call the country's first "free and democratic" elections. Stan Grant reports.
A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.
I glimpse the sprawling hotel from a distance, nestled into the lush hills on the outskirts of Chongqing. The air is fresher here, the temperature several degrees cooler than the sprawling metropolis of more than 30 million people below.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has said it does not want a 'dirty' capital market.
A tour bus careened across a highway barrier and slammed into an oncoming box truck in eastern China on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring 21 others, according to state media.
China has promised a thorough investigation into a scandal that has linked a disgraced former Communist Party chief's wife to the mysterious death of a British businessman.
Two female employees were found mauled to death Friday after six bears escaped their enclosure at a park in northern Japan, a local fire official told CNN.
After weeks of military analysts examining the latest North Korean rocket before and after its failed launch, the focus now has turned to a truck.
CNN's Stan Grant attends celebrations in Pyongyang, where the new leader gives his first public speech.
CNN's Stan Grant reports from North Korea on the reaction from government leaders on the failed rocket launch.
North Korea says its scientists have concluded their investigation into the failure of the country's long-range rocket launch last week, but it declined to divulge why the flight ended in a trail of debris strewn across the sea.
China downplayed India's successful missile launch this week, saying that the two sides are not rivals but cooperating partners.
There is a saying that Mongolians are born on horses.
While tensions remain high between the United States and North Korea, the relationship is more cordial between their scientists.
Asian security may figure greatly in this year's U.S. presidential election because of urgent questions about North Korea and enduring concerns over how best to manage a rising China and preserve American influence.
China has stepped up its engagement with Africa in recent years, scouring the resource-rich continent in its bid to access natural resources and forge new trade routes. But the Asian powerhouse is also emerging as an attractive business destination for Africans.
Growing numbers of Africans seeking economic opportunities in the world's second largest economy, China.
The Tokyo metropolitan government expects to strike a deal to buy a set of islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China, the governor of Tokyo has said.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un spoke before hundreds of troops and others in Pyongyang on Sunday as part of a massive, orchestrated celebration marking 100 years since the birth of the nation's founder, his grandfather.
China expanded the daily trading range that its currency can fluctuate against the US dollar on Saturday in an important step towards allowing the Rmb to eventually float freely.
CNN's Stan Grant views the bleak North Korean landscape from a train, after so many years reporting from the outside.
The United Nations has condemned North Korea's attempt to launch a long-range missile.
Federal support for renewable power helped the United States reclaim from China the title of the world's biggest investor in clean energy, researchers for the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reported Wednesday.
China is slowing, inflation is sleeping, bank stocks are slipping and Google is splitting. Got all that?
It was meant to be a show-stopping display of military might, a rocket poised to enter orbit to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the man who founded North Korea.
Paula Hancocks reports on what the possible fallout could be for South Korea after North Korea's failed rocket launch.
Former NASA engineer Homer Hickam explains how North Korea's rocket works and likely reasons why it failed.
Ben Simpfendorfer of Silk Road Associates discusses new trade data that shows some economic growth in China.
China's economy grew 8.1% in the first quarter from a year earlier, its slowest pace in nearly three years.
Contact lenses, diamonds and boiled eggs are things that are better hard than soft. But economic landings in China? That's a different story.
For hours, China's micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).
The Philippines said Thursday that it had pulled its largest naval vessel away from a remote lagoon in the South China Sea where it was engaged in an uneasy standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships.
CNN's Barbara Starr reports on what North Korea's rocket launch will show the U.S. about its capabilities.
As the drama surrounding one of the Chinese Communist Party's most powerful leaders, Bo Xilai, unfolds with all the twists of a soap opera, attention has now focused on his wife, Gu Kailai, the woman likened to the "Jackie Kennedy of China" and now at the center of a murder investigation.
It really doesn't look like much, this mission control.
As the window opened for North Korea's latest rocket launch opened Thursday morning, the nation's neighbors were watching developments at the remote base nervously.
CNN's Stan Grant reports North Korean officials insist the country's planned rocket launch is for a satellite.
His work was once the most expensive from a modern Chinese artist. Zeng Fanzhi gives CNN a glimpse of his studio and method.
In terms of underground Chinese art, Ai Weiwei may be grabbing the headlines but he is just one artist in an expanding galaxy of edgy and sometimes provocative work that has been coming out of China's contemporary art scene for more than a decade.
The Philippines said Wednesday that its largest naval vessel is engaged in a standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships in a remote lagoon in the South China Sea.
CNN's Paula Hancocks looks at why many South Koreans are turning away from traditional political parties.
North Korea said the assembly of a rocket it plans to launch in the coming days should be completed Tuesday, setting the stage for a move that has been widely criticized by other nations.
The U.S., Japanese and Chinese economies have regained their momentum and are leading the world in growth, according to the latest report Tuesday from a global monitoring group.
Beijing is a city where history and culture are almost tangible. They sprout, grow and bloom in unexpected places, around glittering new skyscrapers, in subway tunnels and in parks. And yet, despite their prevalence, history and culture in Beijing always seem to be teetering on the verge of extinction.
The United States and China have the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Whether they can develop a constructive, cooperative relationship or whether they become each others' greatest nightmare has enormous consequences for each country and for the capacity of the international system to manage regional and global issues.
South Korea's national police chief resigned Monday amid criticism over authorities' handling of an emergency call from a woman who was later found murdered.
Japan readies its missile defense as North Korea prepares to launch a rocket. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
All eyes this week are on North Korea, which looks set to move forward with a provocative long-range missile launch.
In the next week North Korea will launch a satellite to coincide with the 100th birthday of Kim Il Sung, the late "Great Leader," and the man perhaps most responsible for the reclusive state's status as the world's most irresponsible country.
CNN's Eunice Yoon explores the rich-poor divide in China and its challenges for the country.
North Korea is planning a new nuclear test in the area where it staged previous atomic blasts, according to a report from South Korean intelligence officials obtained by CNN.
As North Korea presses forward with a controversial rocket launch, journalists were granted a rare glimpse Sunday of the reclusive country's preparations.
China has acknowledged that a number of its websites have fallen victim to attack by hackers following a mass campaign by the Anonymous network.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on the arrests and indictments of six elite hackers from 'Anonymous' and 'Lulzsec'.
If body language is a good gauge of political standing, Li Keqiang is looking very much like China's premier-in-waiting.
George Clooney and John Prendergast discuss their efforts to raise awareness about violence in Sudan.
If all had gone to plan, Sudan and South Sudan would have been neighbors co-existing in a strained but civil peace, aware of a bitter history but resolved to moving on.
A year ago, Bo Xilai was one of the most powerful and talked-about politicians in China. He was a member of China's ruling body, the Politburo, and he seemed to have a shot at gaining a seat on the key decision-making unit within it, the Standing Committee.
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