CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Heather Chen, CNN A 236 million peso ($4 million) lottery jackpot shared among a record number of more than 400 winners has sparked questions in the Philippine Senate as skeptical lawmakers demand an inquiry into the results. The government-run Grand Lotto draw raised eyebrows on Saturday when each of the 433 winners claimed a

By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Caitlin Hu, CNN United States, South Korean and Japanese warships performed a missile defense exercise in the Sea of Japan on Thursday, two days after North Korean sent a ballistic missile over Japan, the US-Indo Pacific Command said in a statement. The two US warships, the guided-missile cruiser USS

By Jessie Yeung, Yong Xiong and Nectar Gan, CNN China has banned residents from leaving Xinjiang over a Covid-19 outbreak — just weeks after the far-western region began relaxing restrictions from a stringent extended lockdown, fueling public frustration among those scarred by food shortages and plunging incomes. On Tuesday, the region — home to 22

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen and Jake Kwon, CNN Fans attempting to escape the chaos that erupted at Indonesia’s Kanjuruhan Stadium last Saturday became trapped after security failed to open multiple exit gates, according to the national football association, contributing to the crowd crush in which at least 131 people died. Security forces are facing

By Manveena Suri and Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least four people were killed and 28 people remain missing after an avalanche hit a group of mountaineers in the Indian Himalayas on Tuesday, according to an Indian mountaineering organization. In a statement Tuesday, the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering said a team of 34 trainees and seven

By Yoonjung Seo, Caitlin Hu, Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN The United States and South Korea launched four missiles off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday morning local time, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The test was the allies’ second exercise in under 24 hours, following a provocative

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Australia, which has one of the world’s worst records on extinctions, on Tuesday announced a 10-year plan to prevent any more species from dying out in the country by protecting its most threatened plants and animals. Launching the plan at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia’s Minister for the Environment and Water

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning over Japan on Tuesday for the first time in five years, a highly provocative and reckless act that marks a significant escalation in its weapons testing program. The missile traveled over northern Japan early in the

By Heather Chen, CNN As Indonesian families bury their dead, questions are being asked as to how a soccer match attended only by supporters of the home team descended into chaos resulting in one of the sport’s worst ever tragedies. At least 125 people were killed and more than 300 others injured at the Kanjuruhan

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen, Raja Razek, Jake Kwon and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN At least 125 people are dead after chaos and violence erupted during an Indonesian league soccer match into the early hours of Sunday, according to Indonesia’s National Police Chief in what is one of the world’s deadliest stadium disasters of all

By Kathleen Magramo and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN Residents on the small resort island of Polillo are accustomed to severe weather — their island sits in the northeastern Philippines, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean where storms typically gather strength and turn into typhoons. But even they were stunned by the intensity of Typhoon

By Heather Chen, CNN Even by the bloody standards of Indonesia’s decades-long Papua conflict, one massacre stands out for its brutality — and the seeming impunity of those behind it. On December 8, 2014, a crowd of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators in Paniai district, Papua province, were fired upon — allegedly by Indonesian soldiers —