CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau After days of mounting public pressure, Chinese police have finally issued an update on the investigation into a brutal restaurant attack in Tangshan — but the statement has done little to quell public outrage, or address concerns for the victims. The assault, which took place in the early

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea successfully launched satellites into orbit with its homegrown Nuri rocket on Tuesday, a significant step for the country’s burgeoning space program after a failed attempt last year. The three-stage rocket, more than 47 meters (154 feet) long and weighing 200 tons, was launched from

Story by Reuters Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world’s biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 661 pounds (about 300 kilograms), and took around a dozen men to haul to shore. Named Boramy — meaning “full moon” in the Khmer language — because

By Peter Bergen, Zahid Mahmood, Masoud Popalzai and Aliza Kassim, CNN Businessman and former cameraman Peter Jouvenal is among five British nationals to be released in Afghanistan, his wife Hassina Syed told CNN. “We are thrilled Peter is coming home. Thanks to the Afghan administration for releasing him,” Syed said on Monday. Jouvenal was detained

By Swati Gupta and Esha Mitra, CNN At least 84 people have died in landslides, lightning strikes and flash floods across India and Bangladesh in the past week, according to officials in both countries. In the state of Assam, at least 41 people have died and seven people were missing as of Tuesday, according to

by Heather Chen, CNN In a sea of thousands decked out in rainbow and pink, Dawn Lim, a full-time officer doing mandatory military service in the Singapore army, was not as flamboyantly dressed as many of her fellow attendees at the city state’s Pink Dot pride parade — but she was just as happy and

Story by Reuters For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft’s decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology. To commemorate its demise, he spent a month and 430,000 won ($330) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer’s “e” logo and the English

By Serenitie Wang, CNN When I left a Covid-ravaged Hong Kong, I was in search of a sanctuary. It was early March and the city was in the throes of the biggest coronavirus outbreak per capita in the world. Little could I have known as I boarded the plane that my cunning escape plan would

By Nectar Gan, Brad Lendon, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China on Friday launched its third and most advanced aircraft carrier from Shanghai’s Jiangnan Shipyard, with new combat systems that experts say are fast catching up with the United States. Named “Fujian,” the ship is China’s first domestically designed and built catapult aircraft carrier, state-run news

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. Wife of the late Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years until he was ousted in 1986. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1929 Birth place: Manila, Philippines (some sources say Leyte Province) Birth name:

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his support for Moscow on “sovereignty and security” matters in a call with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, upholding his backing for the countries’ partnership despite the global backlash against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking on his 69th birthday, Xi also pledged to deepen strategic coordination