East Asia Pacific

Spacecraft is designed to travel to the moon, bring back soil, rock samples 

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offers to share COVID-19 advice with US president-elect

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Ghosn's detention in Japan in late 2018 and early 2019 was 'arbitrary' and called on Japan's government to 'take necessary steps to remedy situation'   

Victoria, New South Wales prohibited cross-border travel for more than 135 days

The young trio pleaded guilty to charges related to an unauthorized protest last June

National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien spent three days in Vietnam and plans to visit the Philippine’s foreign affairs secretary this week

Wanchalearm Satsaksit disappeared from self-exile in Phnom Penh in June, and his sister wants to ‘find the truth about my brother’

Leaders from the world’s democracies gathered online this weekend to discuss future cooperation, and China was the main topic of conversation

The rights defender and legal advocate has been threatened, harassed and targeted by online trolls

Lobsang Sangay says he met with the White House’s newly appointed US special coordinator for Tibetan issues, Robert Destro 

Youth protests continue as a kingdom bitterly divided by age, politics and attitudes toward its rulers lurches deeper into crisis

EPP Dialogue is to continue present economic cooperation and forge new economic ties

Treasury Department sees Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act as ‘effective and appropriate tool’ against UDG, a company that seized lands, displaced families to make way for a $3.8 billion luxury gambling and lifestyle project in unspoiled area

State officials say worker who tested positive lied to tracers about exposure to virus

The worrying trend of tattling in China’s universities is becoming increasingly rampant