CNN – Asia/Pacific

By CNN staff Eva Cai knows she wants a child. She’s just not sure if she wants a husband. So, in 2019 she took a train across the border from…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Zahra shelters in her Kabul apartment, anxiously peering through the window at Taliban fighters in the parking lot below. She…

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN A former senior official of Afghanistan’s ousted President Ashraf Ghani has detailed a vivid picture of the last weeks…

By Rob Picheta, Nadine Schmidt and Tim Lister, CNN Afghans are witnessing early glimpses of the true nature of Taliban rule, after the brutal…

By Angus Watson and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN New Zealand will extend a nationwide lockdown for four days after uncovering several locally transmitted…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN As the highly infectious Delta variant took hold in China last month, Zhang Wenhong, a well-respected infectious…

By Nilly Kohzad, CNN Since the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan, seizing provincial capitals at lightning speed, it’s been difficult to…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Chinese astronauts working on the country’s planned space station carried out their second spacewalk on Friday, according…

By Rob Picheta, Saleem Mehsud and Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban have moved swiftly to crush early opposition to their rule across Afghanistan, clashing…

By Rob Picheta and Saleem Mehsud, CNN The Taliban’s stunningly swift takeover of Afghanistan has caused dread across much of the nation, as…

By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Little by little, life appears to be creeping back to normal in Kabul, even though no one…

By Mostafa Salem, Tara John, Tim Lister and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Afghanistan’s former President, Ashraf Ghani, is in the United Arab Emirates,…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN On July 20, Chinese authorities detected a cluster of Covid-19 cases in the eastern city of Nanjing. The virus soon spread…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN The chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan has presented Beijing with a propaganda boost, with Chinese state…

By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN New Zealand’s first community Covid-19 case in six months is the Delta variant — and genome sequencing shows…

By Tim Lister, Clarissa Ward and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Fawad is one of hundreds and probably thousands of Afghans whose applications for visas to…

By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The busy Kabul street looks almost as if nothing has changed. People rush by, as shopkeepers…

By Rob Picheta, Celine Alkhaldi, Nada Bashir and Nina Avramova, CNN Thousands of desperate Afghans remain stranded under Taliban rule in Kabul on…

By Julia Hollingsworth and Chandler Thornton, CNN New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the…

By Clarissa Ward, Tim Lister, Angela Dewan and Saleem Mehsud, CNN Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s Presidential Palace hours after…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the pro-democracy group that organized some of Hong Kong’s biggest protests, announced…

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN At least four people are presumed dead and two are missing after torrential rain triggered mudslides throughout Japan. Three of…

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Over the last week, the Taliban has made significant gains across Afghanistan and now control over half of the…

By Clarissa Ward, Brad Lendon and Rob Picheta, CNN The Taliban have seized Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, and a number of other…