An activist group says a Belarusian sprinter is applying for a visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo and plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to send her home from Japan...

A prominent Hong Kong singer and pro-democracy activist has been arrested by the city’s anti-corruption watchdog over accusations that he broke the law by singing at a political rally three years ago...

Residents have laid flowers at the entrance of a subway station where 14 people died after a record-breaking downpour flooded large swaths of Henan province in central China...

Hong Kong national security police have arrested a former editor at the now-defunct Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper, weeks after it was forced to close after authorities froze its assets...

The chiropractor for the American women’s wrestling team has apologized after comparing Olympic COVID-19 protocols to Nazi Germany in a social media post...

A Japanese composer working on the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has quit after coming under fire for bullying classmates during his childhood...

An American journalist detained in Myanmar told his lawyer he believes he has COVID-19, but prison authorities deny he is infected...

A series of more than 20 earthquakes has struck the east coast of Taiwan...