CNN – Asia/Pacific

CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea has confirmed it tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its first long-range test in more than four years and marking a potential new era of regional confrontation. North Korean state media said on Friday that leader Kim Jong Un had directly guided the launch of

By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, Emiko Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea has fired what is believed to be its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in more than four years as Western leaders gather in Brussels for a security summit. The suspected ICBM flew to an altitude of 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles) and to

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN, and Reuters South Korea’s latest Covid-19 wave has pushed the country’s total infections past 10 million since the pandemic began, as funeral homes struggle to keep up with a sudden surge in deaths. Cases began rising in February, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The country is

By Masoud Popalzai and Alex Stambaugh, CNN The Taliban prevented girls above the 6th grade in Afghanistan from making their much-anticipated return to school on Wednesday. Just hours after schools for girls were due to open, the Taliban ordered them to shut down again. Teenage girls in Afghanistan have now been denied their right to

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau One passenger was a mother, flying to visit the daughter she hadn’t seen for several years. Another was a woman on her way to reunite with her fiancé after months apart. Awaiting their arrival, those loved ones were instead met with horror after China Eastern Airlines flight 5735,

By Jessie Yeung, Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and CNN’s Beijing bureau No survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been found after a second day of search efforts, Chinese investigators said late Tuesday. In China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade, the Boeing 737-800 — carrying 132 people — crashed Monday

By CNN’s Beijing bureau, Yong Xiong, Lizzy Yee and Wayne Chang, CNN A China Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying 132 people crashed in the mountains in southern China’s Guangxi region on Monday afternoon, according to the country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC). The Boeing 737 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN A deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Wednesday, injuring dozens of people. For some, the incident brought back painful memories of 2011, when an earthquake triggered a tsunami causing a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant, a disaster that’s still being

By Eric Cheung and Wayne Chang, CNN On a regular day, they’re lawyers, software engineers and blacksmiths. But this week, they donned military fatigues, fired assault rifles at numbered targets, and marched long distances in full military gear — all to prepare for a possible attack by China’s military. The 400-odd men were some of

By Emiko Jozuka, Mayumi Maruyama, Karen Smith and Brandon Miller, CNN A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan late Wednesday night, killing at least four people and injuring over 100 others, and cutting power to millions of homes. One of the people who died was a man in his 60s who lived in the city of

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau Tens of millions of people are living under lockdown in China, as the country battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. This outbreak has spread far faster than previous waves of less infectious variants, with daily cases skyrocketing from a few dozen in

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN The Australian government has successfully appealed a court ruling that ordered the federal environment minister to consider the impact of carbon emissions on children when approving new coal mining projects. The full bench of the Federal Court handed down its unanimous ruling Tuesday, saying the duty of care should not be

By Brad Lendon, CNN It was once the biggest symbol of American military power in the Indo-Pacific, battle tested from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and a survivor of a collision with a Soviet submarine. But the glory days of the former USS Kitty Hawk are over, and the retired supercarrier is on its final,