Simon Denyer

TOKYO — North Korea tried to hack into the servers of U.S. drugmaker Pfizer to steal coronavirus vaccine information, South Korean intelligence officials reported Tuesday, despite leader Kim Jong Un's professed view that his isolated dictatorship is…

TOKYO — It’s grossly unfair for rich countries to send their plastic waste to poor countries that are already struggling to cope with their own waste problems, and the practice needs to stop, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said…

SEOUL — North Korea accused the United States on Friday of circulating “preposterous falsehoods” after Washington charged an alleged hacker for the North Korean government in connection with major cyberattacks, including a 2014 assault on Sony…

BEIJING — Chinese police said Friday that they think a 22-year-old school dropout planted a homemade explosive device outside a kindergarten, killing eight people including himself. Written on a wall near the school was a manifesto-style rant:…

BEIJING — It was an idea born in Beijing and, at least initially, greeted with some suspicion in Washington. But this weekend, the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) holds its first annual meeting to finally prove to doubters that it is…

It was, by any stretch of the imagination, a stunning exercise in electoral democracy. Taiwan’s elections at the weekend have cemented this island’s standing as one of Asia’s most progressive and tolerant places. Not only did Tsai Ing-wen become…

BEIJING – As evidence trickles in that Chinese nationals may have played a role in last month’s Bangkok bomb attack, the government in Beijing has a headache. Unrest among the downtrodden Muslim Uighur minority in China’s western Xinjiang region has…

BEIJING — India is under attack, virtually. A sophisticated cyberespionage group, probably based in China, is taking advantage of India’s weak cyberdefenses to burrow into government bodies and academic institutions to steal sensitive diplomatic…

Even as it struggled to dig its people out of piles of rubble, Nepal’s government rejected Taiwan’s offer to send in a search and rescue team. The United States, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims of Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal and to the much…

NEW DELHI — Plans by China to build three dams in Tibet have rung alarm bells in next-door India, where fears are rising that the northern nation’s thirst for power and water will one day affect the flow of the mighty Brahmaputra River, a lifeline…

Stung by the realization that it faced a child malnutrition crisis worse than in most African countries, India is finally waking to the scale of the problem. Progress is slow and political will patchy, but there are signs that a new approach to…

KATAIYAN, India — Night falls quickly in this Indian village, and soon the darkness is absolute. By 7:30, men, women and children lie down on jute-stringed cots outside their houses. The only sounds come from frogs, crickets and the flapping of…

NEW DELHI — It was billed as a new assertiveness, when India’s usually meek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh supposedly looked his Chinese counterpart in the eye at a summit in Bali last weekend and defended his country’s “commercial” right to explore…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Five bombs exploded in quick succession in crowded markets and streets in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and injuring at least 90 more, police said. The Indian Mujahideen Islamic…

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday visited victims of bombings that killed 45 people in a communally sensitive city, as calls grew for his government to beef up its intelligence apparatus. The 16 bombings in…

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country’s IT hub, officials said. On Friday, eight bombs…

BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Eight small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south Indian city of Bangalore on Friday, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people, police said. “In all these cases they have created the blast using timer…

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Authorities in eastern India banned the trade and consumption of poultry on Tuesday to stamp out a bird flu outbreak that officials said was now nearly under control. In other parts of South Asia, authorities battled to…

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu in India’s most densely populated state could spiral out of control, officials said on Tuesday, as the disease spread to a seventh district. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found among poultry…