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After 3 years of peace, experts have warned of a terrifying fresh danger posed by N Korea.
There has been no tsunami alert but 860,000 homes are without power.
The Māori economy revving up in a post Covid world. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Experts revealed it is 'extremely unlikely' the virus came from a lab.
Concerns have been growing about China's growing influence in the region.
At least nine people have been killed and 140 are missing.
Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations programme.
Twitter and Instagram have been banned as street protests continue in Myanmar.
OPINION: The UK has effectively offered Hong Kongers asylum - and that's important.
5,000 people are in quarantine while officials look for the source of two new Covid cases.
String of defections raises questions about ruling class' loyalty to the Kim dynasty.
Eleven of 22 workers trapped in China gold mine rescued after two weeks.
Demonstrations were held in scores of cities in temperatures as low as -50C.
Residents at the epicentre of the outbreak must stay home until they've tested negative.
Beijing's "accelerated" aircraft-carrier building programme is bearing fruit.
Anchan Preelert's sentence was 87 years but the court halved it after she pleaded guilty.
North Korea's leader delivers a message to the US with huge military parade.
A ghostly landscape greets displaced villagers one year after Taal volcano erupted.
New York Times: Barely a year goes by without a major air accident in the Asian nation.
The Times: A year ago, everything seemed possible. Now activists "can't see any light".
Babies bring light to a dark year.
In December last year, market vendor Jiang Dafa started noticing people were falling ill.
New York Times: China's Covid shots are user-pays - and they require a leap of faith.
South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus, but not now.
They have the world's largest navy. Now an expert says China is primed and ready for war.
Work grinds to a halt on Kim Jong-Un's vanity project - despite Donald Trump's backing.
In 2013, organisers said the Games would cost US$7.5b. It will cost a lot more.
The first locally-transmitted case of Covid-19 since April has been reported in Taiwan.
The new law has seen innocent people tortured and imprisoned, critics say.
Man sentenced to death for killing and dismembering nine people in his Tokyo apartment.
OPINION: Closer economic ties with China will bring benefits - but also risks.
Muskan Jahan, 22, was forcibly separated from her husband by a Hindu nationalist group.
With schools shut and parents losing jobs, families are putting their children to work.