By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
The desert's nighttime chill had taken hold at a small U.S.-Afghan base in the Taliban's heartland: the home village, in fact, of Mullah...
By Paul Richter and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
North Korea's offer to suspend uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors into the country breaks an impasse over its nuclear...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
A new report vividly portrays the Japanese government's fears in the first hours and days after the March 11, 2011, tsunami overran a...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
Anti-U.S. protests and other deadly attacks roiling Afghanistan have deepened concern at the Pentagon and White House about the plan to wind...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
A bit player only a decade ago, China has emerged as one of the most important forces in the global gold market, helping fuel the rising...
By Aimal Yaqubi, Los Angeles Times
Afghans rioting over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military installation hurled grenades at an American base in northern Afghanistan on...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
The spasm of violence that has shaken the country since copies of the Koran were dumped in a trash incinerator at a U.S. military base is...
By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
When Guo Sicheng looks at American basketball sensation Jeremy Lin, he can almost see himself.
Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Harry C. McPherson Jr., who served as special counsel and chief speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to '69 and was a...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Pali Nath has a high-tech advantage in performing an ancient ritual. The snake charmer's cobra is computer chipped and ready to dance. Well,...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
At the gate of the capital's army recruitment headquarters, a young Afghan sergeant in crisp camouflage and a jaunty beret demanded a letter...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Vikramjit Singh stands in the parking lot of a posh club in Chandigarh discussing one of his favorite subjects: guns. He owns 10 or so; he...
By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
Independent filmmakers are joining Hollywood's major studios in praising a new trade agreement that eases restrictions on distributing...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Before Abdul Majeed was swept away by intelligence agents a year and a half ago, he weighed 154 pounds. Now he weighs 88.
By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times
Americans have long gone to China to adopt babies. In a twist, Chinese couples are now coming here to become parents — through...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
The Chinese Communist Party sent a pointed message to Christian Bale recently: You will not work in this town again.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
A few years ago, she embodied the rags-to-riches legend of modern China: The daughter of an illiterate farmer starts a hair salon when she...
By Alex Rodriguez and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday sought to secure help from Pakistani leaders in facilitating peace talks with Pakistan-based...
By Edmund Sanders and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
The technique had a familiar ring.
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times
If you are in the market for a late-model used car, look for Japanese-built vehicles, be selective of American brands, and buy European with...
By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
Chinese television broadcasters have been ordered to stop showing foreign programs during prime time and limit the total amount of...
By Paul Richter and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
U.S. and Chinese officials have spent three years carefully planning how to introduce the man likely to be the next Chinese leader to an...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Six months ago, in a moving ceremony during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, President Hamid Karzai went on Afghan television to pardon...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
In Afghanistan, to be a judge is to be a target.
By Barbara Demick and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
In 1969, a pale, gangly 15-year-old walked down a dirt road flanked by desiccated yellow cliffs from which generations of Chinese farmers...
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Chinese consumers are buying 3-D television sets in record numbers. But they may have nothing more exciting than cooking shows to watch.
By Tiffany Hsu and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Millions of Chinese have come to love Big Macs and Whoppers. So when a California-inspired chain put up signs in Shanghai announcing the...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Chinese imports and exports fell in January, the first declines in two years and a potential reflection of worsening economic conditions...
By Adriana Leon and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
An apparent U.S. drone strike early Thursday in northwest Pakistan killed a top Pakistani Taliban commander also serving as a key Al Qaeda...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
A criminal court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for deposed Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed amid fear of further violence in the...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Shopkeeper Mauji Lal was boarding a train four years ago when the crowd pushed him onto the tracks and he was run over. Doctors amputated...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
A crusading former police chief in the boomtown of Chongqing disappeared under unexplained circumstances and reportedly may have tried and...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
By Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times
Taiko and Gemma Chen may not celebrate all 15 days of the lunar new year, nor do they believe they are sweeping away prosperity by...
By Jonathan Kaiman and Barbara Demick
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
The expressions of hurt and outrage in India that followed recent jokes by late-night comedian Jay Leno and the hosts of the BBC program...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
By his own admission, Park Jung-geun has long been an Internet wiseguy, a young photographer and blogger with a cyber chip on his shoulder...
By Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times
Al Qaeda's ability to conduct terrorist operations against the United States has diminished in the last year, but U.S. intelligence agencies...
By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
Tucked away on a glossy menu in the Herbal Cafe, a Beijing restaurant known for its herbal teas and low-fat Cantonese dishes, is a little...
By Jerry Hirsch and Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times
For more than a decade, executives at several major Japanese auto parts makers met in secret, sometimes speaking in code, to fix prices on...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
After France, the deluge?
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Angry about a lack of government aid amid plummeting beef prices, cattle breeder Moon Dong-yeon reportedly took a drastic measure that...
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
As Japan's preeminent graphic designer and art director in the 1970s and early '80s, Eiko Ishioka helped build her reputation by heading...
By J. Michael Kennedy, Los Angeles Times
The object of the game is to see how hard a hand on the computer screen can slap a cartoon image of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
For more than 46 years, they've been inseparable, this quirky barber and his ramshackle excuse for a shop. People who know them both say it'...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick and John Lee, Los Angeles Times
It is the television show that everybody watches and everybody loves to hate.
By Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
When Jeon Gyeong-suk lost her husband to cancer three months ago, she agonized over how to keep his remains.
By Mark Magnier and Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
In America, a family with eight children is the premise for a reality television show.
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times
Reflecting its diversifying community, the Japanese American National Museum announced Friday that it had hired a fourth-generation...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
An Afghan officer who gunned down eight U.S. Air Force advisors and a contractor last year had previously threatened to kill Americans and...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in 21/2 years in the final three months of 2011, weighed down by shrinking exports, tighter bank...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Dealing a heavy blow to Pakistan's embattled government, the Supreme Court on Monday initiated contempt proceedings against Prime Minister...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor of a small apartment without a stick of...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
International aid groups say they're under siege in Pakistan, demonized by hard-line Islamists, viewed as spies by suspicious Pakistanis...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
In its standoff with President Asif Ali Zardari's administration, Pakistan's powerful military is relying on an institution that experts say...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
The lamb chops were cooked to perfection. Fine wines flowed. Then came the piece de resistance: a 1997 Chateau Petrus Pomerol that...
By Ralph Jennings and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
By Paul Richter, Simon Roughneen and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
The Obama administration restored full diplomatic relations with Myanmar, moving swiftly to reward the military-backed government for...
By Jonathan Kaiman, John Lee and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times
Apple Inc. halted sales of the iPhone 4S at its retail stores in mainland China after a massive crowd waiting outside its Beijing flagship...
By Ralph Jennings, Los Angeles Times
Ever since Taiwan's democracy took shape in the 1990s, elections have revolved around relations with mainland China.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
India has gone a full year without recording a new case of polio, a significant benchmark for the South Asian nation and an encouraging...
By Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
The U.S. intelligence community says in a secret new assessment that the war in Afghanistan is mired in stalemate, and warns that security...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Kazuo Okawa's luckless career as a "nuclear gypsy" began one night at a poker game.
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to...
By Barbara Demick and John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the mercurial strongman who styled himself as a "Dear Leader" while ruling over an impoverished police...
