By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING -- Forget Zach Snyder's "Man of Steel" or Keanu Reeves' "Man of Tai Chi." China's movie of the summer is a chick flick that has...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING -- His given name, which means “China star,” signifies a lofty ambition. But reality was apparently much more harsh...
By Carol J. Williams
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s decision to outsource asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea drew scorn from human rights advocates...
By Carol J. Williams
As anti-drug-trafficking agents closed in on a North Korean freighter about to enter the Panama Canal this month, the crew from the rogue...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING – The death of a watermelon seller in China’s south-central Hunan province, allegedly at the hands of law enforcement...
By Carol J. Williams
Panamanian authorities have charged 33 crew members of the North Korean freighter seized at the Panama Canal with endangering public...
By Roger Vincent
Two decades ago, One Wilshire was just another fading office tower losing its white-collar tenants to splashy new skyscrapers nearby....
By Richard Fausset
MEXICO CITY— Cuba announced Tuesday that the missile parts the Panamanian government found hidden in a North Korean cargo ship heading...
By Julie Makinen and Don Lee
SHANGHAI — For the last two years, Karen Xie, 32 and earning a good salary at a media firm, has met on average one marriage...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — China's economy is slowing fast. And that may be a very good thing.
By David Zucchino
KABUL, Afghanistan — Zainab's baby was a pale, shrunken figure not much bigger than a man's hand. He lay on his back, crying softly,...
By Carol J. Williams
Malala Yousafzai isn’t the first to proclaim the pen mightier than the sword, but she is probably the only teenager to emerge...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KOCHI, India — It's early on a weekday afternoon and the Mullapnathal shop in southern India's Kerala state is doing a roaring trade...
By David Zucchino
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Congress has appropriated $51 billion to build and sustain the Afghan army, but Lt. Col. Kohadamani...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — With his Lassie-like looks, QQ might seem like the kind of dog that would win kudos from cops for thwarting a break-in or...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — Life expectancy is 5.5 years lower in northern China than in the south because of heavy air pollution, a new study examining...
By Julie Makinen
QINGDAO, China — As far as Li Lejun is concerned, there's one easy way to make a July beach vacation even better than expected: Add...
By Mark Magnier
NEW DELHI — In rural areas of India, many villagers still believe mental illness is caused by evil spirits angry that the sick...
By Lauren Frayer
TARRAGONA, Spain — Despite his nation's deep rift with the West, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can count on one comrade to argue his...
By Sergei L. Loiko
MOSCOW — With his prospects for refuge narrowing, Edward Snowden withdrew an application for asylum in Russia, apparently deciding...
By Sergei L. Loiko
MOSCOW – An unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three satellites exploded and crashed early Tuesday seconds after launch at...
By Zulfiqar Ali and Alex Rodriguez
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Separate bomb blasts across Pakistan killed at least 36 people Sunday, the latest in a series of extremist...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — Dozens of armored vehicles and military trucks rolled into the capital of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Saturday...
By Ken Dilanian
WASHINGTON — Suspected terrorists have changed how they communicate and have become more difficult to track as a result of former...
By Shashank Bengali
WASHINGTON — For two weeks, Rehan Motiwala, a 29-year-old medical student from Pomona, sat stranded at the Bangkok airport, sleeping...
By Louis Sahagun
An ancient Asian dining tradition comes to an end in California on Monday, and grocer Emily Gian is none too happy.
By Mark Magnier
KOLKATA, India — India-born Monica Liu was 9 in 1962 when her family was loaded into box cars for an eight-day rail trip to an...
By Paul Richter
WASHINGTON — President Obama's declaration Thursday that he wouldn't be "scrambling jets" to capture Edward Snowden provided the...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — Knife-wielding mobs attacked a police station, a government building and a construction site in northwestern China on...
By Sergei L. Loiko and Richard A. Serrano
MOSCOW — Edward Snowden's request for political asylum in Ecuador could take up to two months to approve, the country's foreign...
By Sergei L. Loiko and Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — With Edward Snowden tucked away in or near a bustling international airport here, Russia and China hit back Tuesday against...
By Mark Magnier
NEW DELHI -- An Indian rescue helicopter crashed Tuesday evening, killing eight people, the air force said, as the official death toll in...
By Richard A. Serrano and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The seat Edward Snowden had booked in Row 17 was empty when Aeroflot Flight SU150 roared down the runway in Moscow on...
By Richard A. Serrano and Sergei L. Loiko
MOSCOW — The hunt for Edward Snowden stretched around the globe Sunday as the 30-year-old leaker of U.S. classified material flew...
By Julie Makinen and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — By allowing, or perhaps pushing, Edward Snowden to leave Hong Kong, Chinese officials managed to show they would not...
By Nasir Khan and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Attackers killed 10 foreign climbers and a local guide at a remote area popular with adventure tourists in...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — With U.S. prosecutors having filed criminal charges against Edward Snowden, attention turned Saturday to Hong Kong, whose...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
A woman in New Delhi speaks of a life lived in fear after the December gang rape and fatal beating of a 23-year-old on a commuter bus.
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
KARACHI, Pakistan — To members of Imran Khan's upstart Movement for Justice party, the assassination of one of their top officials...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — With a host of issues in need of attention, from Afghanistan to immigration reform to market access, Secretary of State...
By Zulfiqar Ali and Mark Magnier
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 15 people were killed and dozens more wounded Friday when a suicide bomber, apparently a teenager, blew...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — After nearly two decades in Beijing, David Wolf knew it was time for a change when his 11-year-old son, Aaron, somberly...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ANDKHOY, Afghanistan — When Esmatullah got engaged in 1999, he was a 26-year-old day laborer eager to wed, through an arranged...
By Hashmat Baktash and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Even as Afghan President Hamid Karzai this week canceled security negotiations with the Obama administration...
By Hashmat Baktash, Mark Magnier and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president abruptly canceled ongoing security negotiations with the U.S., with his office charging...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
BERLIN — Despite an uphill battle both in Moscow and in Congress, President Obama vowed Wednesday to try to shrink the number of U.S....
By David S. Cloud, Hashmat Baktash and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, the U.S. and the Taliban have met almost exclusively on the battlefield of America's...
By Shashank Bengali and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed...
By Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
SEOUL — The North Korean government Sunday suggested a high-level meeting with the United States "to ease the tension on the Korean...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
HONG KONG — It's probably for the best that Edward Snowden didn't turn up at a weekend rally in support of him here in this former...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — With Edward Snowden in Hong Kong dribbling out morsels on U.S. cyber surveillance activities to the press, Chinese...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Officially, the Chinese government has nothing to say about Edward Snowden.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan –- Mohammad Aziz Ayob adjusts his Boy Scout scarf, leans over and settles a sapling into the dry Kabul soil as...
By Mark Magnier and Hashmat Baktash, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Outsiders may have trouble distinguishing between the turbans worn by Afghan Sikhs, with their tighter folds,...
By Christi Parsons and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, wrapped up a summit at this sweltering California...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — With his photogenic wife at his side and a willingness to make eye contact and engage in small talk, Xi Jinping looks more...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
TUMEN, China — In a concrete building on the northern edge of this city across the border from North Korea, young pony-tailed women...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — For years China has fueled its booming growth with investments aggressively pushed by local officials, who have used their...
By Shashank Bengali and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In January 2010, when Google accused Chinese hackers of infiltrating its network to track emails of human rights...
By Jung-yoon Choi and Barbara Demick
SEOUL -- In a sudden change of heart, North Korea called Thursday for talks with South Korea about reopening a shuttered industrial park and...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping nibbled on empanadas at the home of a Costa Rican coffee farmer. His wife played the steel...
By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times
A 55-million-year-old fossil of a mouse-sized primate has been identified as a crucial evolutionary link in the chain that led to apes and...
By Christi Parsons and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, President Obama hosted China's president, Hu Jintao, in a fastidiously choreographed White House summit...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Mexico hopes a three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping will help the Latin American nation ramp up exports to...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — There was a loud bang, survivors said. Then the lights went out, and fire quickly engulfed a poultry plant in northeastern...
By Hashmat Baktash and Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, including 11 children and two...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
LIANGHE, China — When kindergarten was dismissed on that April afternoon, 6-year-old Ren Xinyi and her younger cousin hurried home....
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — In China's southern Hainan province, a school principal and a housing authority official were arrested after they...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
CANCUN, Mexico — When most people think of Cancun, they see soft white beaches and turquoise water glistening in the sun.
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