The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Despite its growing demographic and economic heft, Southeast Asian voices are surprisingly absent from the global policy ...

The Philippines began a period of national mourning for Pope Francis on Wednesday, with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ...

Yun Sun and Jagannath Panda discuss China and India’s battle for influence and power projection across South Asia.

Pope Francis’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on ...

An order by Malaysia’s education ministry requiring pupils to wear a patch of the country’s flag stitched on their uniforms has been questioned by some as unnecessary, with parents and ...

Kim must have been afraid of a poor country such as South Korea becoming rich." Kim is survived by his wife, whom he met after resettling in South Korea, and by a son and a daughter.

GUANGZHOU/OSAKA -- Nintendo has decided to postpone the release of its Switch 2 gaming device in China, Nikkei has learned, in an apparent response to the country's tight controls targeting the ...

Beijing in recent weeks has also been talking to countries from Europe to Southeast Asia in a bid to expand trade cooperation – and one up the US by winning over American allies and partners ...

the head of the UN trade and development agency (UNCTAD), told UN News on Thursday that the poorest countries – whose activities have a negligible effect on trade deficits – should be exempt. Ms.

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and ...

Some in Yemen have been at risk of famine The poorest Arab country was plunged into war in 2014 when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized much of the North, including the capital, Sanaa.