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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Laura King, Los Angeles Times
After France, the deluge?
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
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 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
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 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 Barbara Demick and John Lee, Los Angeles Times
It is the television show that everybody watches and everybody loves to hate.
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 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
In its standoff with President Asif Ali Zardari's administration, Pakistan's powerful military is relying on an institution that experts say...
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 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 Ralph Jennings, Los Angeles Times
Ever since Taiwan's democracy took shape in the 1990s, elections have revolved around relations with mainland China.
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 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
Joseph Michael Murphy had the defeated look of a man on a losing streak at the track, because that's precisely what he was.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner faces a stiff challenge this week as he tries to convince China, Japan and South Korea to reduce...
By Barbara Demick
Even the police are driving Porsches.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
In the gray light of each cold dawn, the parents of 10-month-old Shoaib hold their own breath as they listen for the rasp of his, waiting to...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
In a case that highlights the perils that await foreigners doing business in China, two Indian traders who were allegedly beaten and...
By Alex Rodriguez and Zulfiqar Ali, Los Angeles Times
Islamist militants on Thursday claimed responsibility for killing 15 Pakistani paramilitary troops this week, dealing a serious setback to...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
For nearly 40 years, farmer Eiichi Fukuda has put his faith in the land, trusting the annual yield of the fertile brown soil to help feed...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Barely a decade ago, Beijing bicyclists pedaled down alleys here lined with courtyard houses that had no indoor toilets. Now the alleys have...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
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 Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
The death squad shows up in uniform: black masks and tunics with the name of the group, Khorasan Mujahedin, scrawled across the back in...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Buddhist monk Ando remembers the toil of all those years, trying to satisfy the training demands of an aging martial arts master who could...
By John M. Glionna and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
On a snowy, overcast day, North Korea bid farewell to "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and ushered in a new era of leadership Wednesday under his...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
A rally in Karachi organized by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan drew a massive crowd of supporters Sunday, bolstering his image as...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
Robert Egan has a pretty good feel for how desperate the CIA is for scraps of information about North Korea.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
In 1967, Kim Young-soon was a dancer in Pyongyang, North Korea, when her best friend visited with crazy news.
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
For the Chinese government, a dead Kim Jong Il is a popular Kim Jong Il.
By David S. Cloud and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Chu Sung-ha says he knows for sure that some of the people shown sobbing on television over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are...
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...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Falling home values. Debt-strapped borrowers. Real estate woes dogging the economy. It's old news in the United States, but now the air...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Kazuo Okawa's luckless career as a "nuclear gypsy" began one night at a poker game.
