At least seven climbers died when a violent snowstorm destroyed their camp on a Himalayan peak in western Nepal. A five-member South Korean expedition team and four Nepali guides were at the base camp of Mount Gurja when the storm struck, police said on Saturday. The crew of a rescue helicopter confirmed seeing seven bodies in the ruins of the camp, but was unable to stay due to bad weather conditions.

We know that China often disappears and abuses human rights defenders but when it can disappear even one of its most famous celebrities, the threat of enforced disappearance looms over anyone China claims within its jurisdiction.

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Kyrgyzstan on Saturday to crack down on groups linked to the Fethullah Gulen movement which Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, something Bishkek has so far refused to do.

There are so many children in China whose parents have been detained that orphanages have become overcrowded and children have been moved away to other centers, where their parents may have difficulty eventually finding them.

From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too.

I think it’s time to retire Maria as a name for any storm. The name has been wiped from the hurricane list in the Atlantic after Hurricane Maria completely upended life in the Caribbean. But it’s still on the rolls in the Pacific, where Typhoon Maria is about to make life miserable.

Amnesty International is launching a landmark new report on accountability for crimes against humanity targeting the Rohingya and the wider crisis in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.

You can hardly blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for enjoying a “told you so moment”. He lately reminded European leaders that their all-out spat with the United States is what happens when you are too deferential to American hegemonic ambitions.

More than a million Uyghurs are believed to be in Chinese “re-education centers.”

Some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish weighing eight kg (17 lb) were found in the stomach of a whale that died in Thailand after a five-day effort to save it, a marine official said on Sunday.

Interventionist policies from the west have failed in the Middle East. It’s time for the rest of the world to step up, says Chandran Nair, chief executive and founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, a Hong Kong based thinktank

Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see?

A 200-year-old dream might finally become a reality under China’s Belt and Road. Thailand’s Kra Canal: China’s Way Around the Malacca Strait. By Rhea Menon.

Japan on Saturday activated its first marine unit since World War Two trained to counter invaders occupying Japanese islands along the edge of the East China Sea that Tokyo fears are vulnerable to attack by China.

The third summit ever between the Koreas could prove significant in the global diplomatic push to resolve the standoff over the North's nuclear program.

In Asia, there will be no fish stocks for commercial fishing by 2048 if trends continue. That's one of the projections made by four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity that showed the Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate.

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A clean-up campaign has begun at Mount Everest, aiming to airlift 100 tonnes of rubbish left behind by tourists and climbers of the world's highest mountain. On its first day, 1,200kg (2,600lbs) of waste was flown from Lukla airport to Kathmandu for recycling. Mountaineers are required to bring back whatever waste they generate on their climb.

Many people are trapped after the 6.4-magnitude quake struck near the city of Hualien, media say.