Asia-Pacific

Economy top priority as Christoper Luxon takes office as public health officials say move will be ‘catastrophic’ for Māori communities

Pyongyang draws international condemnation over move described by Kim Jong-un as exercise in right to self defence

Cash-rich consumers are afraid to go out and spend in case bad times are around the corner

South Korea suspended part of the inter-Korean deal in response to Pyongyang’s launch on Wednesday

Men have been stuck in the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarakhand state for 11 days

Lai Ching-te is framing the contest as a choice about the island’s relationship with Beijing

Men stuck in tunnel since November 12th but rescue efforts hampered by snags in drilling through debris in mountainous terrain

The UN Security Council passed its first resolution on the conflict in Gaza, calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas and for extended humanitarian pauses to protect civilians

I told him I spent an afternoon with Leonard Cohen many years ago. I might as well have said I used to go drinking with Rimbaud

Construction workers have been stuck underneath collapsed highway for five days

Two leaders agree to resume formal contacts between Pentagon and People’s Liberation Army

Biden says four-hour summit with Xi in San Francisco resulted in ‘some important progress’

Xi calls the US-China relationship 'the most important bilateral relationship in the world'

Washington likely to press for restoration of contacts between US and Chinese military leaders and to urge Beijing to stop the flow of fentanyl

Authorities have closed all schools and educational institutions, asked people to work from home, restricted the movement of trucks and halted all building activity

Shanghai Letter: Micheál Martin emphasises complexity of global supply chains and impossibility of decoupling economies of China, Europe and the US

Students at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) waved Chinese and Irish flags and called out ‘Fáilte, a Thánaiste’

Authorities in Lahore, Pakistan have shut schools and businesses as the air quality in the city was ranked as the worst in the world with a hazardous rating.

Micheál Martin, speaking in Shanghai, said fewer than 30 per cent of foreign nationals who were in Gaza have succeeded in getting out

Micheál Martin says in Shanghai he is confident ban will be lifted within a few months

Regional governments contacted to push for release of Irish citizen Emily Hand and other hostages abducted by Hamas

More than 30 Thai agricultural workers were killed and 22 taken hostage by Hamas fighters, according to Thai foreign ministry

Tánaiste says meetings with Chinese vice president and foreign minister will cover global issues including Ukraine and the Middle East

Rescue work expected to be slow as emergency teams clear roads blocked by landslides

Primary purpose of three-day trade mission to Seoul was winning more business for Irish companies

Order to expand border facilities could double flow of migrants being forced to return to Taliban-ruled neighbour

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met Yoon Suk-yeol on the last day of his visit to Seoul on Friday as part of a trade mission

Schools were shut and non-essential construction was banned around Delhi

Seoul letter: Trends take hold quickly in Korea and often spread across Asia before moving outwards into the US and Europe, writes Denis Staunton

Constitutional court ruling in Seoul upheld ban on same-sex activity within the armed forces

Mr Varadkar stepped briefly into what is technically the territory of North Korea

Like Ireland, South Korea has moved from being a relatively poor country to one of the richest within generations

Deadline passes for undocumented immigrants to leave Pakistan

Islamabad’s threat has torn families apart and pushed even Afghans with valid papers to leave

Taoiseach will be joined by three other Government ministers this week in effort to boost exports and attract investment

Ruling BJP rejects claims of involvement following Apple notifications of possible ‘state-sponsored’ attacks

The government plans to downsize Seoul’s unification ministry and a poll in June found just 28.5 per cent of South Koreans wanted a single Korean state

Some 22 people, mostly tourists, killed in 2019 when White Island volcano erupted

Further 25 people had been injured in Sunday’s crash in Andhra Pradesh

After official investigation into the disaster only lower-level officials were prosecuted, and the victims’ families say they still do not know the actual cause of the crush which killed 159 young people