Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that a military conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran would be "disastrous" for Pakistan and it is for this reason that his government is making efforts to defuse regional tensions

Despite limited concessions from the United States on tariffs reduction, China is likely to benefit from the new bilateral trade deal through improved investors' confidence in the domestic market, experts told Sputnik

The Japanese Health Ministry announced the first detected case of the mysterious coronavirus on its territory contracted by a man who had visited the inland Chinese city of Wuhan, considered to be the epicenter for the disease's outbreak, media reported Thursday

The so-called one country, two systems governing principle, which gives China's special administrative region of Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy, can only continue beyond 2047 if it is respected and supported by the city's population, especially the younger generation, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday

After winning the reelection in a landslide victory on Saturday, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is likely to face mounting pressure from domestic supporters to adjust the status of the self-ruled island when Beijing forces more countries to sever diplomatic ties with it, experts told Sputnik