By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
SHAH BANDAR, Pakistan — In his dreams, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari sees a spectacular metropolis rising up from the vast...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — At 49, Wang Zeqiang has achieved the Chinese equivalent of the American dream. Raised in the cornfields of eastern China's...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — If they could sit down together, the chancellor and the hotheaded student activist who helped shut down his...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — In honor of the upcoming 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party, here are just a few of the things you cannot do in...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — With cameras rolling, the reporter from state television's new "Are You Happy?" segment marched up to a Shanghai street...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
YANGON, Myanmar — More than 60 people have been killed and thousands of houses burned as ethnic and religious violence in western...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
SWABI, Pakistan — Under a torrid sun on a parched patch of dirt, 65 young boys and girls wiped sweat from their foreheads and...
By David Pierson and Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Rising home sales and prices are cheered in the U.S. as keys to an economic recovery. But in China, the prospect of a...
By Barbara Demick and Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Purged Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the legislature in a preliminary move that will allow him to be...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — After years of comings and goings, almost everything about leaving Kabul is familiar: the ride through dusty dawn...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — She has a resume that would make U.S. political consultants drool: A renowned soprano who's performed for troops serving the...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education-rights campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been able to...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
ATTARI, India — Real estate prices have jumped sharply in recent months in this area where India meets Pakistan, as resorts and...
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — For most of the last two decades, director Lou Ye has angered Chinese authorities by making movies that touch on sensitive...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that Afghan security forces were ready to protect the country if the U.S.-...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
VRINDAVAN, India — Lalita Goswami was married only a few years when her husband, a Hindu priest who beat her and abused drugs, died of...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
DANDONG, China — Every time Kim Kyung Ok takes the bus into North Korea's downtown Pyongyang, she's startled by changes that look...
By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
Malala Yousafzai did not trade in her modest head scarf for a pair of skinny jeans. She wanted to go to school.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Politics, an official's controversial comments about rape, and an upcoming election.
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On city streets, on the airwaves and in the newspapers of a country numbed by years of bombings and...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The sun pounds down on the U.S. Marine sergeant and the tribal elder in this faceless, bone-colored...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
LAHORE, Pakistan — The seed of jihad was planted in Shahbaz Ahmed in 2001 when fundamentalist mosques in Pakistan welled up with...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Forced evictions of poor and working-class people from their homes and property are accelerating in China, leading to...
By Ken Dilanian
WASHINGTON — The federal government should “view with suspicion” attempts by two Chinese telecommunications companies to...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Getting around China's congested capital requires a certain calculus: In choosing a means of transportation, you must...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Reaching a long-sought milestone, Japanese researchers have demonstrated in mice that eggs and sperm can be grown from stem cells and...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
BRUSSELS — Since becoming head of the world's most durable military alliance three years ago, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh...
By Adolfo Flores, Los Angeles Times
A 25-year-old man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing the son of a Japanese filmmaker in a Beverly Hills carport in 2010, a crime that...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
CHENNAI, India — Kesavan's father and grandfather were caretakers who sold candles and performed basic rituals at their local...
By Ralph Jennings, Los Angeles Times
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Ben Lan threw a line in the water one recent afternoon and caught two fair-sized specimens in 10 minutes. With 10...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
PERUNDURAI, India — When visitors approach, the flightless birds with the large eyes and jerky necks kick their neighbors and peck...
By Jessica Gelt
It's a typical weekday at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. Clint Eastwood is signing autographs just outside the hotel's front window for a...
By Barbara Demick and Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — By expelling renegade Politburo member Bo Xilai from the Communist Party and referring him for prosecution on offenses...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON – The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan is being transferred and another Marine general will take over the war...
By Neela Banerjee and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama, in a rare move, blocked the acquisition by a Chinese-owned company of four wind farm projects next to...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — He was a gentle, if somewhat befuddled man. He couldn't keep track of his money or figure out how to take the bus, but he...
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn't mean it can't serve up a shattering surprise now and again.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The $15,000 that factory worker Li Jianli saved up to buy his white Toyota Corolla turned out to be nowhere near the...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — In its heyday, the largest island was home to several hundred workers who caught fish and collected albatross feathers to...
By Andrea Chang and Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
What was supposed to have been a blockbuster weekend for Apple Inc. was instead marred by lower-than-expected sales for the iPhone 5 and a...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
Far more civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas than U.S. counter-terrorism officials have...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The Chinese police chief who fled to a U.S. Consulate in February and set off a messy, sprawling political scandal involving...
By Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
SEOUL — With less than 90 days left before this year's South Korean presidential election, computer software mogul Ahn Cheol-soo has...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Two former Turkish generals and a retired admiral were among more than 300 ex-officers sentenced to prison terms Friday in...
Re "Afghan 'insider' killings...
By Barbara Demick and Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The last week's anti-Japan demonstrations in China have been a spectacular display of just how easily the ruling Communist...
By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
In the first such fine of an international carrier, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a $150,000 fine against Pakistan...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Danielle Ryan, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, met privately with President Obama after accepting Congress' highest honor...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The worst of the anti-Japanese protests that have swept China in recent days may be over. The financial fallout for the...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Across Afghanistan, at combat outposts in the wind-scoured desert and the jagged mountains, it was daily routine:...
By Jim Puzzanghera and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The United States and China have filed international trade complaints against each other, escalating trade tensions...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
SHANGHAI — The family always knew there was something mysterious about Wang Fanglian, secrets he dared not share with even his closest...
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Anti-Japan rallies spread to dozens more Chinese cities Sunday, as thousands of people demonstrated against the Japanese...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a disastrous day for the NATO force in Afghanistan, four American troops were gunned down Sunday by Afghan...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — When a senior U.S. general met in Beijing recently with Lt. Gen. Cai Yingting, the deputy chief of China's armed forces,...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Does a prince's presence endanger those serving alongside him?
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping appeared in public Saturday after a two-week absence that had sparked intense...
By Ned Parker and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Anti-American violence erupted across the Muslim world for a third day, with enraged protesters scaling the walls of U.S....
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
HONG KONG — As the final call for the flight to Beijing crackles over the public address system, Zhang Qian flips through the pages of...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — After months of criticism over policy malaise, the Indian government on Friday announced a series of bold economic reforms...
By Steven Zeitchik
TORONTO--From “Hearts and Minds” to “Shoah,” documentary film has a long history of tackling difficult subjects like...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama...
By David Pierson and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Facing a sharp economic slowdown at home, Chinese companies are plowing money into U.S. assets at a record pace, making huge...