Elise Hu

In Asia, there's a lot of stunned reactions regionally to Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton — and as is the case with global markets, there is real uncertainty.

The manufacturer is suspected of giving as much as $3 million in secret to support the equestrian training and Olympic dreams of the daughter of a close adviser to President Park Geun-hye.

A 1990s' "K-Drama" now seems oddly prescient.

President Park Geun-hye replaced her prime minister and finance chief amid a growing scandal that involves a secret adviser with ties to a mysterious religious cult.

President Park Geun-hye's approval rating has plummeted to 10 percent as investigators dig deeper into her ties with a woman whose family claimed to channel voices from the leader's dead mother.

Tens of thousands took to the streets across South Korea Saturday, demanding the president resign over new revelations in a wide influence-peddling scandal.

It's a toss-up between lack of disclosure, if the problem is known, and lack of accountability, if the causes of early fire reports were unknown or misdiagnosed but blamed on the battery nonetheless.

In Samsung's home country, the conglomerate was already feeling the heat in more ways than one.

Today instant ramen is consumed in at least 80 countries — with culturally specific adaptations. The U.S., for instance, gets shorter noodles, because Americans don't slurp them up like the Japanese.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury says a Chinese conglomerate on the North Korean border has helped blacklisted North Korean companies procure raw materials that could be used for nuclear weapons.

North Korea may face tougher sanctions in response to its most recent nuclear test, the most powerful blast yet. But Pyongyang keeps finding workarounds to the punitive measures.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff estimates the yield was 10 kilotons, which is almost twice that of a January test and would be the country's largest blast yet.

Laos is in the interesting position of remaining aligned with the increasingly-shut out North Korea and forging closer ties with South Korea and the U.S.

Obama is in Laos as part of his final trip to Asia as president. Some 60 percent of the population in Southeast Asia is under the age of 35. On Wednesday he held a town hall with college students.

In a historic visit, the president pledges to double funding to clear the many unexploded bombs that are leftovers from the Vietnam War.

The White House has been critical of Rodrigo Duterte for the killing of thousands of suspected drug dealers since he took office. A planned meeting between the two leaders was canceled.

President Obama made history Tuesday — as the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. He'll use the visit to talk about U.S. foreign policy with regards to Asia.

North Korean karaoke videos in the background, decent food and a free copy of the works of Kim Il Sung: a dispatch from inside one of Pyongyang's currency-making outposts.

In a historic step towards rebuilding relations with the poor, heavily-bombed nation, the president will join other world leaders there, after wrapping another big global meeting in Hangzhou, China.

After the device launched in early August, dozens of users reported that their waterproof smartphones caught fire or exploded. Samsung traced the problem to its battery and promises replacements.