• Exit polls show Japan's ruling coalition is likely to lose key election
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from Asia
    Voters fill in their ballots in the upper house election at a polling station Sunday, July 20, 2025, in Tokyo. Soaring prices, lagging incomes and burdensome social security payments are the top issues for frustrated, cash-strapped voters. Stricter measures targeting foreign residents and visitors have also emerged as a key issue, with a surging...
  • Mexico City bids adiós to monument to Castro and 'Che' Guevara
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from Asia - Los Angeles Times
    A controversial monument in Mexico City to the Marxist revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara has been removed, setting off debates about their legacy and how to memorialize the past.
  • South Koreans Show Increasing Support for President Lee Jae-myung
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from The Diplomat
    Lee’s approval ratings have exceeded 60 percent, surpassing his 49 percent vote share in the June 3 election. 
  • Europol dismantles pro-Russian hacking group behind Ukraine attacks
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Asia-Pacific
    European Union law enforcement agencies Europol and Eurojust announced on Wednesday that they had coordinated an international operation to dismantle a pro-Russian hacking group, accused of launching thousands of online attacks against...
  • Trump sues Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch over alleged Trump letter to Epstein
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from Asia - Los Angeles Times
    Trump is facing mounting pressure from his MAGA base to publicly release Justice Department files from the Epstein case.
  • Vietnam: Tourist boat capsizes, killing dozens
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
    A sudden storm in northern Vietnam’s famous Ha Long Bay tipped the vessel. Children were among the victims.
  • Beyond the Miracle: Inequality in South Korea’s New Economy
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from The Diplomat
    From soaring household debt to entrenched labor dualism, inequality – not innovation – has become the defining feature of South Korea’s new economy.
  • Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.
  • South Korea: Death toll from rains rises to 14
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
    South Korean officials say at least 14 people have died and several others are missing after torrential rains that began earlier in the week triggered landslides and destroyed homes in the country.
  • Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.
  • Taiwan coach apologises for 'pressuring' students to give blood
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from BBC News - Asia
    An investigation at National Taiwan Normal University found blood sampling had taken place for "research projects".
  • The Downstream Effects of China's Rare Earth Mining
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from Asia
    Bundit Pantarakon stands along the Sai river in Mai Sai, where the Thai Army is building flood control barriers along the river that forms the border between Thailand and Myanmar. China has nearly cornered the market in rare earth minerals, which are a necessary component to much of our technology today. But China sources some of those rare earths and other heavy metals from neighboring Myanmar. And the ramped up...
  • EU hits Russia with sweeping new sanctions over Ukraine war
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from Asia-Pacific
    The European Union approved a new series of sanctions against Russia on Friday in response to its ongoing war in Ukraine. The measures include a lower oil price cap, a ban on transactions involving the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and...
  • News Analysis: Trump's 'force of personality' hasn't delivered on key foreign policy goals
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from Asia - Los Angeles Times
    The most dramatic example of unfulfilled expectations has come in Ukraine, the bloody conflict Trump promised to end even before his inauguration.
  • Granderson: Eliminating national holidays is a promising idea. Start with the racist ones
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Asia - Los Angeles Times
    President Trump hinted at ending federal recognition of Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the U.S. But there are more logical targets.
  • Before Trump, Indonesia Had Another Trade Headache: China
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    Long before President Trump wielded tariffs as a weapon to punish Indonesia, the country was fighting back a flood of cheap Chinese goods.
  • South Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.
  • Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    Relentless rain began on Wednesday, causing flooding in several cities and across vast rural stretches in the province of Punjab.
  • European diplomats urge Iran's foreign minister to push for a nuclear deal
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Asia-Pacific
    French diplomats have added their weight to European efforts to convince Iranian authorities of the need to make progress on talks to moderate the country's nuclear programme. 
  • 'Rewriting history': Claim filed to ICC over Russian looting of Ukrainian heritage
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from Asia-Pacific
    A French organisation has lodged a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the plundering of Ukrainian museums by Russia, which it claims is 'the biggest looting of cultural heritage in Europe during an international...
  • Japan's PM vows to stay on despite bruising exit poll
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from BBC News - Asia
    The result could destabilise Japan's government at a pivotal moment in trade negotiations with the US.
  • As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    The Trump administration has dialed back aggressive measures against China and reversed its position on technology controls as the president angles for a Chinese trip later this year.
  • At least 17 dead in South Korea floods and landslides
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from BBC News - Asia
    There are fears the death toll will rise after raging floods destroyed roads, submerged buildings and ravaged farmland.
  • North Korea bans foreigners from seaside resort weeks after opening
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from BBC News - Asia
    Tourism authorities say foreigners are "temporarily" not allowed to visit the Wonsan Kalma resort.
  • China Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Executive Stokes Foreign Business Anxiety
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    A Wells Fargo banker and a U.S. government employee were blocked from leaving and a Japanese pharmaceutical executive was imprisoned, even as Beijing tries to court overseas investors.
  • Rare Earths Are the Key to Winning the China-US Trade War
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from The Diplomat
    To accumulate industrial leverage over the U.S., China played the long game. The U.S. must do the same.
  • Dozens dead after Ha Long Bay tourist boat capsizes in Vietnam
    Sunday, July 20, 2025 from BBC News - Asia
    The incident happened in Vietnam's popular Ha Long Bay during bad weather, with several people still missing.
  • US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites heighten safety fears
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
    While no radiation leaks have been confirmed following the US strikes on nuclear enrichment facilities in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, the extent of the damage remains uncertain.
  • Japan Election 2025: What to Know
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from NYT > Asia Pacific
    Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.
  • Uvalde school shooter was fueled by Instagram and 'Call of Duty,' L.A. lawsuit alleges
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from Asia - Los Angeles Times
    Families from Uvalde, Texas, are traveling to Los Angeles to confront tech giant Meta and "Call of Duty" publisher Activision in court, alleging they market gun violence to young people through video games and social media.
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