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Dutch Defense Minister Dilan Ye?ilg?z-Zegerius during an interview Monday aboard the Dutch frigate HNLMS De Ruyter in Tokyo after the warship arrived for a three-day port call

ASIA PACIFIC

Dutch defense chief says Chinese naval encounter won’t deter Europe in Indo-Pacific

By Gabriel Dominguez

The Netherlands will continue its regular military deployments to the Indo-Pacific, Dutch Defense Minister Dilan Ye?ilg?z-Zegerius has said.

A coal power plant in rare earth industry hub city Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, on April 6.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Two-way trade is expected to reach $20 billion this year, President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh told ?Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping greets U.S. President Donald Trump outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14.

WORLD / Politics

Trump’s sharp turn on China: Embracing it as a peer power

By Edward Wong

Washington’s new policy toward Beijing is a sharp departure from U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach during his first term.

ASIA PACIFIC

China’s strike capacity over Australia set to expand, think tank says

ASIA PACIFIC

China direct strike threat to Australia ‘growing’: report

ASIA PACIFIC

Deadly Philippine quake raised seabed by up to 2 meters

ASIA PACIFIC

Taiwan launches website for Chinese nationals to report intelligence

Myanmar’s military ruler, Min Aung Hlaing, shows his ink-stained finger after casting hist vote in Naypyidaw, the capital,in December 2025. He was elected president on April 3 by the country’s rubber-stamp Parliament.

Politics

Myanmar’s president arrives in China seeking stronger trade ties

Myanmar has been diplomatically isolated since a 2021 military coup ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Politics / ANALYSIS

Taiwan’s ‘Dumpling Alliance’ fades under China’s economic squeeze

By Rosalind Mathieson, Ott Tammik, Michal Kubala and Miaojung Lin

Politics

Young Koreans demand answers on ballot shortage as probe begins

By Soo-hyang Choi

Politics

Taiwan eyes curbs on AI chip sales to China to align with U.S.

By Mackenzie Hawkins and Debby Wu

Politics / ANALYSIS

What was left unsaid may be biggest takeaway from Xi-Kim summit

By Jesse Johnson

Politics

China’s Xi vows boosted ties with Kim, but avoids North Korea nuclear issue

By Jesse Johnson

Politics

India’s ‘cockroach’ party protests against education minister

By Alisha Sachdev

Inside a compound at the Chong Chom OSmach border crossing that authorities say was used for scam operations in Cambodia on March 12

Crime & Legal

Cambodia scam centers increase despite crackdown, report says

By Philip J. Heijmans and Rosalind Mathieson

Cambodia, alongside Myanmar and Laos, has become a hub for scam compounds where trafficked workers are often forced to carry out fraud schemes.

Crime & Legal

Thai beer heir sexual abuse allegations ignite rare public reckoning

By Montira Rungjirajittranon

Crime & Legal

Crackdown in Southeast Asia pushes scam networks to Sri Lanka

By Amal JAYASINGHE

Crime & Legal

Inside Duterte’s ICC detention center

By Richard CARTER

Crime & Legal

South Korean judge who hiked ex-first lady’s jail sentence found dead

Crime & Legal

Australia begins hearings into Bondi Beach attack and rising antisemitism

By Christine Chen

Crime & Legal

Sri Lankan police arrest 37 Chinese at suspected scam center

Children sing the national anthem at a school, under an overpass in Mumbai.

Society

India school under overpass offers lifeline to street children

Despite laws guaranteeing free schooling for children aged six to 14, poverty and migration continue to keep many out of classrooms.

Society

Mining turns India’s heat-shield hills to dust

By Arunabh SAIKIA

Society

Lonely consumers in China fuel a $74 billion companionship economy

By Sophie Yu and Casey Hall

Society

Southeast Asia’s fishermen are being pushed to the brink by fuel costs

By Rosalind Mathieson, Randy Thanthong-Knight and Manolo Serapio Jr.

Society

New Zealand population growth improves as Kiwi exodus slows

By Tracy Withers

Society

Supply shortage fuels Bangladesh contraceptive crisis

By Sheikh Sabiha ALAM

Society

Even in North Korea, someone’s in your parking spot

By Ju-min Park, Eduardo Baptista and Brenda Goh

Bang Chun-ja, a 78-year-old South Korean woman living alone, holding Hyodol, an artificial intelligence-powered healthcare doll designed for the elderly, during an interview at her home in Yongin in April.

Science & Health

In aging South Korea, AI dolls are caring for the elderly

By Claire Lee

Authorities are providing AI care devices to seniors living alone, including in districts of Seoul and in Yongin, south of the capital.

Science & Health

Australian researchers teach brain cells to play Doom video game

Science & Health

‘Spreading like wildfire’: Fiji grapples with soaring HIV cases

Science & Health

Blood clots and burning eyes as pollution chokes north Thailand

By Chayanit ITTHIPONGMAETEE

Science & Health

India moves closer to dengue vaccine as final trials underway

By Uzmi ATHAR

Science & Health

China has slashed air pollution, but the ‘war’ isn’t over

By Peter CATTERALL and Rebecca Bailey

Science & Health

Nipah virus fears trigger airport checks across Asia after India confirms two cases

By Rishika Sadam and Jatindra Dash

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Social camouflaging can help neurodivergent people navigate social situations, but researchers say the effort often comes with significant emotional and mental strain.

The challenge of being neurodivergent in Japan’s culture of conformity

By Tomoko Otake

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