China is facing another food safety scare after a viral video exposed produce merchants in Kangbao County, in Hebei province's Zhangjiakou city, dipping napa cabbage in formaldehyd......
Scotland might want to sit down for this one. A whiskey from Taiwan just took the top prize in a major global competition for the second year running, and the news has managed to s......
After 32 years of serialization, the end of Detective Conan may finally be in sight. Creator Gosho Aoyama confirmed in a recent television appearance that the storyboard for the ma......
A Chinese court has handed China Evergrande Group (恒大集團) founder Xu Jiayin (許家印) a life sentence, stripped him of his political rights for life and ordered the seizure of his entir......
China's first fully submersible unmanned vessel — the "Blue Whale" — is entering operational deployment this year after completing sea trials, but a peer-reviewed paper by the vess......
The United States and South Korea abruptly cut their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise nearly in half on August 19 at Washington's explicit request — with Seoul's forei......
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei broke from his usual social media silence on August 15 to rebut a prominent investor's claim that his AI safety messaging has damaged the industry — dism......
Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its World War II surrender on August 15 with a familiar ritual of diplomatic friction, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Yasuku......
At least five people are dead, one is in cardiac arrest, and over 10,000 were stranded far from home after a succession of powerful rainfall systems swept through Japan's Chiba Pre......
The world's largest technology companies borrowed nearly $200 billion in the first half of 2026 to fund AI infrastructure. The surge has pushed credit default swap spreads higher a......
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on August 10, killing at least 132 people and leaving more than 570 injured, as emergency crews raced to reach survivors bu......
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a collective defence agreement on August 7 in Makkah, binding the three nations to treat an armed attack on any one of them as an attack on......
Obese adults without diabetes who received GLP-1 receptor agonists had a 41% lower risk of developing obesity-associated cancers than those who received only dietary and exercise c......
TSMC activated emergency evacuation protocols at its Kumamoto semiconductor facility on July 28 after a powerful earthquake struck Japan's Kyushu region, disrupting power across th......
A book published in Taiwan turns some of the most widely reported political events of the Xi Jinping era into something rarer: sustained portraits of the individuals who lived thro......
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opened to US$263.8 million worldwide — his biggest global debut to date and one of the strongest non-franchise launches in years — while drawing sha......
The Philippine government formally demanded Thursday that China's state-run China Daily remove an AI-generated video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, with both the foreign ministry ......
South Korea has passed what legal observers call some of the world's toughest anti-scalping legislation, but the law's core penalties will not take effect until August 28 — leaving......
Where a fan lives still determines how much — and how easily — they can see BTS live, as the group's 2026–2027 ARIRANG world tour rolls across Asia with markedly different prices a......
Brussels has broken up a smuggling operation accused of flooding European black markets with more than 200,000 counterfeit condoms manufactured in China, the EU's anti-fraud office......
