Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrived at the G20 summit with an ambitious plan: rally America's allies behind a coordinated trade and currency campaign against China. He left wi......
A screenshot from a high school parent chat group in Baoding, Hebei province, has gone viral across Chinese social media after a father used it not to ask a simple favor but to adv......
Taiwan prosecutors announced Thursday that they have filed an indictment against a retired Navy sergeant surnamed Ma, accusing him of trying, twice, to recruit active-duty officers......
After a viral video exposed vendors in China dipping napa cabbage in formaldehyde before shipping it nationwide, Taiwanese consumers have started asking an uncomfortable question: ......
South Korea's high speed rail network is going through its biggest shake up in nearly a decade. Korail and SR, the two operators that ran the KTX and SRT bullet train lines separat......
Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) returned home from Palau on September 3 with an unusual complaint about his own security detail during the trip: Chinese plainclothes ......
AI chips are being updated faster than ever, and that pace is forcing materials development to speed up right along with them. Benjamin Hein, a member of the executive board of Ger......
A Japanese anime about a chain smoking cat has turned into an unlikely fight over tobacco regulation, creative freedom and streaming platform accountability in Taiwan. Since late A......
China's delegation has withdrawn entirely from the 2026 Gwangju Biennale, just two days before its September 5 opening, after South Korean organizers restored the disputed "Taiwan ......
Taiwanese entertainer Wuxiong (五熊) has been fined and released by Japanese authorities after prosecutors in Nara indicted her for pouring liquid on a 1,200 year old national treasu......
Taiwan's national security agencies say they have identified a new pattern along the First Island Chain: Beijing and Moscow appear to have reached an understanding to cooperate wit......
Joshua Wong, 29, walked into Hong Kong's High Court again on September 2. This time he was not there as a slogan-shouting street protester or a public advocate. He was there, nearl......
China's Ministry of National Defense released footage on September 2 showing People's Liberation Army warplanes and warships circling a reef in the South China Sea that Taiwan, Chi......
A senior TSMC executive warned on September 1 that European semiconductor subsidies, while effective at reducing upfront investment barriers, cannot replace the long-term customer ......
Taiwan's Labor Minister Hung Shen-han is set to become the first cabinet-level official under President Lai Ching-te to set foot on mainland Chinese soil, traveling to Nanjing on S......
Xi Jinping arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on August 30 for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's 25th anniversary summit, gathering with the leaders of Russia, India, Iran, and s......
China's Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation released a draft Local Surtax Law for public comment on August 28, proposing to consolidate three existing levies into a single tax set at between 11% and 13% — a reform that could significantly raise operating costs for businesses based outside China's major urban centers.
The Taiwan Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Malaysia is warning that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's recent comments on Taiwan could cool future semiconductor investment — even as ......
Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana, a close Trump ally seen as an informal back-channel to Beijing, made a quiet four-day trip to China from August 26 to August 29 — visiti......
More than a week after a wall of water tore down from the mountains straddling Nepal and Tibet, the confirmed death toll in Nepal alone has climbed to 1,050, with nearly 4,000 peop......
Joshua Wong (黃之鋒), the 29 year old activist who has spent nearly six years in and out of Hong Kong courtrooms since the city's protest movement peaked in 2019, pleaded guilty on Se......
China's artificial intelligence ambitions go far deeper than a race to match Silicon Valley. Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd argued this week that what Beijing is reall......
When Google introduced AI-generated summaries into its search results in 2024, it handed the media industry a new vocabulary for an old anxiety. Publishers began calling it the "ze......
SK hynix is actively scouting Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan as a potential site for a large-scale overseas memory chip factory, a move that would make it the first South ......
When Xu Yang, former brand chief executive of Chinese sportswear giant Anta Sports, posted his farewell message on WeChat on August 18, he was already airborne — his Hong Kong-to-L......
Nepal issued fresh flooding warnings on August 31 as water levels surged again along the China-Nepal border — a stark reminder that the Himalayan catastrophe is not over. The renew......
Filipino arrivals to Taiwan surged nearly 28% in the first half of 2026, reaching 400,827 — placing the Philippines at the head of Taiwan's Southeast Asian inbound tourism rankings and signaling a rapid shift in who is choosing the island as a destination.
Liu Yifei has claimed first place in a fan-compiled ranking of the most visually striking actresses in Chinese historical dramas over the past five years, edging out rising stars l......
Taiwanese tourists registered approximately 2.4 million overnight stays in Hokkaido in 2025 — the highest total of any foreign market — overtaking South Korea and China to claim th......
A humanoid robot clocked 100 meters in 9.39 seconds in Beijing on August 22, surpassing Usain Bolt's human world record of 9.58 seconds — then immediately lost control and crashed ......
A Chinese court has sentenced US-based artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison for sculptures he made more than a decade ago depicting Mao Zedong kneeling in repentance — a verdict that human rights advocates say weaponizes retroactive law against political art.
China is registering marriages inside metro stations, bank branches, and mountain resorts. It is not working.In the first half of 2026, 3.275 million couples filed for marriage nat......
Thailand's central bank held its policy rate at 1 percent on August 26, the third straight meeting without a move, leaving the country at one of the lowest interest rate levels in ......
Hsinchu City Government took its tourism pitch to Singapore last week for the first time, sending more than 20 local industry representatives to court Southeast Asian travel partne......
Taiwan's semiconductor trade with Singapore dominates the bilateral numbers, but the Taipei Representative Office has been building two quieter tracks for structural depth: embeddi......
Taiwan's bilateral trade with Singapore surged 94.1% in the first half of 2026, pushing Taiwan's lead over China as Singapore's top trading partner to S$63.2 billion, a gap that Ta......
A head of cabbage grown for export to Hong Kong and one grown for sale down the street in a mainland Chinese city can look identical on the shelf, yet the two vegetables travel thr......
The Philippines is pushing back on two fronts against what officials describe as a widening Chinese influence campaign, with the country's defense chief raising unproven suspicions......
Taiwan's coast guard has spent the past two years quietly building a network of relationships across Southeast Asia, posting liaison officers in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thai......
Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and cultural fixture who turned a childhood in rural Appalachian poverty into one of the most enduring careers in American entertainment, died ......
Yayoi Kusama, one of the most internationally recognized figures in contemporary Japanese art, died at a Tokyo hospital on August 14 at the age of 97, the cause of death given as m......
Bangladesh has moved a step closer to buying Chinese fighter jets for its air force, with a senior government adviser confirming on August 25 that a draft agreement covering the pu......
A wall of water tore down from the mountains straddling Nepal and Tibet this week, swallowing villages, snapping bridges and cutting off entire valleys along one of the busiest pil......
The Economist's recent piece "Taking Taiwan's democracy hostage" opens with a blunt question: how many young Taiwanese is Xi Jinping willing to shoot to take the island? From there......
South Korea is working through two disturbing cases at once this week, both raising hard questions about public safety and institutional trust. On Jeju Island, a police officer sta......
Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu and costume designer Satomi Ito opened a Tokyo exhibition this month to mark the release of their photo book "Couture on Ice," a project built around six......
A crowd gathered in Indonesia's Aceh province on August 20 to watch a public flogging, and according to a report from Ynet, some in the audience shouted "harder" as the canes came ......
Moderna shares did something on Wall Street last week that a single vaccine maker rarely manages twice: they nearly tripled in a single trading session. The stock jumped 176.97 per......
A handful of underage Chinese students spent their own pocket money collecting historical items tied to Japan's wartime occupation of China, then donated the pieces to museums. Chi......
China has spent recent years launching a steady stream of rockets to put satellites into orbit, and some of those launches have crossed into Taiwan's air defense identification zon......
