Asia Pacific

The Australia Letter is a weekly e-newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s subject is written by Julia Bergin, a reporter primarily based within the Northern Territory. Ron Noll was identified for using his Harley-Davidson bike in flip-flops, or thongs as they’re identified right here, preferring the air flow and luxury of the hassle-free footwear […] More

Vietnam’s current political turmoil intensified on Friday as the top of its Parliament resigned, the most recent high-level authorities departure amid a widening anticorruption marketing campaign that has raised questions in regards to the stability of the nation. Vuong Dinh Hue, the chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly, submitted his resignation on Friday after the Central […] More

Beijing beer made with American hops, to spotlight the commerce relationship between the 2 international locations. Tibetan meals, to ship a human rights message. Mushrooms with attainable hallucinogenic properties, simply because they style good. Where, what and the way American dignitaries eat after they go to China is a critical matter. Choices of eating places […] More

The Supreme Court heard Trump’s declare of immunity After a three-hour listening to in Washington, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to slim the scope of the felony case in opposition to Donald Trump on prices that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. Such a ruling within the case, on whether or not […] More

Sheppie Abramowitz, a consummate political insider who grew to become a strong ally for refugees all over the world, died on April 7 in Washington. She was 88. Her dying was confirmed by her son, Michael Abramowitz, who stated his mom died at Sibley Memorial Hospital, from an an infection and an aortic aneurysm. For […] More

The drones circled over the caves and crevices scattered across the mountain trails in northern Utah, feeding real-time video again to a search crew on the bottom on the lookout for a lacking hiker. Nineteen minutes later, they’d her coordinates, bringing the rescue — a drill — nearer to conclusion. “In this type of atmosphere, […] More

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is assembly officers in China this week as disputes over wars, commerce, expertise and safety are testing the 2 nations’ efforts to stabilize the connection. The United States is heading into an election 12 months through which President Biden will face intense stress to confront China’s authoritarian authorities and […] More

Taiwan was shaken by a collection of earthquakes on Monday and early Tuesday, the strongest with a magnitude of 6.3, partially toppling 4 buildings and conserving frightened residents up in a single day. The tremors had been aftershocks from the magnitude 7.4 quake that killed 17 folks three weeks in the past, the authorities mentioned. […] More

A senior journalist with Australia’s nationwide broadcaster says she was successfully pushed out of India after her reporting on Sikh separatism angered the Indian authorities, accusing the authorities of hindering her from going to occasions, searching for to have her reporting taken down and refusing for weeks to resume her visa. Avani Dias, the South […] More

Thanks to their reign of terror in “Jurassic Park,” Velociraptors are notorious prehistoric predators. The sickle-clawed killing machines acquainted to moviegoers, although, are far faraway from their scientific counterparts — and never simply because the fictional ones lack feathers. In actual life, Velociraptors topped out on the dimension of a Labrador retriever and have been […] More

Taylor Swift flies to Las Vegas from Japan and beneficial properties a number of hours. Hong Kong’s inventory market closes as London’s opens. A clock on a distant Pacific island strikes midnight 24 hours early on a politician’s order. None of these instances are empirical scientific info. Humans have simply agreed to watch time zones, […] More

The Myanmar junta has recaptured the city of Myawaddy, an vital buying and selling hub on the border with Thailand, reversing a key victory for resistance troopers who seized it practically two weeks in the past then have been pressured to withdraw, a spokesman for the insurgent Karen National Union stated on Wednesday. The seizure […] More