Asia Pacific

Thousands of harmless individuals killed. Tens of 1000’s extra pro-democracy protesters locked up. The return of army rule has wreaked havoc in Myanmar in recent times. Now the junta is rising more and more brutal as a insurgent rebellion has gained floor within the countryside. It has put new effort into imprisoning dissidents and the […] More

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen confronted her Chinese counterpart about China’s surging exports of cheap electrical automobiles and different inexperienced power items, saying that they have been a menace to American jobs and urging Beijing to reduce its industrial technique, the U.S. authorities has stated. Ms. Yellen additionally warned her counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng, […] More

To reside within the Maldives is to reside in one in all two worlds. Either you belong to the capital — Malé, a micro-Manhattan within the Indian Ocean — or you’re out in “the islands,” among the many quietest and most distant villages this facet of the Arctic tundra. It is in these locations — […] More

An creator who defected from North Korea has received a defamation lawsuit that he filed in South Korea in opposition to a fellow defector who accused him of rape and the broadcaster that first reported her allegations. The South Korean Supreme Court final month upheld a decrease courtroom’s ruling in favor of the creator, Jang […] More

The defining expertise of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with damaged bones. During sixth grade in Osaka, Japan, Ms. Yamazaki — now a 34-year-old documentary filmmaker — practiced for weeks with classmates to type a human pyramid seven ranges excessive for an annual faculty sports activities day. […] More

China desires younger individuals to place cash away for retirement. Tao Swift, an unemployed 30-year-old, will not be thinking about listening to it. “Retire with a pension?” he requested. “I don’t maintain a lot hope that I can undoubtedly get my arms on it.” Mr. Tao, who lives within the southern metropolis of Chengdu, will […] More

If you’re 50 or older and studying this text, likelihood is you might be sporting a pair of cheap studying glasses to right your presbyopia, or farsightedness, the age-related decline in imaginative and prescient that makes it progressively harder to see high quality print and tiny objects. Eventually, everybody will get the situation. But for […] More

The battle in Gaza, six months in Sunday marks six months because the Oct. 7 assaults that began Israel’s battle in opposition to Hamas. More than 32,000 Palestinians have died, persons are determined for assist and dozens of Israeli hostages are nonetheless being held in Gaza. I spoke with Patrick Kingsley, our Jerusalem bureau chief, […] More

When the most important earthquake in Taiwan in half a century struck off its east coast, the buildings within the closest metropolis, Hualien, swayed and rocked. As greater than 300 aftershocks rocked the island over the following 24 hours to Thursday morning, the buildings shook repeatedly. But for essentially the most half, they stood. Even […] More

Six weeks after 1000’s of residents and interns at South Korean hospitals walked off the job, frustration is rising. Patients have filed greater than 2,000 complaints about surgical procedures and different remedies being postponed, canceled or refused, in response to the nationwide well being ministry. Hospitals have closed wards and restructured workers. Nurses have taken […] More

Ukraine lowered the draft age President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a legislation decreasing the draft age from 27 to 25 and eradicated some medical exemptions in an effort to replenish Ukraine’s exhausted military. He additionally created an digital database of males, beginning at age 17, to crack down on draft dodgers. Parliament handed the laws final […] More

Aid staff killed in Gaza Israeli strikes on an assist convoy run by the charity group World Central Kitchen killed seven of its staff within the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized, and stated Israel “deeply regrets” the strike. He referred to as it “a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting harmless individuals.” […] More