Asia Pacific

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s First Female Prime Minister, ...

In office for three terms, she traded the country’s leadership with Sheikh Hasin...

With Artillery and Warships, China Practices Blockading...

China flew bombers and fired long-range artillery during a second day of exercis...

Yonaguni, the Japanese Island on the Front Lines of Chi...

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and mis...

China Mobilizes Forces Near Taiwan for Live-Fire Drill

The exercises ended months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait, and came a...

China Will Hold Live-Fire Military Exercises Around Taiwan

The exercises ended months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait, and came a...

Exploring Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, With an Airline Pilot

On a stopover in Saudi Arabia, the writer strolls along the corniche, lingers ov...

The World Wants More Ube. Philippine Farmers Are Strugg...

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out har...

The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic.

Indonesia is building a new, green city in the jungle. Its future is far from ce...

In Myanmar’s Election, ‘Voting Out of Fear, Not Hope’

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, whi...

Families Demand Answers a Year After Deadliest Plane Cr...

Many details of the Jeju Air disaster that killed 179 people remain unclear desp...

How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela...

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the U...

Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churni...

When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing...

In Myanmar, the Election Is Called Fake, but the Human ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its milita...

Thailand and Cambodia Reach Cease-Fire in Brutal Border...

The 72-hour cease-fire could pave the way for an end to the fighting, which has ...

What to Know About the Vote in Myanmar

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are ...

New Jail Term for Ex-Malaysian Leader Najib Razak in Co...

Najib Razak, the former prime minister already serving a sentence linked to the ...

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