A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based conglomerate started arbitration proceedings against Danish logistics and port group Maersk, accusing the company of aligning with Panama and scheming to replace its port operation on the Central American country’s critical canal
April 08, 2026Scam compounds have mushroomed across Southeast Asia since the pandemic
April 07, 2026Vietnam has unanimously elected Communist Party leader To Lam as president, consolidating his control over both party and state
April 07, 2026The U.S. stock market drifted higher in tentative trading ahead of a deadline President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants
April 06, 2026Authorities in Bangladesh say five people have died in a fire that broke out at a factory manufacturing gas lighters near Bangladesh’s capital
April 04, 2026Peace talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistan are advancing, China’s government said, two days after those countries resumed conversations after weeks of fighting that have killed hundreds
April 03, 2026Olympic gold medalist Lin Yu-ting has won her quarterfinal bout at the Asian boxing championships in her first event since World Boxing said she passed a gene test to confirm her gender
April 03, 2026Shocked by gas at $4 in America? Try $15 in this city
April 03, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused China of “bullying” by detaining or holding up dozens of Panama-flagged ships
April 03, 2026Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China
April 02, 2026An undersea magnitude 7.4 earthquake toppled buildings in parts of northern Indonesia, sent people fleeing from their homes, killed at least one person and generated a small tsunami
April 02, 2026Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after weeks of fighting
April 01, 2026A quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan shows business sentiment among major Japanese manufacturers improved slightly
April 01, 2026President Donald Trump lashed out at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran
March 31, 2026Lin Yu-ting, a boxing gold medalist at the center of a gender controversy at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has won her first international bout since then at the Asian championships in Mongolia
March 31, 2026Get ready for kitsch and drama, Asia. Pop extravaganza Eurovision is coming your way
March 31, 2026The Eurovision music spectacle is expanding to Asia
March 31, 2026Japan has deployed its first long-range missile at a southwestern army camp as the country accelerates its offensive capability in response to growing global challenges, including an increasingly assertive China
March 31, 2026China is reporting that factory activity expanded in March, reversing two straight months of contraction
March 31, 2026U.S. lawmakers visiting Taiwan say the United States supports efforts by Taiwan's government to pass a $40 billion special defense budget that is being stalled in the opposition-controlled parliament
March 30, 2026U.S. stocks swung as oil prices kept climbing because of uncertainty about when the war with Iran could end
March 30, 2026China says it is sanctioning a conservative Japanese lawmaker close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi
March 30, 2026Afghanistan’s government has accused Pakistan’s military of shelling the outskirts of an eastern Afghan city
March 30, 2026Police in Nepal have arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections
March 28, 2026U.S. stocks deepened their drops as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years
March 27, 2026Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks in North Korea’s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty as the key allies of Moscow draw closer amid their confrontations with the U.S.-led West
March 26, 2026Iran has banned its sports teams from traveling to countries it considers “hostile,” Iranian state TV reported ahead of Tractor FC’s scheduled soccer game in Saudi Arabia
March 27, 2026U.S. stocks had their worst day since the war with Iran started, as doubt took over again from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the conflict
March 26, 2026Police say a man with a knife killed a woman at a Pokemon store in downtown Tokyo, before stabbing himself
March 26, 2026An engineer-turned-rapper who later became Kathmandu’s mayor is poised to lead Nepal as prime minister after his party won a landslide election
March 26, 2026Asia embraces energy austerity as dire fuel shortages force Philippines to declare national emergency
March 25, 2026The Trump administration has offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran
March 24, 2026North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state
March 24, 2026How K-pop swept Latin America
March 22, 2026High level officials usually shy away from public discussion of Japan’s 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor
March 21, 2026Japan has won the Women’s Asian Cup title with a 1-0 win over Australia
March 21, 2026South Korean rescue workers on Saturday recovered the remains of 14 people from the charred wreckage of an auto parts factory in the central city of Daejeon, where an explosion and fire injured at least 59 others
March 21, 2026There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war
March 19, 2026A Chinese province has intensified a crackdown on fentanyl precursor trafficking, an issue that strained U.S.-China relations and prompted tariffs on imports from China
March 19, 2026Asian countries are racing to save energy and shield consumers as the war on Iran disrupts oil and gas flows
March 19, 2026South Korea’s most beautiful temple keeps a surprising secret
March 19, 2026The US is re-evaluating the threat of Chinese military action in Taiwan
March 19, 2026Authorities in Karachi say heavy rains and strong winds overnight have killed at least 15 people and injured several others
March 19, 2026U.S. stocks slumped after a report said inflation was primed to worsen even before the war with Iran sent oil prices spiking
March 18, 2026Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has left for the United States for what she expects to be a “very difficult” meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump
March 18, 2026A Thai zoo said police has arrested a man after he entered the enclosure of Moo Deng, the viral pygmy hippo
March 18, 2026Analysts say China is unlikely to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and it is probably welcoming a delay in President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip
March 18, 2026What we know on the 18th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
March 17, 2026President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that was planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to form a military coalition to protect the vital Strait of Hormuz
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