As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...
Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a ...
Despite high-profile arrests, dismantling the industry is tough, but activists say arrests are crucial to stopping these ...
They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...
The Buddhist monks who are taking part in a 120+ day Walk for Peace across part of the United States have changed their route ...
Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo ...
In a conflict, Taipei’s fate would become quickly intertwined with the U.S.-Japan security alliance.
Congenital musculoskeletal and limb deformities (CMLD) remain one of the most visible yet under-prioritized birth defects, generating lifelong disability, stigma and economic loss; fresh GBD 2021 ...
FOR SEVEN decades Tokyo was considered the world’s most populous city. That was 15 years too long, according to data released last month by the UN. Until recently the organisation’s statisticians ...
Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Rare earths are at ...
On a humid August morning in Fukuoka, Japan switched on Asia’s first “osmotic power plant.” The system runs 24 hours a day at a seawater desalination complex on the city’s eastern shore, generating ...
Episode 10 of Physical: Asia arrives at a pivotal point in the competition, narrowing the field down to the final three countries through a brutal Death Match, a strategic preliminary game, and the ...