Many Chinese internet users have pleaded desperately for permission to access to their WeChat accounts after the authorities blocked hundreds of accounts over posts about a rare protest in...
Chinese President Xi Jinping kickstarted the once-in-five-years Communist Party Congress on October 16 with a lengthy speech outlining the party’s actions and its intended direction for the future. In...
Taiwan’s pool of military conscripts for 2022 will be the smallest in 10 years, as the island faces a population crisis owing to falling birth rates. Based on estimates...
China’s internet censors eradicated on Friday, October 14 all online mentions of a protest in Beijing that featured banners criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as the country’s...
SINGAPORE — Earlier in May this year, Tesla chief executive and billionaire Elon Musk tweeted a warning that Japan will “cease to exist” unless it deals with its declining...
SINGAPORE — Myanmar’s junta leader has been excluded from a regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in November, host Cambodia acknowledged on October 5, in efforts to...
SINGAPORE — Pharmaceutical giant MSD (known as Merck & Co. in the United States and Canada) unveiled a new packaging facility and broke ground for a new manufacturing plant...
SINGAPORE — Amid escalating friction between Japan and China — as well as deteriorating public sentiment in Japan toward its larger neighbor — Japanese lawmakers are increasingly cautious about...
SINGAPORE — The pro-Beijing government of Hong Kong has denied imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai the right to be represented by a British lawyer at his impending national security...
SINGAPORE — On Oct. 4, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, leading Tokyo to turn on its missile alert system...
SINGAPORE — Previously, unmarried women in India were permitted to kill their unborn children only up to 20 weeks gestation; the new law "allows" both single and married women...
SINGAPORE — On Thursday, China indicated that it would not relent in its bellicose approach to foreign policy, amid Western criticism that China’s so-called wolf-warrior diplomatic stance has been...
SINGAPORE — Social-media companies such as Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter would face increased accountability to Singaporean users as the country seeks to unveil a series of online safety measures...
SINGAPORE — Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea on Thursday as the final stop on her four-day trip to Asia....
SINGAPORE — On September 29, ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced by the incumbent junta to prison for three years for violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act. This...