They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...

Cambodia’s arrest and extradition of tycoon Chen Zhi marks a rare strike against a massive online scam network ...

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 ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.

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 ...

The commander of U.S. Forces Korea is urging military planners to rethink how they view East Asia — literally — by rotating the map. Army Gen. Xavier Brunson argues that turning a regional map 90 ...