Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Asia Weekly: Readying Refugees for Resettlement
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
Asia Weekly: Guam Military Buildup Without...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping concludes Europe visits.Joiint military exercises between the US and the Philippines called Balikatan.Taiwan debates demolishing the statues of Chiang Kai-shek.The biggest heavy metal music festival in Southeast Asia.
Taiwan Attracting Tech Students from Southeast...
Taiwan is seeking to fill its high-tech manpower shortage by looking to Southeast Asia as a pipeline. The number of international students studying on the island has been rising, particularly from Indonesia and Vietnam.
Asia Weekly:The Pollution Migrants in New...
Tensions between China and Taiwan flare up near Kinmen islands. Tribal violence in Papua New Guinea claimed around twenty-dozen lives.Nearly three-quarters of South Korean trainee doctors walk off the job.Some people decide to leave India’s capital city of New Delhi due to severe air pollution there. Major turning point for China’s passenger airplane industry in Singapore
On Japan’s Tiny Yonaguni Island, Tensions...
Yonaguni, a remote island, may be feeling the effects of Japan’s post-war military restraint more than any other place. The tiny Japanese island, which is not far from Taiwan, is beingslowly being transformed into a military outpost.
‘If You Laugh in the Face...
Hong Kong author Muk Yu never took part in the 2019 protest movement.But his debut book of eight short stories — titled “Smoke on the Streets” — set in the aftermath of mass resistance to the ongoing erosion of the city’s freedoms under Communist Party rule has already garnered a literary award on the democratic island of Taiwan.
Fiji Election’s Kingmaker Party Favors Australia,...
The leader of the kingmaker party in Fiji’s election says he doesn’t support forming a security relationship with China, preferring foreign relations to be closely aligned with Australia and like-minded countries in the Pacific region.
Island in Solomons Spurns China Aid...
China’s money isn’t welcome in Malaita, a fiercely independent province of the Solomon Islands led by a politician who says it’s wrong to befriend “these people” who don’t believe in democracy.
Imprisoned Ex-PM Najib Razak Petitions for...
Disgraced former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was sent to prison for 12 years for corruption less than two weeks ago, has petitioned the king for a pardon, the Parliament Speaker said on Monday
‘All I Could Think Was, I’m...
Beginning in the second half of 2021, Taiwanese nationals were lured by high-paying jobs to Cambodian scam rings where they were detained, beaten, resold, and otherwise enslaved. According to a rough estimate by Taiwan’s National Police Agency, there are likely thousands of victims