Hong Kong’s new chief justice has vowed to uphold the city’s judicial independence. Can he?
Sat in the city’s Court of Final Appeal, wearing a black robe, ruffed white collar and white face mask, Chief…
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Why some in Japan’s hafu community say they feel like foreigners in their own country
Anna, a woman of mixed Japanese and American heritage, was in a taxi en route to a party in Tokyo…
Yoshihide Suga: The son of a farmer who could be Japan’s next prime minister
Yoshihide Suga is seen by many political analysts as the front runner to replace Prime Minister Abe, who announced last…
India alerts China amid reports of ‘abduction’ on Himalayan border
India’s Minister of State for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju, who is also member of parliament for the north eastern border…
Afghanistan floods kill dozens, with many still missing
Officials in in the disaster management ministry said that torrential rain earlier this week triggered flash flooding in the country’s…
Tigers that once terrorized Hong Kong are almost extinct
They weren’t committing a crime: they were carrying a caged tiger. Two days earlier, the men realized a deer trap…
4 children identified among Air India Express plane crash casualties
All sixteen were residents of Kerala, according to K Gopalakrishnan, a senior official for Malappuram district. A total of 18…
Malaysia finds 1,800 tonnes of illegal toxic waste dumped at port
The containers were dumped last month at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, in Johor state, Bernama reported on Sunday. Inside…
How India’s coronavirus outbreak grew from one to more than one million in six months.
India reported its first case on January 30 — the patient in the southern Indian state of Kerala had been…
US-China relations are at an all time low, but Trump still seems unsure how to handle Beijing
Early in his tenure, he visited Beijing, where he schmoozed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Forbidden City, and…