China began three days of military exercises around Taiwan on Saturday in what it called a “stern warning,” after the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met earlier in the week with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in a show of Taiwanese-U.S. solidarity. The People’s Liberation Army said it was holding air and sea “combat readiness” patrols and drills […]
BEIJING — Chinese officials on Saturday offered a lengthy rebuttal to accusations by the World Health Organization that they had been slow to share data about the possible origins of the coronavirus, blasting some in the organization as political “tools” whose remarks were “intolerable.” Scientists from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention made […]
Jacinda Ardern, who shocked the world in January when she announced her surprise resignation as prime minister of New Zealand, on Wednesday bade farewell to politics in her home country. “The reasons I came here, they never left me,” she told lawmakers in a half-hour valedictory speech in Parliament that cited climate change, child poverty […]
SEOUL — For more than three decades, North Korea has sent workers abroad to make money for its regime. These workers have toiled in logging camps in Russia, factories and restaurants in China and farms and shipyards in Eastern Europe. They have sweated in construction sites in the Middle East and worked as doctors in […]
Thousands of miles from the cities that Russia is bombing in Ukraine, China has been studying the war. In an indirect struggle between two superpowers on the other side of the world, Beijing sees a source of invaluable lessons on weapons, troop power, intelligence and deterrence that can help it prepare for potential wars of […]
A passenger ferry caught fire overnight in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people and leaving at least seven others missing, officials said on Thursday. The ship was at sea near the southern island province of Basilan when the fire broke out on Wednesday evening, the Philippine Coast Guard said. The cause of the […]
The political party of Myanmar’s imprisoned opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been officially dissolved, in yet another blow to the Southeast Asian nation’s democracy, two years after the military staged a coup. The party, the National League for Democracy, was disbanded by Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission, state media said late Tuesday night. […]
For most of last year, thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the war. There they found refuge in a tropical paradise where locals rolled out the welcome mat for Ukrainians fleeing the shelling and Russians dodging the draft. Then, a Russian influencer scaled a 700-year-old sacred tree, […]
The authorities on Monday restricted communications across the Indian state of Punjab for a third day as a manhunt continued for a Sikh separatist leader, whose rapid rise in the public eye has stirred fears of violence in a state with vivid memories of a bloody separatist insurgency. The statewide search for Amritpal Singh, 30 […]
BANGKOK — In Thailand, a steel canister with dangerously radioactive contents has vanished from a coal power plant and may have been missing for three weeks — or possibly longer. The search for it, which began a week ago, has expanded repeatedly but so far yielded nothing. Globally, radioactive objects are lost fairly often, sometimes […]