Seven Minutes That Buried a River ValleyOn 26 August 2026, a vast slab of rock and glacial ice tore free...

Potatoes and Processors on the SteppeIn Ulanqab, on the wide grasslands of Inner Mongolia, farmers bend to lift plump potatoes...

Smoke That Will Not LiftIndonesia is living through one of its worst haze seasons in recent years, with health officials...

Blasting Music on the Bus Could Now Cost S500Step onto a crowded bus in Singapore at rush hour and the...

An Academic Fan Meeting in SingaporeIn a packed auditorium in Singapore, about 500 people gathered to hear a lecture in...

The Order That Never ArrivesYou are hungry. Or you are not. It does not matter. You open FoodNeverComes, pick from...

Red Carpet Welcome Masks Narrow ResultsWashington offered Chinese President Xi Jinping a welcome designed to impress. President Donald Trump met...

Flood Emergency Grips the CapitalBangkok woke to a city transformed by water on Sunday after more than 300 millimetres of...

Washington puts India’s Russian oil strategy under pressureIndia’s decision to buy large volumes of discounted Russian crude is facing its...

A preventable disaster inside a neonatal wardAn official inquiry into the fire at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad...

A new cost for some UPI paymentsIndia is introducing a Merchant Discount Rate on selected payments made through the Unified...

Scientific Evidence Strengthens Nepal’s Funding RequestNepal is preparing to seek about $20 million from the United Nations Fund for Responding...

A regional emergency takes shapeA thick blanket of wildfire smoke is spreading from Indonesia across Southeast Asia, exposing millions of...

India’s avocado boom moves from novelty to serious businessFifteen years ago, ripe avocados in parts of India had little commercial...

Beijing turns to financial firepowerChina is preparing a 360 billion yuan ($53.6 billion) capital injection into eight state owned banks...

A six kilometre stretch carries most of India’s western data trafficIndia’s fast growing digital economy depends on a surprisingly narrow...

Fire Beneath the ForestThe sky over Indonesian Borneo has turned amber and heavy, not with rain but with smoke. A...

Hong Kong activist faces possible life sentenceJoshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's best known pro democracy activists, has pleaded guilty...

Flights resume after two days of disruptionIndonesia began reopening five airports after midnight on Tuesday, following a volcanic eruption that...

A baffling rescue far from the orangutans' homeFive young orangutans have been rescued from a casuarina forest in Odisha, eastern...

Five young apes far from their natural homeFive young orangutans found in a coastal forest in Odisha have triggered a...

A widening nuclear production networkNorth Korea has built a new two storey uranium enrichment facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear...

A hidden response to relentless academic stressFor Xiaomei, a high achieving student in a coastal province of China, prescription drugs...

More than 50 attacks reported across three provincesThailand’s southern border region was hit by a wave of coordinated arson, bomb...

A factory revolution hidden in plain sightIn classrooms, factories and research centers across China, robots are moving from demonstration platforms...

Authorities trace cabbage shipments after video confirmationChinese authorities have opened a nationwide food safety investigation after confirming that a wholesaler...

Haze linked to sharp rise in respiratory illnessMalaysia has recorded a steep increase in asthma and upper respiratory tract infection...

Hospitals struggle as flood related infections riseMetro Manila hospitals are facing a sharp increase in leptospirosis cases after weeks of...

A generation enters work on weaker financial groundYoung Malaysians are entering the workforce with qualifications that promise better earnings, yet...

A new chapter for Assam teaIndia has entered the commercial matcha market, with the first locally produced batch sold at...

A wider economic partnership takes shapeMalaysia is seeking a deeper economic relationship with South Korea, moving beyond traditional manufacturing and...

A rapidly intensifying Pacific climate eventA rapidly strengthening El Niño in the tropical Pacific could become the strongest observed in...

Yen rally loses momentum after official supportThe yen has given back about half of the gains produced by a rare...

A flood exposes a crisis built over yearsWhen floodwaters receded in parts of Metro Manila last week, they revealed a...

A contest focused on the lunar south poleChina and the United States are preparing for a new phase of lunar...

A treaty under pressureThe Philippines and the United States are marking 75 years of their mutual defence alliance with new...

Sentencing follows viral posts about Bali Day of SilenceA court in Bali has sentenced Swiss tourist Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26,...

Europe becomes a new testing ground for Chinese autonomous taxisChinese autonomous driving companies are moving deeper into Europe through partnerships...

Three prisons hit by fresh violenceFresh unrest has spread through Sri Lanka's prison system, leaving at least three inmates dead...

A rare alliance moves the yenThe United States and Japan have joined forces to support the yen after the Japanese...

Yen falls back into the intervention zoneThe yen lost 1% against the US dollar on Monday, closing at 159.29 and...

A new lunar contest takes shapeThe United States and China are competing to return astronauts to the Moon, yet the...

A rare alliance moves the yenThe United States and Japan have joined forces to support the yen after the Japanese...

Three prisons hit by fresh violenceFresh unrest has spread through Sri Lanka's prison system, leaving at least three inmates dead...

Europe becomes a new testing ground for Chinese autonomous taxisChinese autonomous driving companies are moving deeper into Europe through partnerships...

A treaty alliance enters its 75th yearThe Philippines and the United States have renewed plans for military exercises, maritime cooperation...

A refuge under growing pressureMalaysia has long been a destination for Rohingya Muslims escaping persecution in Myanmar. That sense of...

A hidden pattern of violenceThe killing of Liza Shams began with years of abuse inside her home. Weeks before her...

A major redesign of the US undersea strike forceThe US Navy plans to designate 19 Virginia class attack submarines as...

Seoul faces a difficult choiceSouth Korea is under growing pressure to provide Ukraine with air defense systems, a request that...