Category: Asia

As sleep becomes a top wellness priority, the global F&B industry is racing to innovate with science‑backed products. Explore the trends, ingredients and market growth […]

The discovery of a suspected Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the Lombok Strait is not a routine maritime incident. It is a breach of […]

US President Donald Trump’s rapid and dramatic turn from threatening to kill “an entire civilization” in Iran on the morning of April 7, 2026, to […]

A paradigm shift is occurring within the modern workforce as organisations increasingly recognise that professional autonomy is not merely a benefit, but a critical driver […]

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan and South Korea ride […]

North Korea’s latest weapons tests suggest it is rapidly integrating battlefield lessons from Iran and Ukraine into a playbook designed to strain missile defenses and […]

A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the United States has introduced legislation to tighten restrictions on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, seeking to block Chinese chipmakers […]

South Korea’s decades of sacrifice are colliding with a more transactional United States – and that collision is raising hard questions about reciprocity, reliability and […]

New data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation soared in March thanks in large part to increased energy costs stemming from President Donald […]

The war in Iran has led to a global energy crisis. Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major energy chokepoint that handles roughly […]

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Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement by President Donald Trump, linked to Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, prompted immediate optimism shipping would quickly resume. It didn’t. The […]

TOKYO — Global markets are struggling to discern if the US-Iran ceasefire is real or happy talk. Yet emerging-market governments in Asia don’t have that […]

Commentators increasingly warn that the United States is losing its soft power – and the data backs them up. The Brand Finance Global Soft Power […]

Words matter in cross-strait politics. Every phrase is weighed, every omission noticed. So when Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun described “imperialist forces” as the cause […]

South Korea’s Daesang Corporation is targeting Japan’s growing appetite for fermented foods as it expands exports of kimchi and gochujang…See More

Pakistan, with China’s help, brokered it. Turkey and Egypt shuttled the proposals. Qatar had been working the phones for weeks. When the ceasefire between the […]

A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israel-US war on Iran. The war accomplished precisely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have achieved in […]

South Korea has drafted new local regulations to effectively mandate genetically modified (GM) labelling in common processed foods…See More

By: Tomoaki Takei Broken incentives are draining talent from Japanese surgery, emergency care, pediatrics, and other essential fields into private aesthetic medicine in a silent […]