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Asia

  • Ren Benxin, a resident living near Dongting Hu, approaches his flooded home via boat.

    ‘We need to be prepared’: China adapts to era of extreme flooding

  • Pro-democracy demonstrators scuffle with police

    Hong Kong police issue bounties for six more overseas activists

    HK$1m rewards target people accused of national security crimes who fled after pro-democracy protests
  • The opening day for JF Books in Washington DC.

    ‘A sense of freedom’: China’s small bookshops relocate across the world

    As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas

  • What is neijuan, and why is China worried about it?

  • Bangladesh formally asks India to extradite former PM Sheikh Hasina

  • More than 1,000 North Korean military casualties in Ukraine war, says South Korea

  • Sweden says China denied request for prosecutors to board ship linked to severed cables

  • Did democracy survive the 2024 global election marathon?

  • Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law

  • Japan relaxes bear-shooting laws amid rise in attacks

Asia Pacific

  • Flags of Pacific Islands Forum member nations flutter in Tonga's capital of Nuku'alofa on 25 August 2024. Tonga’s government elected a new prime minister on Tuesday.

    Tonga
    Tonga government elects ’Aisake Valu Eke as new prime minister

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will he heading to China with a trade delegation at a time of global economic uncertainty as a result of Donald Trump’s threats to increase trade tariffs when he returns as US president.

    China
    Let China build electric cars in UK, Tory ex-chancellor tells Rachel Reeves ahead of trade trip

  • Passengers board a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 plane

    Vanuatu
    Vanuatu hit by another earthquake as hundreds of Australians return home

  • Xi Jinping waves at a crowd holding flowers and flags as his wife, Peng Liyuan, follows behind.

    Macau
    Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos

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South & central Asia

  • Indian film director Shyam Benegal, right, pictured during a discussion on Indian cinema in Hyderabad, India, in 2008.

    Film
    Shyam Benegal, influential director of India’s ‘parallel cinema’, dies aged 90

  • Tulip Siddiq

    Politics
    Tulip Siddiq questioned over multibillion-pound embezzlement allegations

  • Arakan Army members posing for a photo in front of the captured district police office in Ann township, in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, on 29 November

    Myanmar
    Myanmar rebels claim control over major western military headquarters

  • Police officers stand guard during a protest by Shia Muslims against an attack on passenger vehicles in Kurram

    Pakistan
    At least 30 children die from drug shortages in Pakistan after sectarian violence

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Pictures & video

  • The surroundings of the Casino Lisboa with pawn shops and restaurants

    Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures

  • Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to 'step aside' after the national assembly voted to remove him from office

    1:01

    'I will never give up': South Korean president reacts to impeachment – video

    Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to 'step aside' after the national assembly voted to remove him from office
  • Thousands celebrated outside parliament as the motion was announced.

    1:07

    South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol impeached – video

    Thousands celebrated outside parliament as the motion was announced.
  • Speech comes hours before the main liberal opposition Democratic party submits a new impeachment motion against Yoon

    2:22

    'Act of governance': South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol defends martial law attempt – video

  • Walkout by People Power party meant national assembly did not have 200 votes needed to begin process of forcing out president after he declared martial law this week

    1:31

    Vote to impeach South Korea's president fails after ruling party boycott – video

  • South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol gave a brief televised address to apologise for his surprise decision to declare martial law

    0:42

    South Korean president apologises for declaring martial law – video

  • Head of the People Power party claims there is a significant risk that president could order ‘extreme actions’

    1:14

    ‘Great danger’ to South Korea unless President Yoon suspended, says ruling party leader – video

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