I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Winter holiday season is here, and for an increasing number of Americans, that means traveling abroad. Europe and Mexico are still hot destinations, but in recent years, Japan has skyrocketed to the top. In many places, Tokyo is the
Analysts in Seoul say suspicions of Russian assistance are difficult to dismiss.
Recent analyses have documented what many in the pharmaceutical industry quietly suspected: China’s drug discovery output has achieved parity with the United States, tripling from roughly 30 new medicines in 2013 to over 400 a decade later. This is remarkable not merely as an
China appears to be experimenting with missile-armed merchant ships, probing whether commercial hulls packed with concealed firepower can deliver surprise salvos and tilt the naval balance in a Taiwan or US-China clash. This month, multiple media sources reported that China
BEIJING, Dec 29 - China's military moved army, naval, air force and rocket force units around Taiwan on Monday for its \"Just Mission 2025\" drills, aimed at testing combat readiness and delivering a \"stern warning\" against moves toward Taiwanese independence.
Selling protected songbirds is profitable business in China, home to more than 800 migratory species.
This comes as the country races to wrap up its current “five-year plan” of development.
Established in 2010 almost entirely on reclaimed land in Shenzhen, Qianhai is pitched as China’s showcase for its next phase of opening up. Yet limited multinational depth highlights the tough task of turning policy vision into global traction, say analysts.
SEOUL, Dec 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a long-range strategic cruise missile launching drill on Sunday, state media KCNA said on Monday.
MOSCOW, Dec 28 - The Kremlin said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump do not support a European-Ukrainian push for a temporary ceasefire ahead of a settlement, and that Moscow thinks Kyiv needs to make a decision on Donbas.
Some figures deemed the alliance as a pragmatic step in a fragmented political landscape.
DHAKA, Dec 28 - The student-led Bangladeshi party born out of the protest movement that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has forged an electoral alliance with Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of February's parliamentary election, stirring internal rifts.
Trump congratulated the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia "on their brilliance in coming to this rapid and very fair conclusion".
LATAKIA, Syria Dec 28 - Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria's Alawite heartland of Latakia spiralled into gunfire and other violence, according to the province's media office.
BEIJING, Dec 28 - China on Sunday congratulated Cambodia on reaching a ceasefire with Thailand after weeks of deadly border fighting, as officials from the three countries prepared to open a two-day meeting in southwestern China.
The bouts of fighting in 2025 rank among the deadliest clashes between the two countries.
Polling proceeded relatively smoothly on Dec 28, though there were reports of explosions in a few cities.
Armed groups formed in the wake of the coup and long-established ethnic armies are fighting the military across swathes of the country, displacing some 3.6 million people and creating one of Asia's worst humanitarian crises.
Officials on both sides said the day-old ceasefire was holding on Sunday, but for most areas, there has been no all-clear notice just yet.
The two suspected accomplices had been arrested in India, said Bangladeshi investigators.
Some members of the country’s dwindling opposition said they are determined to make their voices heard.
The junta is touting the vote as a return to democracy.
The boy fell as he was trying to get off the moving walkway, which does not have a handrail.
Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) rocketed when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election. Nearly a year into the second Trump administration – and 50 years since Arendt’s death in December 1975 – it seems an apposite time to revisit the
China and Russia have conducted joint bomber flights repeatedly over the years.
The government is also considering a wide range of measures, including the potential deployment of troops.
Even those still in the country were not particularly eager to take part in the vote, which international rights campaigners have dismissed as a sham.
Lee Hye-hoon said she aligns with the president's goals economic goals.
Six of the suspects also tested positive for ketamine.
Chinese consumers are barred from buying the same flavoured nicotine vapes that China exports.
The total number of teaching positions for the 2025 academic year was cut by 2,232.
Over half of the farms scheduled to close in 2026 and 2027 opted to shut down earlier than planned.
Defence Minister Khaled Nordin did not explicitly state the nature or the subject of the allegations.
Only a fraction of civil servants who were expected to move in have done so.
He also pledged investments and reforms to prevent data breaches.
The moving process began on Dec 8.
The move is likely to challenge the long-dominant traditional parties.
Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.
Most noise complaints on the capital's iHanoi app stem from pickleball, according to state media.
The new policy will be in effect starting Oct 24, 2026.
Voters in Myanmar's election say the poll is taking place in a "climate of fear", the BBC's South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head reports.
Associated noise-related issues range from unruly crowds to honking horns in overcrowded parking lots.
He was appointed coach of the Valencia Women’s B team in 2025.