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Abdul Hafeez Khoso, one of 39 Pakistani farmers pursuing a climate lawsuit against German firms, chants "polluters have to pay" with schoolchildren during an awareness event in Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Pakistani farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
The litigation argues the firms’ emissions contributed to climate change and turbo-charged rain that wiped out farmers’ crops, livestock and homes.
This aerial photo taken on Nov. 4 shows the newly restored West Mebon temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia.
WORLD / Society
Macron’s Angkor visit highlights France’s custodial role
By Sebastien Duval
Former colonial power France plays a pivotal role in conservation projects in Cambodia.
Activists hold pictures depicting Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka during a protest against their policies in Jakarta on Oct. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Fate of Indonesia’s vice president hangs in the balance as lawmakers mull probe
The consideration comes amid a widening political rift between the vice president’s influential father and President Prabowo Subianto.
ASIA PACIFIC
Taiwan says China is conducting ‘area denial’ drills in Western Pacific
By Ben Blanchard
ASIA PACIFIC
China’s top spy agency recruited woman who targeted Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
By Julian E. Barnes, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur and Maggie Haberman
ASIA PACIFIC
Thailand bans textbook on national security grounds
By Napat Kongsawad
ASIA PACIFIC
China keeps faith in Trump even as ‘total defeat’ adds new risks

Politics

New Zealand Prime Minister and National Party leader Christopher Luxon speaks to members of the media at the party's headquarters in Auckland on Sunday.
Politics
New Zealand’s Luxon on course for second term, but weaker hand in coalition
Luxon’s National Party could lose control of key government ministries to right-wing coalition partners.
Politics
Hasina seeks new passport in clearest sign of Bangladesh return
By Krishna N. Das
Politics
Trump-Xi-Putin trilateral summit moves closer to reality
By Jesse Johnson
Politics
Can’t cook or shower: Indonesians take aim at data centers
Politics
New Zealand preliminary vote leaves it unclear who will govern
Politics / FOCUS
Xi taps military ‘hatchet man’ to rebuild China’s army command
Politics
Prabowo wiretap spills top Indonesia rivalry into public
By Chandra Asmara and Claire Jiao

Crime & Legal

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for a hearing on Oct. 14. Najib has paid a $12 million fine, allowing him to serve the rest of his jail sentence under house arrest, his party said Friday.
Crime & Legal
Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib pays fine, meeting condition for house arrest
By Isabelle Leong
Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim granted Najib a conditional pardon in September.
Crime & Legal
Top U.N. court to rule on Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide case
By Richard CARTER
Crime & Legal
How purchases of sanctioned Iranian jet fuel were disguised by Myanmar
Crime & Legal
Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
Crime & Legal
Cambodia to target scam ‘masterminds’ as critics question crackdown’s effectiveness
By Poppy McPherson
Crime & Legal
India rape cases turn focus back onto women’s safety
By Uzmi ATHAR
Crime & Legal
Cambodia to target casinos in next phase of anti-scam sweep
By Philip J. Heijmans

Society

Laborers fill sacks with soybeans at a grain market in the district of Jalna, in India's western state of Maharashtra, on Oct. 23.
Society
India faces prolonged food inflation as weak monsoon threatens winter crops
Lower crop yields could further stoke food inflation, with some prices already climbing and annual retail food inflation hitting 7.74% in September.
Society
Hanoi’s oldest luxury hotel tested by influx of rivals amid tourism surge
By Francesca Stevens and Cao Ban
Society
India warms to French cooking as economic growth fuels fine-dining boom
By Julie Fraysse
Society
Mobile clinics battle Mongolia’s childhood dental ‘disaster’
By Mungunsor Purevsuren
Society
South Korea soccer players’ boasts spark rethink of military service exemptions
Society
OpenAI apologizes for Australia hack amid pushback on data center project
Society
Australian opposition vows ‘biggest cut to immigration’ in country’s history

Science & Health

People exercise in a garden amid smog as air pollution levels spike in New Delhi on Monday.
Science & Health
‘Burning’: life under the world’s dirtiest skies
By Aishwarya KUMAR
Loni, one of five areas in the Delhi metropolitan region, features among the world’s most polluted in an annual list by Swiss monitoring firm IQAir.
Science & Health
Fire pollution killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September, report says
By Mari?tte le Roux
Science & Health
Indonesia rain set to ease toxic haze in Singapore and Malaysia
By Mary Hui, Anuradha Raghu and Chandra Asmara
Science & Health
Borneo struggles to breathe as wildfires fill the air with toxic smog
Science & Health
Bangladesh battle against measles a ‘real warning’ to other nations
By Ruma Paul, Jennifer Rigby and Sam Jahan
Science & Health
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
By Cindy Wang
Science & Health
Indonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires to protected forest
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Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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