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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.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
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.
National Party leader Christopher Luxon (R) greets supporters as he arrives at the National Party 2026 election night event at the Viaduct Events Center in Auckland on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2026
New Zealand preliminary vote leaves it unclear who will govern
Neither current Prime Minister Christopher Luxon nor opposition leader Chris Hipkins claimed victory in their speeches following the election.
The city center of Auckland, New Zealand
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2026
New Zealand leaders make final appeals as election remains tight
Polls show the election is too close to call as discontent around an ailing economy continues to swell.
Japan's Ritsu Doan (center) drives the ball forward against New Zealand at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 6, 2026
Japan beats New Zealand in Asian Cup warmup
Ritsu Doan scored a 71st-minute winner for Japan after New Zealand’s Ben Old cancelled out Ayase Ueda’s opener in the first half.
Christopher Luxon, New Zealand's prime minister and the leader of the National Party, speaks in Auckland on Sept. 27.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 29, 2026
New Zealand election on knife edge as Greens surge to 16%, poll shows
Support for the governing National Party and the main opposition Labour Party both dropped to 28%, according to a 1News Verian poll.
The Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha is welcomed by the Philippine Navy band upon arrival at the South Harbor for a four-day goodwill visit in metro Manila in April 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2026
New Zealand naval ships transit contested Taiwan Strait
The transits Friday by naval frigate Te Mana and oiler Aotearoa, were part of a three-month deployment in the Indo-Pacific.
South Africa's Jasper Wiese runs with the ball during a test against New Zealand at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg on August 22.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 28, 2026
Sloppy Springboks look to clean up mistakes in second test against New Zealand
South Africa has not lost two games in a row since 2022, and has not done so at?home in 11 years.
New Zealand's bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users' ages, including by utilizing existing account information, facial technology and digital identity documents.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2026
New Zealand to introduce bill banning social media for children under 16
The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages, including by utilizing existing account information and facial technology.
New Zealand's wing Will Jordan dives to score a try during a test against South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Aug 23, 2026
All Blacks in driver’s seat after beating Springboks to open four-test series
The two sides meet in the second test in Cape Town on Saturday.
New Zealand center Rieko Ioane runs to score a try during a match against the Bulls in Pretoria, South Africa, on Aug. 15.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 21, 2026
All Blacks and Springboks prepare to clash after tension-filled path to showdown
The incident-filled rivalry stretches back more than a century, and the first tour series between the countries in 30 years has quickly acquired a combative edge.
New Zealand's security agency said in a report that a Chinese organization with close ties ?to the government in Beijing had sought to install ground-based space infrastructure in the country through a local company.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 13, 2026
Chinese state-linked observatory sought New Zealand site, spy agency says
China was the only country detected to have been conducting espionage “at scale,” according to a report from New Zealand’s security agency.
A meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Fiji, on Friday. A senior official from Tuvalu called on the 18 members to collectively condemn China's missile test.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2026
Island nation Tuvalu feared tsunami from China missile test
China gave no warning on the early July missile test and did not say it would land so close to the island, said a senior Tuvalu foreign affairs official.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opens a memorial museum honoring North Korean troops killed while fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine, as top Russian defense officials look on, in Pyongyang, on April 26.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 31, 2026
North Korea proves Europe and Indo-Pacific are connected
The assumption that Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security could be treated separately — each requiring distinct international organizations and strategies — no longer holds true.
The Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama. The U.S. said Thursday it will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 24, 2026
Asian allies push back against Trump’s forced-labor tariffs
The latest duties aim to restore U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist regime after his earlier levies were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his counterparts in the "Quad" hold a joint news conference after attending the group's foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi on May 26.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2026
A new ‘Quad’ for an ever more complex Indo-Pacific?
The Indo-Pacific does not simply need another acronym. In practice, it needs stronger coordination among trusted partners.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Viaduct Events Center in Auckland on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 12, 2026
Modi courts Indo-Pacific partners as China and U.S. reshape region
Modi has stepped up engagement across the Indo-Pacific, signing a flurry of agreements and underscoring New Delhi’s ambition to play a bigger role in the region.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is welcomed by New Zealand leader Christopher Luxon at Government House in Auckland on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 11, 2026
New Zealand and India form ‘strategic partnership’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit comes shortly after China test-fired a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, stirring unease in the region.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on July 2. AFP-JIJI
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 8, 2026
Time for middle powers to sustain ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’
The Japan-India summit’s ambitious agenda demonstrated a willingness to move beyond declarations toward practical cooperation on economic security.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will subscribe to new capital and have a director on New Zealand-based infrastructure investor Morrison’s board, the two firms said in a statement Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 8, 2026
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust inks $2 billion partnership with Morrison
The new strategic partnership aims to provide Japanese customers access to fresh investment opportunities.
New Zealand welcomed 307,940 Chinese visitors in the 12 months through April, up 24% from the year-earlier period, according to latest Statistics New Zealand data.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 25, 2026
Chinese tourists flock to New Zealand under visa-waiver trial
China was New Zealand’s second-largest source of tourists before the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has yet to return to those levels.
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.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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