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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina still enjoys support among sections of the population.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
Hasina seeks new passport in clearest sign of Bangladesh return
The request marks the clearest step by ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to act on her plan to return to Bangladesh in December.
Pakistani (left) and Indian border security soldiers take part in the now-famous daily parade at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the primary international land route between the two nations. The elaborate ceremony has been held since 1959.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
The new India-Pakistan ‘cold war’
India will return to the negotiating table only after Pakistan dismantles, comprehensively and verifiably, its state-supported terrorist networks.
A model of LNG storage tanks at the China National Offshore Oil Corporation booth at an international trade fair in Beijing in September 2025
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2026
The LNG boom is losing its biggest Asian bet
Stung by high costs and supply uncertainty, Asian governments are busy throwing those forecasts on the bonfire.
A woman displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, poses for a photograph on the sludge that buried her home in Betrawati, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, on Sept. 9.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 2, 2026
Nepal’s grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead
At Nepal’s two forensic laboratories, experts are working to profile samples and build a database on a scale they have never handled before.
A vendor sells bananas at a market in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 23, 2026
Asia to face sustained inflation pressure into 2027, ADB warns
Wars in Europe and the Middle East and a severe El Nino are amplifying price pressures across the continent.
Flash flood survivors gather to receive utility aid from a temporary relief camp at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 4, 2026
Nepal floods ruin merchants and traders ahead of crucial festival season
The catastrophe struck just ahead of the crucial September-to-November Hindu festival season, when celebrations typically drive a surge in spending.
Rescue team members work to enter the tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station as they search for survivors and retrieve bodies in Rasuwa, Nepal, on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 4, 2026
How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal’s flood rescue efforts
Authorities hope some of the roughly 900 people reported missing at six hydropower plants may have escaped the deluge because they worked in or fled into tunnels.
A member of the security forces and his sniffer dog search for survivors following flash floods at Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 28, 2026
Nepal says dam burst in Tibet, warns rescuers to head to safety
The U.S. Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy debris.
A survivor is transported to a safer place in heavy machinery following flash flood and mudslide at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 28, 2026
Swallowed by silt: Survivors recount Nepal flood horror
A tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through villages and towns along Nepal’s Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers on Wednesday, with hundreds of bodies recovered so far.
A mud-covered building following a flash flood in Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district, on Wednesday
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 28, 2026
Glacier collapse behind Nepal flood highlights region’s climate risk
Similar events are becoming more frequent as global warming accelerates the ongoing thaw in the Himalayas.
This handout satellite image released by Planet Labs shows an aerial view of Kolpurtar in Nepal's Nuwakot District on Aug. 12. Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find more than 1,000 people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that swept away entire villages.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 27, 2026
Glacier collapse and ice avalanche likely fueled deadly Nepal flash flood
Researchers have long sounded alarm bells on the vulnerability of the so-called Third Pole to warming temperatures, and about the rising potential for disasters.
Residents look at buildings submerged by mud following flash floods and a landslide disaster in Trishuli Bazar, in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 27, 2026
The foreigners missing in Nepal’s flash floods
Official figures suggested at least 341 foreigners were among the missing after devastating floods that have killed at least 160 people.
A Cockroach Janta Party supporter sits at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 23, during the protest to demand the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET exam irregularities.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2026
Indian students face online harassment weeks after protests end
Online harassment has long been a complaint among critics of Modi’s government, particularly women and political activists, who frequently report threats and abuse on social media.
A policeman stands guard as women wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during the second phase of elections for the local legislative assembly in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 5, 2026
Deadly protests overshadow Pakistan’s elections in Kashmir
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces have underscored the region’s fragile security situation.
An employee works on a rail component inside a manufacturing unit of Titagarh Rail Systems in Uttarpara, India, in June last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2026
India plans $5 billion border rail upgrade in strategic push
The spending — set to unfold over the next 18 to 24 months — will help build new tracks, platforms and strengthen networks.
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters wave national flags a day after the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Mumbai on Sunday, as protests over alleged NEET exam irregularities were called off.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 31, 2026
India’s Instagram-loving ‘Cockroaches’ outwit Modi online
Indian authorities have struggled to keep pace with the protest movement, which flooded Instagram with posts and reels, coordinating demonstrations and spreading viral content.
A police officer guards a street following the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Baruipur, India, earlier this month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2026
Brutal killing of 11-year-old highlights unrelenting sexual violence in India
The girl was kidnapped, raped, bundled into a sack and thrown into a pond by a gang of men while still alive, according to a local investigating police officer.
Pedestrians pass the nuclear plant that sits on the banks of the Padma river in western Bangladesh.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 12, 2026
A nuclear debut in Bangladesh tests developing world’s atomic shift
The project is an audacious bet that nuclear power can meet the needs of an industrializing economy without breaking the bank — other developing nations will be watching closely.
Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul in the Afghan capital on Aug. 15, 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2026
The toll on Afghanistan of five years of Taliban rule
Afghans are asking the world: How long and to what extent must the Taliban continue internal repression and support for terrorism before the world recognizes the threat?
India’s central bank has often been seen intervening just before onshore open to ease pressure on the rupee.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2026
Asia’s currency fight moves offshore as central banks push back
Policymakers have ramped up efforts to curb offshore forex speculation as high oil prices, foreign fund exodus and a strong dollar pressure regional currencies.
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.

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