Hackers-for-profit are assisting the Chinese government.
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Beijing’s cyber operations are largely conducted in the shadows. But a recent leak has shed light on how the state is working with private companies to target online activism.
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Formerly one of the world’s largest markets for tiger bone, new research sheds light on the current situation in South Korea.
Philippine troops watch as a missile hits a target during a live-fire joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
Kanpai! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is hoping the U.S.-Japan relationship doesn’t lose its fizz.
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Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
South Korea’s pesident faces political woes.
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The South Korean leader seeks to strengthen ties with the US and Japan. But he might be hamstrung by domestic concerns.
Hong Kong is increasingly becoming a security state.
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In the space of two decades, Hong Kong’s liberal constitutional order has been transformed into a security regime that grants citizens few civil liberties
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With the pressure of China’s “three-child policy”, many women are motivated to achieve work-life harmony by merging the identities of motherhood and business ownership.
South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Fumio Kishida of Japan.
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Critics of the South Korean leader accuse him of eroding democracy at home while embracing a historic enemy on the international stage.
Made it, Mao! Top of the World?
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Most Americans see China as the biggest threat to the US. But away from headline economic figures, China has a slew of challenges.
Lionel Messi continues to face anger from Chinese fans for missing a game in Hong Kong.
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Messi will not start a war in China, but this is not to say that football lacks political relevance.
Like at this pro-PTI protest, the smoke has yet to clear following Pakistan’s election.
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The PTI, the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, won the most seats of any one party – but fell short of reaching the threshold for a majority government.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a screen at the Seoul Railway Station on Aug. 24, 2023.
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Amid signs of growing domestic disquiet over his repressive regime, North Korea’s leader is trying to deflect scrutiny by upping war rhetoric.
Members of the rebel Ta'ang National Liberation Army standing guard in Shan state, Myanmar.
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Beijing is losing patience with Myanmar’s military, as well as its influence with resistance groups.
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A new law has been introduced that officially brings dog meat to an end as a commodity in South Korea.
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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has retained government, but it wasn’t a straightforward race. The campaign revealed much about Taiwan’s changing politics.
Posters of presidential candidate William Lai and his running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim.
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A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
A Lotus Sutra scroll praising the manifold mercies of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.
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For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
To address barriers that racialized women with non-native accents experience in the Canadian workplace, we need to understand what kinds of bias they face.
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Recent research explores how women with non-native English accents — specifically Mandarin — fare in the Canadian job market.
A gilded statue of the Buddha at Wat Phanan Choeng Temple in Thailand.
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Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them.
Indian visitors look at a painting depicting the Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh.
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Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.