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Asia Pacific

1 July 2024

  • Elimination game … Blue Lock the Movie

    Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi review – football anime gets the battle royale treatment

    From Terminator-eyed strikers to flame-wreathed shots on goal, no bombast is too much in this feature-length extrapolation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro’s popular series
  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

    Some 68,000 people are expected to die alone and unnoticed in Japan this year, police say, as the population continues to age
  • A space rocket launch pad in China

    Chinese space rocket crashes in flames after accidental launch

    Company Space Pioneer says first stage of its Tianlong-3 launched during test after ‘structural failure’ and crashed in hills near city of Gongyi

29 June 2024

  • The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, boards the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier during the trilateral ‘Freedom Edge’ military exercise.

    North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’

    Pyongyang calls ‘Freedom Edge’ drills involving fighter jets and nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier ‘provocative’

28 June 2024

  • A person passing an illuminated sign on a wall reading: 'IQOS - This changes everything'

    Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers

    Leaked documents from Philip Morris reveal ‘secret’ strategy to market its heated tobacco product IQOS

27 June 2024

  • Li Shangfu in military uniform, sitting at a table at an event

    Chinese Communist party expels two ex-defence ministers for corruption

  • People stand in a line outside the High Court in London

    NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules

  • South Korean soldiers patrol near a barbed wire fence along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea.

    ‘The scariest place on earth’: inside the DMZ as tensions between North and South Korea rise

  • Justina Kitchen kite foiling in France

    Hook knife and a crash helmet: the New Zealand hopeful preparing for kite foiling’s Olympic debut

26 June 2024

  • A large illuminated display reading 'Shein' with clothes rails in the background

    Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation

  • A student protester near Tiananmen Square in 1989.

    At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong review – changing state

  • Incheon airport in Seoul

    Rubbish-filled North Korea balloons prompt closure of Seoul airport

  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    Project Syndicate economists
    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel

25 June 2024

  • A sign in tropical jungle that reads in English: "This is a protected area. Entry is barred by law"

    The age of extinction
    Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

  • A container carrying the world’s first samples from the far side of the moon.

    China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returns world’s first samples from far side of the moon

24 June 2024

  • An aerial view of collapsed buildings

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Southern China hit by floods as north suffers from drought

    Heavy rainfall in Guangdong causes flooding, landslides and mudslides, while northern China gripped by heatwave
  • Rock formations in Skazka Canyon, Kyrgyzstan

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

    GeoGPT developed in Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south
  • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA-EFE

    The Audio Long Read
    Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison – podcast

    My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu

23 June 2024

  • white man wearing black suit and striped red tie with US flag in the background

    Ex-Trump security adviser backtracks on proposal to send all Marines to Asia

  • Shot of Putin at the wheel and Kim in the front passenger seat of a large car, driving along, both smiling

    ‘A return to the cold war’: Putin and Kim have joined forces as global delinquents

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