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While there are records which exist to be broken – Olympic ones, for example -these monthly temperature extremes are not…

The South Korean writer-director won an Emmy and the attention of the world with his dystopian action drama. As Netflix…

Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic maritime choke point with Iran situated at the top with Qeshm…

Promised a path to prosperity through hard work and education, China’s working class youths are hitting immovable ceilings. Source link

Any disruption to traffic in the Strait of Hormuz would have significant economic effects, especially for Asian nations dependent on…

With support from the United Nations, the electricity grid on the central islands of Java, Madura, and Bali – home…

Visitors can explore the UN’s 80-year history of advancing peace, human rights, sustainable development and climate action and see how…

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Fighting has the potential to disrupt oil markets, but a move by Iran to cut off supply would chiefly hurt…

At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of…

A video message by Campbell Wilson, Air India’s chief executive, closely resembled what the head of American Airlines said after…

Suga is the last member of the wildly popular band to complete his national service. After more than two years…

With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on…

Tesla has inked its first deal to build a grid-scale battery power plant in China amid a strained trading relationship…

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall reported strong sales in categories eligible for government subsidies.Serene Lee | Sopa Images…

Women are coerced into needless hysterectomies and girls are pushed into child marriages. After a court ruling and a Times…

Bulldozer scoop soil containing various rare earth to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Lianyungang, east…

The crash of an Air India flight shows how the country’s ambitions of rapid growth are often superimposed on urban…

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building in Beijing, China, on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChina kept its…

A market in Tokyo in June 2023.Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty ImagesJapan’s core inflation rate climbed to 3.7% in May,…

A top general, he was appointed prime minister in 1992, a short-lived tenure that immediately incited the Black May uprising…

To tell the story of a demographic shift in Southeast Asia, one reporter visited a swimming complex where women in…

The protests and police shooting on Tuesday came nearly a year after demonstrations against President William Ruto of Kenya convulsed…