Society

Yagi left a trail of destruction from Manila to Mandalay.

572 children have been rescued from homes linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB) amid allegations of abuse that shocked and enraged the nation.

Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from New Zealand, was abducted by rebels from a remote airport in February 2023.

India's attempts to regulate Western social platforms have received little attention. That may change soon amid court cases that threaten to ban Wikipedia.

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse.

The draft legislation seeks to curb recreational use of cannabis products, but stops short of relisting the plant as a narcotic.

Japan is experiencing a shortage of the crucial staple, with an inelastic supply likely being the primary cause.

For the second time in three months, a knife-wielding man attacked Japanese schoolchildren in China.

The country’s civil war has been accompanied by the growing prevalence of non-consensual pornography and other forms of cyber-attacks on women.

Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings is accused of running a network of care homes where children were allegedly subject to systematic abuse.

A private vocational school in Qinghai has been forced to close for unspecified violations. Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education.

Despite tensions, the region has been free of state conflict for decades, but a realignment of the security architecture puts that hard-won peace at risk.