South Korea’s Lee pledges warmer ties, but past tensions leave Japan ‘worried’
Published: 5:30pm, 5 Jun 2025Updated: 5:35pm, 5 Jun 2025 South Korea’s newly inaugurated President Lee Jae-myung has pledged to pursue warmer ties with Japan,...
China hails new helicopter engine as a milestone for its aviation ambitions
China has granted approval for the country’s first home-grown 1,000-kilowatt helicopter engine to begin mass production, as Beijing doubles down on its aviation ambitions...
Japan faces ‘critical’ demographic crisis as birth rate hits historic low
Japan is facing a severe demographic crisis, marked by a historic low in its birth rate alongside a rapidly ageing population. In 2024, the...
Senior biologist Lu Wei leaves US government post for China
Professor Lu Wei, a senior investigator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the latest Chinese academic to return home amid drastic...
Hong Kong should allow cinemas to host live events to survive: lawmaker
Hong Kong should relax the licensing renewal criteria for cinemas to allow them to host live performances or sports broadcasts, a lawmaker has said,...
Why Taco trade is no laughing matter for the global economy
Everyone loves a catchy acronym. In financial markets, investment analysts spend a lot of time trying to come up with initialisms that encapsulate a...
Freedom of Expression in Việt Nam – Part 2: Interpretation and Limitations
Lê Giang wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 2, 2025. While freedom of expression was once labeled a “Western...
Freedom of Expression in Việt Nam—Part 3: Free Speech in Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism
Lê Giang wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 3, 2025. The third installment in our series on freedom of...
Pakistan’s bitcoin reserve plan aims to turn energy surplus into tech investment
Published: 4:00pm, 5 Jun 2025Updated: 4:05pm, 5 Jun 2025 Following in the footsteps of US President Donald Trump’s administration, Pakistan plans to create a...