Asia

Scam parks have become an industrial-scale business in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, where a mix of trafficked and willing labor has carried out digital scams on victims around the world.

A judge ruled for Guan Heng, who feared persecution in China after secretly filming detention facilities in Xinjiang, in a rare defeat for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

There were no reported cases of the virus outside India, but several Asian countries introduced or reinforced screening measures at airports as a precaution.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

The number of pets has exploded in China, where officials trying to increase the birth rate are facing resistance from young people.

The ruling against Kim Keon Hee comes amid a series of trials over the 2024 martial law order by her husband, ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the first U.K. leader to visit China since 2018, is hoping for an economic boost to Britain but has been criticized by China hawks at home.

The apparent weapons tests come as the North is heightening animosities with rival South Korea ahead of a meeting of its ruling Workers’ Party.

The agreement represents 25% of global GDP and one-third of global trade, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, was second in command and once a close ally of President Xi Jinping.

"I kind of lost track of space and time," the American said in an interview after climbing the famous Taipei 101 skyscraper.