AsiaWorld How China’s Long Arm Nabbed the Dissident Lawyer Lu Siwei by 08/26/2023 by 08/26/2023 As a lawyer in China, Lu Siwei belonged to a rare and increasingly besieged group… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Raimondo Heads to China to Both Promote Trade, and Restrict It by 08/26/2023 by 08/26/2023 Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, is heading to China on Saturday with two seemingly… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Seafood Is Safe After Fukushima Discharge, But Some Won’t Eat It by 08/25/2023 by 08/25/2023 Seafood is having a bad week in East Asia, which is bad news for a… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Japan Starts Releasing Radioactive Fukushima Water by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 The News Japan began releasing into the ocean the first tranche of more than a… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Dissident Who Fled China by Jet Ski Said to Have Planned Escape for Years by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 Kwon Pyong, a Chinese critic of his country’s ruling Communist Party, already had a reputation… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Friday Briefing: U.S. Believes Prigozhin Was Killed by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 ‘It’s likely Prigozhin was killed,’ Pentagon says U.S. and other Western officials said that preliminary… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 In China the pension akin to Social Security in the United States pays about $410… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Ex-Principal of Australian Girls School Sentenced to 15 Years for Abuse by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 The former principal of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Australia was sentenced Thursday to… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Thailand’s Old Guard Keeps Its Grip After Voters Seek Change by 08/24/2023 by 08/24/2023 The election was supposed to be about change. Three months ago, Thai voters propelled the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld China Works to Expand its Sway in Africa Amid Rivalry With the U.S. by 08/23/2023 by 08/23/2023 President Xi Jinping of China, traveling to Africa for the first time in five years,… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail