China’s residential property prices kept falling this year as a surge in court-ordered auction homes flooded the market with steep discounts, deepening buyer wariness and stalling any signs of recovery...
Israeli forces raided homes in the town of al-Rafid, in Syria’s Quneitra countryside on August 15, and the operation drew almost no attention beyond Syria itself. Such raids have become...
Mahjong is having a global moment. From designer tile sets and “mahjong parties” to growing numbers of clubs and classes, the centuries-old Chinese tile game is becoming trendy once again....
North Korean paramount leader Kim Jong-un has demonstrated he can make bold policy decisions. In 2013 he sought to frighten his senior officials into obedience by ordering the execution of...
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi’s visit to India on Thursday, August 20, 2026, could well mark the beginning of a structural transition in Asian security architecture, shifting major bilateral relationships...
For months, Bangladesh and India had been attempting that favorite diplomatic maneuver, the “reset,” a word suggesting that international relations, like an obstinate Wi-Fi router, can be repaired by switching...
NEW YORK – As global bond yields spike amid the latest Middle East tremors, Japan is at the epicenter. Surging US Treasury rates are getting most of the attention –...
Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rule remains as ultra-extremist as ever. Acting in the name of a self-centered version of Islam, the group has made...
Just days after threatening to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a map on his Truth Social platform with that label over the crucial...
For nearly eight decades, East Asia’s security architecture rested on a predictable premise: Japan would remain a strictly defensive fortress, constrained by Article 9 of its 1947 constitution and its...
