Taiwan’s pool of military conscripts for 2022 will be the smallest in 10 years, as the island faces a population crisis owing to falling birth rates. Based on estimates from government...
SINGAPORE — Earlier in May this year, Tesla chief executive and billionaire Elon Musk tweeted a warning that Japan will “cease to exist” unless it deals with its declining birth rate....
SINGAPORE — Myanmar’s junta leader has been excluded from a regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in November, host Cambodia acknowledged on October 5, in efforts to diplomatically spurn...
SINGAPORE — Pharmaceutical giant MSD (known as Merck & Co. in the United States and Canada) unveiled a new packaging facility and broke ground for a new manufacturing plant in Singapore...
SINGAPORE — Amid escalating friction between Japan and China — as well as deteriorating public sentiment in Japan toward its larger neighbor — Japanese lawmakers are increasingly cautious about being regarded...
SINGAPORE — The pro-Beijing government of Hong Kong has denied imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai the right to be represented by a British lawyer at his impending national security trial. Lai...
SINGAPORE — On Oct. 4, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, leading Tokyo to turn on its missile alert system and caution...
SINGAPORE — Previously, unmarried women in India were permitted to kill their unborn children only up to 20 weeks gestation; the new law "allows" both single and married women to do...
SINGAPORE — Social-media companies such as Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter would face increased accountability to Singaporean users as the country seeks to unveil a series of online safety measures such as...
SINGAPORE — Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea on Thursday as the final stop on her four-day trip to Asia. During her...
SINGAPORE — On September 29, ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced by the incumbent junta to prison for three years for violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act. This latest sentencing...
SINGAPORE — Although Singapore is being pressured to do away with the death penalty for certain crimes, its deterrence of crime is confirmed by officials. ...
SINGAPORE — On Sept. 26, Japan announced new sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, and Japanese and American leaders denounced China's aggression toward Taiwan. ...
SINGAPORE — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on September 23 in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, amid...
SINGAPORE — South Korea regards recent U.S. rules that prioritize American-made electric vehicles and batteries as a “betrayal,” a senior official in Seoul, who requested not to be identified, revealed in...