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Asia Pacific

7 August 2024

  • Former leader of the Move Forward Party and former prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat at the party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand

    Thailand facing political upheaval as court set to rule on fate of progressive Move Forward party

    Former leader Pita Limjaroenrat could be banned from politics, while prime minister Srettha Thavisin is facing the same court next week over a cabinet appointment
  • Australian foreign minister Penny Wong and US secretary of state Antony Blinken at a press conference in Maryland after the annual Ausmin talks.

    US plans more frequent bomber deployments to Australia amid China’s ‘escalatory behaviour’

    Australia-US talks also turn to Middle East conflict as representatives ramp up calls for Gaza ceasefire
  • Celeste Liddle

    New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

    Celeste Liddle
    Every attack on treaty, land rights, language, culture and self-determination for Māori will give Australia’s politicians more justification for their actions, or lack thereof

6 August 2024

  • A trader works on the trading floor of the New York stock exchange on 5 August 2024

    Global markets partly recover but analysts fear ‘we’re not out of woods’

  • A Homo floresiensis skull

    ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

  • JAPAN-ECONOMY-STOCKS<br>An electronic quotation board displays share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on August 6, 2024. Tokyo stocks bounced back in early trade on August 6 following a historic selloff on worries over the US economy and a stronger yen. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

    Japanese stocks soar after massive sell-off shook global markets

  • Rebels from West Papua National Liberation Army

    Papua separatists kill helicopter pilot from New Zealand, say police

5 August 2024

  • a man rubs his temples

    Shares in New York and London tumble on fears of US recession

    FTSE 100 on track for its lowest close since April and Japan’s Nikkei suffers biggest fall since crash of 1987
  • Carlos Yulo of the Philippines after winning his second gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics

    Mac and cheese for life! Philippines’ heartfelt gifts to Carlos Yulo after double Olympic gold

    Pledges of pesos, property and pasta as ‘Caloy’ makes history for his country with floor exercise and vault victories in artistic gymnastics
  • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

    The abbot of a temple in the Thai capital had already built up a recycling facility, but now he has a floating ally in his struggle to clean up the Chao Praya River

4 August 2024

  • Ruben Balagtas, in a tank top, shorts and flipflops, leans against the concrete post of metal gates on which are hung two signs in support of "Mayor Alice Guo", with houses and trees behind him

    Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor

    Investigation is ongoing into the identity of Alice Guo and her links to a compound housing human trafficking victims and offshore gaming operations

2 August 2024

  • Metal darts used in wire catapults in attacks in East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

    Slingshots and metal darts see tribal violence ‘horrors’ worsen in Papua New Guinea

  • A trader works on the floor of the New York stock exchange

    Fear of US recession rattles global markets as tech shares fall

  • This aerial photo taken on July 28, 2024 shows a flood-affected village following heavy rains caused by Typhoon Gaemi in Zixing, in central China's Hunan province

    China sees highest number of significant floods since records began

  • A New Caledonia cagou

    Much cagou about something: New Caledonia’s favourite bird thriving after conservation push

1 August 2024

  • Silhouette of male hand typing on laptop keyboard at night

    Police break up largest illegal pornography ring in Taiwan’s history

    Hundreds involved in Chuangyi Sifang, an online platform that shared child sexual abuse images, have been arrested
  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, January 2024<br>PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 19: Joan Chen of 'Didi' is photographed for Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2024 at the LA Times Studio at Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire in Park City, Utah. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST READ: Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA. (Photo by Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA by Getty Images)

    The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63

    Thirty-seven years after her Hollywood breakthrough in The Last Emperor, Chen is back in new drama Dìdi. She discusses her roots in China, objectification and the protective power of creativity
  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

    Japanese government confirms it will allow whalers to catch and kill up to 59 fin whales, a species conservationists consider vulnerable

July 2024

  • Japanese rice inventories have fallen to the lowest levels since 1999.

    Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields

  • Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, delivers a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in Taipei, on Tuesday

    China used ‘shocking’ bullying tactics ahead of Taiwan Ipac meeting, organiser says

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