November 03, 2025

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A South Korean protester holds a placard showing a caricature of U.S. President Donald Trump depicted as a thief during a rally ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Nov 1, 2025

Asia-Pacific leaders call for shared trade benefits as APEC summit wraps up

U.S. President Donald Trump did not attend the event, but a joint declaration appeared to reflect U.S. views, and did not mention multilateralism or the World Trade Organization.

Newly elected opposition Kuomintang leader Cheng Li-wun delivers her speech during a party congress in Taipei on Saturday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Nov 1, 2025

Taiwan's new opposition leader takes over, warning against risk of China war

The position of the new leader of the democratic island's biggest opposition party could derail the government's spending plans.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Nov 1, 2025

Xi to hold talks with Lee on first South Korea visit in 11 years

Chinese leader Xi Jinping was set to meet his new South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung, as both leaders work to rebuild ties between their two countries.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaves after attending a bilateral meeting between Malaysia and the United States in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Nov 1, 2025

Pentagon chief seeks to boost U.S. ties with flurry of talks in Asia

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held talks on Friday with counterparts from China and India, among a series of face-to-face meetings on the sidelines of a regional summit.

Visitors line up outside the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou, China, on Oct. 23. Chinese President Xi Jinping draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a 19th-century official whose defiance of Britain in a confrontation over trade led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Oct 30, 2025

How the 19th-century opium war shapes Xi’s trade clash with Trump

By Andrew Higgins

The showdown between China and the West then began, much as today’s did, with mounting Western anger over a huge Chinese trade surplus.

A sign hangs above desks used by the Burmese-language service in the offices of Radio Free Asia, following the termination of funding for the station, which broadcast in nine Asian languages, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies, in Washington on March 15.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Oct 30, 2025

Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and U.S. shutdown

By Shaun TANDON

Long a thorn in Beijing's side, RFA's closure comes just as the U.S. president meets his Chinese counterpart on an Asia trip seeking better relations.

Myanmar’s retired General Tin Aung San, left, a candidate for the army-backed ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, attends a campaign kick-off event in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Tuesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Oct 30, 2025

Myanmar arrests three artists for ‘disrupting election’

Rights monitors say the new speech laws oppress dissent ahead of the junta-organized election.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.

The second life of Japan's net cafes

By Alex K.T. Martin

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