A month ahead of election, Thailand's billionaire rising political star is energizing young voters
Young people line up to take selfies with him. His hashtags are trending. And when billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit promises an end to Thailand's military "dictatorship," supporters of his Future Forward Party roar their approval. The 40-year-old heir to an auto parts fortune is a political ...
When freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda returned to Japan in October after being held captive by a militant group in Syria for over three years, 33-year-old Noriaki Imai was confounded and disappointed by the muted reception he received from the public, with many blaming the ...
U.S. regulators curb e-cigarette sales after seeing 78% surge in youth vaping
U.S. regulators Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on sales of e-cigarettes, as national data showed a 78 percent single-year surge in vaping among young people, with two-thirds using fruit and candy-flavored products. The proposed regulations announced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would allow flavored ...
Osaka police catch 14-year-old who allegedly stabbed woman with knife
A 14-year-old boy was arrested Sunday for allegedly stabbing a newspaper delivery woman in Osaka Prefecture in July, police said. "I felt frustrated. I stabbed her because I wanted to kill a person," the junior high school student was quoted by police as saying. According to ...
Why it pays off for governments to invest in sports
Sports-based investment can go a long way toward strengthening communities and enabling young people to live healthier, happier and more productive lives.
Survey ranks Japanese kids' group problem-solving skills at No. 2, behind Singapore
A 2015 survey of 52 countries and economies ranked Japan second behind Singapore in collaborative problem-solving skills among 15-year-old students, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday. The top four spots were occupied by those who participated from Asia, with Hong Kong and ...
China's Communist Party uses rap to tap youth culture, hook millennials
In his baseball cap and baggy yellow T-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie — better known by his stage name "Pissy" — is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party. His group, Tianfu Shibian, has won fans and the support of the party's ...
A student-led movement is campaigning to raise Japan's minimum wage and improve the lives of low-income workers as many continue struggling just to meet basic needs despite toiling for long hours. Some 1,500 people took to the streets of Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku district in mid-April ...
April Zhang, a 21-year-old student from Shanghai, reflects the fast-shifting attitudes of China's younger generations toward sex. She's confident to talk about a topic once taboo here and is well educated about the risks. Zhang and her young contemporaries- though far from uniform in their ...
Hong Kong's restive youth prepare for long struggle with Beijing
With China's preferred candidate selected as Hong Kong's next chief executive, another blow to the morale of the city's democracy activists, their young leaders are taking a page from Beijing's playbook and preparing for a long battle. At the leafy campus of the Chinese University ...
Turnout rate among new teen voters was a meager 45%, survey shows
Just 45 percent of newly enfranchised 18- and 19-year-olds cast ballots in Sunday's Upper House election, lower than the overall turnout, according to the internal affairs ministry. Turnout among teen voters stood at 45.45 percent, 9.25 percentage points lower than the overall rate of 54.70 ...
Exit polls show Japan's young voters wanted to go with the flow by voting for coalition
Media exit polls show that a majority of those in their 20s or younger voted for the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, Komeito, in Sunday's Upper House election. Observers said the result doesn't necessarily reflect their active support for the ruling coalition ...
