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25-05-2017 01:54

Opinion // WeChat starts conversation with blocked foreign sites (Zara Hoffman)

24-05-2017 18:07

Taiwan's top court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, a landmark decision that paves the way for the island to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex unions. (Liu Hsiu Wen and Agence France-Presse)

24-05-2017 17:57

Timor-Leste's "unity" government has made notable gains after decades of foreign occupation and civil strife. But can the center hold with new parliamentary polls on the horizon? (David Hutt)

24-05-2017 17:36

Global trade is facing challenging times. Trade has long proven to be an engine for growth and development in East Asia and the Pacific, but now many are arguing that this is in need of repair. (Roberto Azevêdo)

24-05-2017 16:54

Opinion // What Nato needs from Trump (Michael Mandelbaum)

24-05-2017 16:40

A trio of films competing for honors at the Cannes film festival mark the reemergence of South Korea as an international filmmaking force more than a decade after Park Chan-wook's Oldboy won the coveted Grand Prix. (Jung Ha-won)

24-05-2017 14:25

The world's film studios are lining up for a slice of the Chinese market, but screening quotas and a spending clampdown are making it more difficult than it seems. (Katy Lee)

24-05-2017 13:46

A senior official at China's banking regulator is being investigated for suspected disciplinary violations, the country's top anti-graft body said, broadening the anti-corruption drive to include more financial supervisors. (Reuters)

24-05-2017 13:32

Asia’s mixed martial arts superstar Angela Lee has promised fans a swift end to her world atomweight title defense against her Brazilian challenger in Singapore on Friday. (Pedro Chan)

24-05-2017 13:14

The favorable impressions that Chinese and Americans have toward each other’s country have declined in the past five years and a hefty percentage of Chinese are now less trusting of the US, says a survey released by a national organization of prominent Chinese Americans. (Doug Tsuruoka)

24-05-2017 12:46

China rejects Moody's reason for first rating cut since 1989. (Asia Times and agencies)

24-05-2017 11:42

Opinion // Not quite dead: how Trump-spurned TPP could be resuscitated (Xuan Loc Doan)

24-05-2017 09:00

Britain prepared to deploy soldiers at key sites on Wednesday, having raised its terror threat level to maximum after a suicide bomber killed 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester. (Agence France-Presse)

24-05-2017 08:26

The man responsible for bombing a packed pop concert in Manchester, killing 22 people, is believed to be a British-born man of Libyan descent. (Agence France-Presse)

24-05-2017 08:18

Hong Kong's anti-graft agency on Tuesday arrested 21 government contractors on suspicion of falsifying test results for the strength of concrete used in a bridge across the Pearl River estuary to southern mainland China. (Reuters)

24-05-2017 06:50

One issue largely overlooked in North Korea's missile program is that satellites are among methods used to guide such weapons to their targets. Pyongyang doesn't have a satellite navigation network, raising speculation that if it is using such a guidance system then is it tapping into China's? (Peter J. Brown)

23-05-2017 23:56

Opinion // Why CIA losses will cripple spy operations in China (Michael Brady)

23-05-2017 21:38

Opinion // The dark side of China’s sharing economy (Alberto Sperindio, Xi'an Jiaotong University)

23-05-2017 21:27

South Korea fires at ‘flying object’ crossing DMZ from North

23-05-2017 19:34

M2 is so yesterday's news... it pays to keep a closer eye on TSF to get a clearer sense of which way the PBOC is steering China's monetary policy supertanker. (Steve Wang)

23-05-2017 19:25

Discrepancies in Indonesian official foreign direct investment statistics underscore the confusion surrounding the growing role and activities of Chinese companies in the country. (Tao Kong and Pierre van der Eng)

23-05-2017 18:42

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte claims Chinese leader Xi Jinping threatened war during recent private discussions in Beijing on the South China Sea (Richard Javad Heydarian)

23-05-2017 18:12

Children among 22 killed in Manchester suicide bombing. Screaming fans, many teenagers, fled in panic after blast at Ariana Grande gig. Police said attacker believed to have died in explosion. (Agencies)

23-05-2017 17:59

A rift at the top of Indonesian President Joko Widodo's government, including over issues of religion, signals potentially destabilizing politicking as the country heads towards pivotal polls. (John McBeth)

23-05-2017 17:26

Opinion // Moscow’s housing estates erupt (Nina L Khrushcheva)

23-05-2017 16:40

A new documentary tells the touching tale of the nation's most celebrated living dissident poet Maung Aung Pwint and his years of persecution under the military junta. (Briony Lin)

23-05-2017 16:00

China might be the biggest player in global fishing, but Western countries are also in deep water when it comes to industry rights abuses and environmental damage. (Siddharth Chakravarty)

23-05-2017 15:37

While other parts of Vietnam have seen severe environmental degradation at the hands of tourism development, the opposite has been the case at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, which is home to the world's largest cave. (Michael Tatarski)

23-05-2017 14:52

Asian millennials all adrift when it comes to corruption, with higher numbers of young professionals happy to bribe but aghast at the idea of working for a scandal-tainted company, EY survey finds. (Johan Nylander)

23-05-2017 14:00

The nationwide election in June-July 2017 will be a major measure of the political impact of the Papua new Guinea government’s critics, and the sustainability of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s bankrolling tactics. (Bill Standish)

the brief

May 21,2017, 7:13

Russia’s cold war habit

By Vladislav Inozemtsev

Sacked. A man carries sacks from a razed house in a hutong. Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter

May 08,2017, 8:34

Chinese migrant workers feel targeted in ancient hutong clean-up

By Muyu Xu and Ryan Woo

A hand-painted folk portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger advertising a Ho Chi Minh City bodybuilding gym, photographed in 2011. Photo: Cristina Nualart

Apr 22,2017, 11:35

Vietnam’s disappearing vintage signs are pop culture remnants

By Cristina Nualart

Apr 18,2017, 11:06

Blood libels in Europe, Asia, Africa and recently the US

By Reuven Brenner

A lot of organizations will be funded for celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover. Photo: hkcacelebration.hk

Apr 10,2017, 5:57

Where the money is going for the Hong Kong handover’s 20th anniversary

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Mar 27,2017, 3:25

Hong Kong author champions wisdom of the Chinese almanac

Mar 23,2017, 8:05

Are America and China destined for war?

By Harry J Kazianis

Screen grab of Vanished Archives showing a pro-Beijing newspaper headline mobilizing people to take part in the riot. Photo: Youtube/ Vanished Archives

Mar 09,2017, 3:03

HKIFF rejected controversial film for high-pitched narrators

One of the Lai Chi Vun shipyards. The areas manufactured the last sailship more than a decade ago. Photo: facebook/@memorymacau

Mar 08,2017, 5:27

Macau razes shipyard paving way for development

By Asia Times staff

Mar 04,2017, 3:28

Hindu nationalist violence attributed to Italian ideologue

By Kadayam Subramanian

One of the wreck sites of HMAS Perth (D29) that is under survey. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Mar 04,2017

Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?

By Natali Pearson

About 100 "Star Wars" stormtroopers line up at the museum entrance. Photo: Asia Times

Mar 03,2017, 7:03

Do you remember what your favorite toy was? Maybe it’s here

By Asia Times staff

Deng Guoyuan_Noah’s Garden II at Singapore Biennale 2016 Photo: Singapore Art Museum

Feb 23,2017

Reflections on identity and history at Singapore Biennale

By Low Koon Yen and Poo Yee Kai

Photo of a banquet hall decorated with dragons and phoenixes at the Diamond Restaurant in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Photo: Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Feb 20,2017, 2:43

Commoners’ wedding parties in Hong Kong

By Benny Kung and Liu Hsiu Wen

Comprehensive illustrated record of the grand wedding of Zaitian (Emperor Guangxu). Guangxu period (1875-1908). Painted by Qingkuan et al. Collection of The Palace Museum. Photo: Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Feb 20,2017, 1:57

Royal wedding with Chinese characteristics

By Benny Kung and Liu Hsiu Wen

The Gurkhas provided security to Hong Kong for almost 50 years but few today want to remember their role. Photo: Tim I Gurung

Feb 18,2017, 3:48

Why Hong Kong should not wash its hands of Gurkha history

By Tim I Gurung

A man decorates a Christmas tree at the St. John Cathedral Church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Jan 13,2017, 10:34

Breathing without living: the plight of Christians in Pakistan

The September 18 History Museum in Shenyang province. Photo by Chen Juda

Jan 10,2017, 6:17

China adds six years to Sino-Japanese war in history books

Dec 24,2016, 11:09

Japan’s road to United Nations membership, 1956

By John J. Metzler

Fish lanterns at 160 Queen's Road West. Photo: William Furniss

Dec 14,2016

Saving the character of Queen’s Road West

By Mathew Scott

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WeChat starts conversation with blocked foreign sites

25-05-2017 01:54

Michael Mandelbaum

What Nato needs from Trump

24-05-2017 16:54

Not quite dead: how Trump-spurned TPP could be resuscitated

24-05-2017 11:42

Why CIA losses will cripple spy operations in China

23-05-2017 23:56

Alberto Sperindio

The dark side of China’s sharing economy

23-05-2017 21:38

Nina L Khrushcheva

Moscow’s housing estates erupt

23-05-2017 17:26

The Rouhani factor: A winning referendum on reform in Iran

23-05-2017 11:21

Pakistan’s tribal areas face restricted path to integration

22-05-2017 23:47

What Trump’s first foreign tour tells us

22-05-2017 20:19

Sudha Ramachandran

India looks to the heavens as monsoon dance begins

22-05-2017 03:57

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