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South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol reacts outside the Seoul detention center after his release, in Uiwang, South Korea, on Saturday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 8, 2025

South Korea's impeached President Yoon released from detention

The suspended president walked out of the detention center smiling, before bowing deeply to a small crowd of cheering supporters.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the ongoing National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday. Wang said major powers should assume international obligations and not be profit-driven.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 7, 2025

Major powers should not bully the weak, China's top diplomat says

They should assume international obligations and not be profit-driven, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says.

Balboa Port, operated by Panama Ports Company, at the Panama Canal. Conglomerate CK Hutchison, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, has agreed to sell its ports network, including assets along the Panama Canal, to a U.S. consortium led by BlackRock.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS

Mar 7, 2025

As Trump hails taking back of Panama Canal, Hong Kong Inc. walks tightrope

By Clare Jim, James Pomfret and Anne Marie Roantree

Firms in the former British colony are increasingly under pressure to shake off any connection with China amid tensions between Beijing and Washington.

Rohingya refugees use a makeshift raft to cross the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh in 2017.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 6, 2025

Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: U.N.

The U.N. World Food Program says that "severe funding shortfalls" has forced it to cut monthly food vouchers for around 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Hong Kong activist Tang Ngok-kwan speaks to reporters in Hong Kong on Thursday after the Court of Final Appeal ruled in his favor and quashed his jail term for refusing to hand over information to the city's national security police.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 6, 2025

Hong Kong’s Tiananmen activists win rare appeal in security case

By Alan Wong

The ruling marked a rare victory in challenging the enforcement of the national security law imposed by Beijing.

Campaign supporters light a total of 1,638 candles, representing the number of dead victims claimed by HIV/AIDS in the Philippines since 1984, as part of their commemoration of International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day in metro Manila in 2016.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 6, 2025

Philippines' LGBTQ+ groups seek options to replace U.S. aid

By Mariejo Ramos

Advocacy groups are looking at new financing strategies and calling for greater involvement by local health institutions to protect against foreign aid withdrawals.

Military delegates arrive for the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Mar 5, 2025

China says it will boost defense spending by 7.2% this year

By Jesse Johnson

The 1.78 trillion yuan ($246 billion) budget was revealed at the annual session of China’s National People’s Congress on Wednesday.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.

Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly

By Tomoko Otake

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