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The New Delhi skyline engulfed in heavy smog on Nov. 17

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Nov 24, 2024

Mounting economic costs of India's killer smog

By Arunabh SAIKIA

Smog in New Delhi this month contains more than 50 times the World Health Organization's recommended limit of fine particulate matter.

A large screen shows news footage of China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe collecting a sample from the far side of the moon, in Beijing in June.

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Nov 16, 2024

China tests building moon base with lunar soil bricks

A cargo rocket carrying brick samples blasted off late Friday for the Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the moon by 2030.

(Right to left) Astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze attend a see-off ceremony before taking part in the Shenzhou-19 spaceflight mission to China's Tiangong space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, on Wednesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Oct 30, 2024

Chinese astronauts to test lunar bricks in space

By Eduardo Baptista and Florence Lo

Should the tests prove successful, the bricks could be a key material used in the construction of a permanent lunar research station.

A view of the soon-to-be-completed and sealed central detector at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), during a media tour organized by the Chinese foreign ministry and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Kaiping, Guangdong province, China, on Oct. 11.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Oct 16, 2024

Inside the underground lab in China tasked with solving a physics mystery

By Ryan Woo

Learning more about neutrinos would offer clues to subatomic processes during the early days of the universe.

Patients wait for medical treatment in Incheon, South Korea, on April 23.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Sep 3, 2024

South Korea denies hospital emergency rooms collapsing as army doctors deployed

By Jack Kim

The government will send 15 military doctors to hard-hit emergency rooms and rotate 235 military and community doctors into troubled hospitals starting Sept. 9.

Mosquitoes under a microscope in a lab at Sahmyook University in Seoul on July 24

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Aug 27, 2024

As the world warms, South Korea's latest border threat is mosquitoes

By Claire Lee

Climate change, especially warmer springs and heavier rainfall, could bring more mosquito-borne diseases to North and South Korea.

Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, head of Thailand's Department of Disease Control, speaks during a news conference following the suspected first case of the new, more dangerous strain of mpox in Bangkok on Wednesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Aug 23, 2024

Thailand confirms Asia’s first case of new mpox virus strain

By Thomas Kutty Abraham and Pathom Sangwongwanich

The patient who tested positive for clade Ib was a European man who arrived in Bangkok last week from Africa.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Eme-Ima Kitchen is one of over 10,000 kodomo shokudō in Japan. A term first used in 2012 to describe makeshift eateries offering free or cheap meals to disadvantaged kids, it now refers to a diverse range of individuals, groups and organizations working to provide not only food but a sense of belonging to both children and adults.

Japan’s ‘children’s cafeterias’ are booming — but is that a good thing?

By Alex K.T. Martin

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