China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System
It’s hard to be anonymous online in China. Websites and apps must verify users with their phone numbers, which are tied to personal identification numbers that all adults are assigned.
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The Thai Women Punching Their Way Out of Poverty
She was boxing for money. Even at 13 years old, she knew that.
Let Hong Kong be itself, a city where life always finds a way
Every Sunday, when I walk through the covered walkways of Central, I feel as though I’ve stepped into a parallel universe. Past Exchange Square, in the same spots occupied by cigarette-smoking financiers on weekdays, I see middle-aged men lying face down for a cut-price massage.
‘Signal to China’: US military command upgrade in Japan mark of commitment to region, analysts say
The upgrading of the command and control of US forces in Japan will allow both countries to better deal with “fluid circumstances” and sends a “powerful geopolitical signal to China” on the strength of Washington’s commitment to Tokyo and the region, according to observers.
Disney's Marvel needed a direction. With a big box office and familiar faces, it may have one
Editor's note: This article contains spoilers for "Deadpool & Wolverine."
What the Coconut Tree meme says about Kamala Harris' Indian heritage
Vishakha N. Desai, president emerita of the Asia Society and former senior adviser for global affairs to the president of Columbia University
Trouble brewing for Malaysia’s opposition bloc over beer funding for Chinese school event
The future of Malaysia’s main opposition front coalition is hanging by a thread as two of its founding members threaten to part ways following a feud over a brewery sponsorship of a Chinese school charity event.
Australian inquiry will hear evidence that Christian extremists killed 3 in an act of terrorism
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An inquiry will hear evidence that three Christian extremists who killed two police officers and a bystander and wounded a third police officer in an ambush on a rural Australian property in 2022 committed an act of terrorism aimed at intimidating state authorities, a coroner was told on Monday.