Thailand ends almost all travel restrictions — but one key rule remains
Travelers wondering what it’s like to visit Thailand now may be interested to know the country is “allowing almost everything” again.
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Here are the China trends investors bet money on during a sluggish few months
By the numbers, manufacturing companies in China snagged the most investment deals in the first half of the year among 37 sectors tracked by business database Qimingpian.
North Korea says US seeking an excuse for an Asian NATO
North Korea has criticized an agreement between the United States, South Korea and Japan to strengthen military cooperation -- claiming it is part of a US plan to create a military alliance like NATO in the region.
Chinese purchase of North Dakota farmland raises national security concerns in Washington
At first glance, the largely barren, wind-swept tract of land just north of Grand Forks, North Dakota, seems like an unlikely location for international espionage.
New Philippine President Marcos Jr. praises dictator father during inauguration address
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was sworn in as the 17th President of the Philippines on Thursday, restoring one of the country’s most notorious political dynasties to the Malacañang Palace 36 years after his father was ousted in a popular uprising.
Chinese stocks tumble as tech shares in Hong Kong fall; oil drops more than 4%
Shares in the Asia-Pacific region mostly traded lower on Wednesday, as economic fears continue to weigh on the market.
China’s multi-billion dollar shopping festival tests e-commerce giants and consumer appetite
China is in the midst of the "618" shopping festival, an annual event where the country's e-commerce giants like Alibaba and JD.com try to entice shoppers with massive discounts and promotions.
Trucker strike in South Korea enters seventh day, hits POSCO, Hyundai Motor
South Korean petrochemical firms on Monday joined the automobile and steel makers in cutting operations due to mounting inventories as transport disruptions..
Six arrested as Hong Kong snuffs out Tiananmen vigil, but memories live on
The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of police patrolled the grounds, stopping and searching passersby and sealing off entrances to the park.
North Korea launches 8 short-range ballistic missiles off east coast, South Korea says
North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) into the waters off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a move that Japan has called “unprecedented.”
Myanmar could see first executions in decades as junta says death sentences of two activists upheld
Two men will be executed in Myanmar by the military junta after their death sentence appeals were denied, the junta said Saturday, in what would mark the first judicial executions in the country in decades.
In Hong Kong, memories of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre are being erased
For decades it was a symbol of freedom on Chinese controlled soil: every June 4, come rain or shine, tens of thousands of people would descend on Victoria Park in Hong Kong to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.