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Asia Pacific

6 May 2025

  • teenage school girls on their phones

    New Zealand’s prime minister proposes social media ban for under-16s

    The draft bill is modelled on Australian laws and would force digital platforms to verify the age of users or face heavy fines

5 May 2025

  • Aerial of the Island Western Australia

    Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

  • Anna Kwok, a Washington based Hong Kong activist.

    Rights groups condemn arrest of Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok’s father and brother

  • FILE - Cardinal Luis Tagle smiles as he listens reporters questions during a press conference on the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, 23 Oc, 2018.

    Who is Luis Antonio Tagle? The Philippine cardinal and ‘karaoke priest’ in the running for pope

4 May 2025

  • Artist Su Yu-Xin, 33, poses for a portrait in her Los Angeles studio in March.

    The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

    Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science lab

3 May 2025

  • Singapore's prime minister and secretary general of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP), Lawrence Wong, (C-R) waves to supporters with his team

    Singapore ruling party wins election in landslide

    People’s Action party retains majority, with sample counts showing it winning all but 10 seats in 97-seat legislature
  • Kim Moon-soo waves on stage

    South Korea’s conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate

    People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial law
  • Illustration of Donald Trump made up of black lines on a page of text to look like redacted words in an article

    Rights and freedom
    ‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media

    Today on World Press Freedom Day, there are warnings that US attempts to withdraw from promoting independent journalism will have far-reaching effects

2 May 2025

  • Containers are stacked on the deck of cargo ship One Manhattan in New Jersey.

    Why is Trump ending the ‘de minimis’ tariff loophole on low-value imports?

  • Xi Jinping

    China ‘evaluating’ US offer to engage in trade negotiations

  • A tableau of white, red and purple gems arranged in symmetrial lines and framed in a rectangle

    Auction of ancient Indian gems ‘imbued with presence of Buddha’ condemned

  • A screenshot from a CIA video seeking to convince disillusioned Chinese officials to leak government secrets to the US.

    ‘For a better life’: CIA releases videos to lure disgruntled CCP officials to spy on China

1 May 2025

  • Police officers investigate the scene of crash in busy street in Osaka

    Japanese police arrest man after alleged car attack on schoolchildren, say reports

    Motorist held in Osaka on suspicion of attempted murder after seven children injured, according to local media

  • Footage shows Australian police arriving on scene after Bondi Junction attack – video

    Joel Cauchi killed five women and one man in a stabbing spree in April 2024
  • A snake that became entangled in overhead wires and caused a short circuit (Courtesy of JR Central)

    Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt

    Outage occurred between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations after the snake appeared to have climbed an electricity pole

30 April 2025

  • festival scene, with a crowd of people in front of stage with row of people standing in a line

    ‘Radical joy’: Cambodians in California celebrate Khmer culture 50 years after Killing Fields

  • Anapela Polataivao wearing a dress with frangipani print in different colours, and a hibiscus behind one ear, gesturing with one arm and smiling at something off camera.

    Tinā review – a feelgood choir drama that follows a winning formula

  • Temu and Shein app icons

    Chinese e-commerce exports to US plummet by 65% in face of tariffs

  • A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, signifying the fall of South Vietnam, 30 April 1975.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Vietnam war is over: Saigon gives in with a sigh of relief – archive, 1975

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