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Revolutionaries, relationships, and ramen, Oh my!: Top 10 reads of 2025

Revolutionaries, relationships, and ramen, Oh my!: Top ...

Northwest Asian Weekly, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

Well dear readers, we've come to the end of another year.

Frustrated with South Korea, more men seek work-life balance and love in Japan

Frustrated with South Korea, more men seek work-life ba...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

An increasing number of South Korean men are looking to Japan not only for emplo...

Operation Santa Claus helps Hong Kong’s Shaw Foundation uplift smaller charities

Operation Santa Claus helps Hong Kong’s Shaw Foundation...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

One of Asia’s largest philanthropic organisations, the Shaw Foundation, has pled...

Health and beauty chain Mannings to withdraw from mainland China

Health and beauty chain Mannings to withdraw from mainl...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

Mannings, one of Hong Kong’s largest health and beauty chains, will cease all re...

China’s new ‘invest in people’ slogan heralds a rethink in economic strategy

China’s new ‘invest in people’ slogan heralds a rethink...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

Beijing’s fresh imperative to “invest in people” – first raised in a proposal fo...

Nepal rolls out tourist tracking system to keep tabs on foreigners after protest delays

Nepal rolls out tourist tracking system to keep tabs on...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

As tourist numbers climb back towards record highs, Nepal is rolling out a new d...

Arthur Joseph Kurup appointed as Malaysia’s new environment minister

Arthur Joseph Kurup appointed as Malaysia’s new environ...

Eco-Business News, Dec 16, 2025 - 22:08

He takes the helm of the Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability mini...

End of the road for Hong Kong’s democracy movement? There’s still hope

End of the road for Hong Kong’s democracy movement? The...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

Hong Kong’s Democratic Party has announced what many people had been expecting f...

Screening of Kiwi Chow’s new film banned in Hong Kong over national security concerns

Screening of Kiwi Chow’s new film banned in Hong Kong o...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

An award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, who previously directed a documentary on t...

MetaX soars in frenzied debut as traders snap up second Chinese GPU maker to go public

MetaX soars in frenzied debut as traders snap up second...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

MetaX Integrated Circuits soared on its trading debut in Shanghai, as investors ...

Alleged Bondi Beach shooter to face charges as funerals begin for victims

Alleged Bondi Beach shooter to face charges as funerals...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

A man accused of perpetrating Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in three decad...

Bikini-clad Taiwan ‘bodybuilding grandma’, 72, flaunts toned muscles at competition

Bikini-clad Taiwan ‘bodybuilding grandma’, 72, flaunts ...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

A 72-year-old grandmother in Taiwan has stunned the internet by donning a bikini...

Marshall Islands launches universal basic income scheme offering cryptocurrency - in world first

Marshall Islands launches universal basic income scheme...

The Guardian | Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency ...

The rural towns fighting for survival as New Zealand grapples with a growing exodus

The rural towns fighting for survival as New Zealand gr...

The Guardian | Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 20:48

Ruapehu is emblematic of question facing New Zealand: how to prevent rural regio...

First Mithi Yaad: Sardani Harcharan Kour (1937 – 2025)

First Mithi Yaad: Sardani Harcharan Kour (1937 – 2025)

Asia Samachar, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

First Mithi Yaad “Mum, your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure; you are...

As Doha Forum made clear, Europe is losing its seat at the table

As Doha Forum made clear, Europe is losing its seat at ...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

The latest Doha Forum laid bare an uncomfortable truth: Europe is losing its sea...

Surviving the shocks: what China and the US learned from 2025’s trade war

Surviving the shocks: what China and the US learned fro...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the secon...

Rob Reiner’s son Nick facing 2 counts of murder in the killing of his parents

Rob Reiner’s son Nick facing 2 counts of murder in the ...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

Los Angeles prosecutors said on Tuesday that Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner will b...

Senior US and Chinese defence officials meet as ‘military-to-military’ dialogue continues

Senior US and Chinese defence officials meet as ‘milita...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

Senior US and Chinese defence officials met in Washington this week in the lates...

China’s new drug insurance: lifeline for patients or squeeze on big pharmaceutical firms?

China’s new drug insurance: lifeline for patients or sq...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

Mainland China’s 17 million Alzheimer’s patients can, for the first time, pay le...

Why China’s young are flocking to government jobs in record numbers

Why China’s young are flocking to government jobs in re...

CNBC | Asia News, Dec 16, 2025 - 18:35

China's educated youth lower their ambitions to find security and better work-li...

In a Remote Jungle, the Gruesome Poaching of Rare Elephants

In a Remote Jungle, the Gruesome Poaching of Rare Eleph...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 17:05

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded —...

Nick Reiner: Hotel Room Troubled Son of Rob Reiner and His Wife Fled to After Stabbing Them to Death Was Covered in Blood

Nick Reiner: Hotel Room Troubled Son of Rob Reiner and ...

IBTimes.sg, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:12

Nick was arrested at a Los Angeles subway station in Exposition Park, about 15 m...

Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Were Found with Their Throats Slit in Their Bed and Were Asleep When Son Nick Killed Them Before Fleeing to Hotel

Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Were Found with Their Throa...

IBTimes.sg, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:12

Their daughter Romy, 27, who lives across the street, then went to check on them...

Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram: Bondi Beach Terrorist Father Held Indian Passport but His Radicalized Son Was Born in Australia

Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram: Bondi Beach Terrorist Fat...

IBTimes.sg, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

Sajid and his son, Naveed, 24, are suspected of having carried out the attack du...

Who Was Nuno Loureiro? MIT Professor Shot Dead with Gunshot Wounds in His Boston Home as Cops Hunt for Gunman

Who Was Nuno Loureiro? MIT Professor Shot Dead with Gun...

IBTimes.sg, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

Loureiro was immediately taken to the hospital, but he later died from his injur...

"We are co-passengers and partners of the Global South": PM Modi on India-Ethiopia ties

"We are co-passengers and partners of the Global South"...

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], December 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesd...

Arctic has hottest year ever recorded, as climate impacts cascade

Arctic has hottest year ever recorded, as climate impac...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science ag...

Miss Finland anti-Chinese racism scandal is damaging country, PM says

Miss Finland anti-Chinese racism scandal is damaging co...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Tuesday that a racism scandal that s...

EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban in victory for carmakers

EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban in victory for carm...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

The European Commission unveiled a plan on Tuesday to drop the EU’s effective ba...

Trump has signed more executive orders this year than in his entire first term

Trump has signed more executive orders this year than i...

Asia News - South China Morning Post, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

With a stroke of his favourite black pen, Donald Trump has signed what should be...

UK, South Korea Seal Upgraded Trade Deal to Lock in Tariff-Free Access, Boost Service Exports

UK, South Korea Seal Upgraded Trade Deal to Lock in Tar...

Asia News - The Epoch Times, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:11

The agreement builds on a post-Brexit continuity pact and comes as the UK seeks ...

China’s Investment Slumped Further in November Amid Calls to Reform

China’s Investment Slumped Further in November Amid Cal...

Asia News - The Epoch Times, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:10

As persistent downturn in property sector weighs on consumption, retail sales la...

‘Low-cost’ terror: Bondi Beach investigators examine IS group link, Philippines trip

‘Low-cost’ terror: Bondi Beach investigators examine IS...

News from Asia-Pacific - France 24, Dec 16, 2025 - 16:10

The father-and-son duo alleged to have carried out Sunday's Bondi Beach massacre...

Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests

Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remo...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 14:22

Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorde...

Australia, After a Mass Shooting During Hanukkah, Looks for a Path Forward

Australia, After a Mass Shooting During Hanukkah, Looks...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 14:22

Jews are fearful of more violence and Muslims are wary of a backlash after the m...

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control in Wake of Bondi Beach Shooting

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control in Wake of Bondi ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Dec 16, 2025 - 14:22

The country has long looked warily at the cycle of gun violence in the United St...

Satwik-Chirag India's lone representative at BWF World Tour Finals

Satwik-Chirag India's lone representative at BWF World ...

AsiaPacificStar.com, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Hangzhou [China], December 16 (ANI): The popular Indian men's doubles duo of Sat...

Tibetan govt-in-exile condemns China-appointed Panchen Lama's remarks on Dalai Lama reincarnation

Tibetan govt-in-exile condemns China-appointed Panchen ...

AsiaPacificStar.com, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): The Tibetan governmen...

Buburuza COO Dr. Grygoriy Bakalor Says Your Dream Vacation Can Start Funding Itself Right Now

Buburuza COO Dr. Grygoriy Bakalor Says Your Dream Vacat...

IBTimes.sg, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Dr. Grygoriy Bakalor is the Chief Operating Officer of Buburuza, an AI-native fi...

Terror attack against Jews in Australia's Bondi Beach: Probe reveals accused Sajid Akram's Hyderabad background

Terror attack against Jews in Australia's Bondi Beach: ...

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 16 (ANI): Telangana Police on Tuesday st...

Commercial semiconductor production expected in coming weeks: MeitY Secretary

Commercial semiconductor production expected in coming ...

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

By Shailesh YadavNew Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): India is on the cusp of a...

Tigers reach 1-year deal with RHP Drew Anderson

Tigers reach 1-year deal with RHP Drew Anderson

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

(Photo credit: Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK)The Detroit Tigers and right-hander...

IPL 2026 Auction: Mustafizur heads to KKR for Rs 9.20 crores, Holder goes to GT for 7 crores

IPL 2026 Auction: Mustafizur heads to KKR for Rs 9.20 c...

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Abu Dhabi [UAE], December 16 (ANI): The accelerated round of the Indian Premier ...

Hong Kong descends into spiral of paranoia

Hong Kong descends into spiral of paranoia

AsiaPacificNews.net, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Hong Kong, December 16 (ANI): Hong Kong's court on December 15 delivered a guilt...

India: DRDO Initiates Critical Phase of Netra Mk2, Invites Private Sector to Develop Antenna Metallic Hood

India: DRDO Initiates Critical Phase of Netra Mk2, Invi...

The Asia Live, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has formally entered a ...

Stryker Falters in Ladakh: High-Altitude Trials Expose Power Gaps, Prompt 600hp Overhaul Ahead of 2026 Retests

Stryker Falters in Ladakh: High-Altitude Trials Expose ...

The Asia Live, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

The high-altitude deserts of Ladakh have long functioned as one of the world’s m...

India: HAL Slashes HTT-40 Delivery Target as Engine Supply Delays Persist

India: HAL Slashes HTT-40 Delivery Target as Engine Sup...

The Asia Live, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has sharply revised its delivery targets for...

Indian Navy to Commission Second MH-60R Helicopter Squadron INAS 335 at INS Hansa on December 17

Indian Navy to Commission Second MH-60R Helicopter Squa...

The Asia Live, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

The Indian Navy is set to significantly strengthen its rotary-wing aviation capa...

Charn Kaur Ganda Singh (1939 – 2025), Kajang, Selangor

Charn Kaur Ganda Singh (1939 – 2025), Kajang, Selangor

Asia Samachar, Dec 16, 2025 - 12:35

Charn Kaur d/o Ganda Singh (27.8.1939 – 16.12.2025) Kajang, Selangor Village: Ch...