Asia Pacific

Is South Korea’s ‘Buddhistcore’ Aesthetic a Fad or a Spiritual Awakening?

Is South Korea’s ‘Buddhistcore’ Aesthetic a Fad or a Sp...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 3, 2025 - 06:11

Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz w...

What to Know About Japan’s Leadership Election

What to Know About Japan’s Leadership Election

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 3, 2025 - 06:11

Japan’s beleaguered governing party will convene for a crucial election that cou...

In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant

In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesa...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 2, 2025 - 15:01

A U.S. aid agency had committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the project, ...

As Unrest in Pakistani Kashmir Turns Deadly, Prime Minister Urges Calm

As Unrest in Pakistani Kashmir Turns Deadly, Prime Mini...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 2, 2025 - 15:01

Days of protest in the regional capital, set off by a convergence of rival march...

No More Signs of Life From Rubble of Collapsed School in Indonesia

No More Signs of Life From Rubble of Collapsed School i...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 2, 2025 - 13:09

Rescuers saved five more students from under the building on Thursday but said t...

A Family’s Global Efforts to Free the Only Nepali Kidnapped by Hamas

A Family’s Global Efforts to Free the Only Nepali Kidna...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 2, 2025 - 11:09

A family’s campaign to free a student abducted from a rural Israeli town two yea...

A Run on Canned Mackerel and Emergency Radios. The Reason? Drones.

A Run on Canned Mackerel and Emergency Radios. The Reas...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 2, 2025 - 09:35

The Danish public has been unsettled by a wave of mysterious drone incursions, w...

At Frieze London, Ha Bik Chuen’s Collagraphs are on Display

At Frieze London, Ha Bik Chuen’s Collagraphs are on Dis...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 16:21

Print plates and collagraphs by Ha Bik Chuen have drawn increasing interest from...

Can This Japanese City Make Residents Put Down Their Smartphones?

Can This Japanese City Make Residents Put Down Their Sm...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 16:21

The authorities in Toyoake, Japan, introduced a rule limiting the use of digital...

Internet Is Restored in Afghanistan After a Two-Day Blackout

Internet Is Restored in Afghanistan After a Two-Day Bla...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 11:45

No reason was immediately given for why service had resumed. The scope of the bl...

A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll Buy It All

A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll B...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 11:45

The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts...

In the Philippines, Search Teams Look for Survivors of Deadly Earthquake

In the Philippines, Search Teams Look for Survivors of ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 11:45

At least 69 people were killed in Cebu Province by the 6.9-magnitude temblor — i...

Internet Blackout in Afghanistan Enters 3rd Day

Internet Blackout in Afghanistan Enters 3rd Day

NYT > Asia Pacific, Oct 1, 2025 - 08:37

Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been...

Dig Reveals Stunning 12,000-Year-Old Rock Art in Saudi Arabia

Dig Reveals Stunning 12,000-Year-Old Rock Art in Saudi ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 30, 2025 - 17:01

The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of ...

Missing From a U.N. Meeting on Helping Refugees? The Refugees.

Missing From a U.N. Meeting on Helping Refugees? The Re...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 29, 2025 - 15:32

World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest ref...

India-Pakistan Tensions Lead to Trophy-Less Cricket Final at Asia Cup

India-Pakistan Tensions Lead to Trophy-Less Cricket Fin...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 29, 2025 - 13:34

Months after a military conflict, a cricket tournament brought the Indian team t...

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Upends Lives: ‘My Dreams Were Shattered’

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Upends Lives: ‘My Dreams Were Sha...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 29, 2025 - 01:35

A generation of students in India pinned hopes and family savings on careers tha...

North Korea Sends Delegation From Pyongyang to General Assembly After Long Absence

North Korea Sends Delegation From Pyongyang to General ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 26, 2025 - 15:30

The last time North Korea sent officials directly from the capital was in 2018, ...

As Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Targets Foreign Workers, China Woos Them

As Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Targets Foreign Workers, China...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 26, 2025 - 11:07

A new visa for science and engineering graduates is part of China’s effort to es...

Trump’s New Tariffs Shock Countries Reeling From His Chaotic Trade War

Trump’s New Tariffs Shock Countries Reeling From His Ch...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 26, 2025 - 08:06

Throughout Asia, the source of about 40 percent of U.S. imports, countries have ...

Review: Pene Pati, a Tenor With an Affinity for French Poetry and Rugby

Review: Pene Pati, a Tenor With an Affinity for French ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 25, 2025 - 12:07

Pene Pati made his New York recital debut at the Armory with a program that show...

With Sobs and Doubts, Greenlandic Women Receive Apology for Forced Contraception

With Sobs and Doubts, Greenlandic Women Receive Apology...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 18:24

Some Greenlanders asked why an apology had not come decades earlier, and chalked...

A Flash of Anger on India’s Delicate Border With China

A Flash of Anger on India’s Delicate Border With China

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 18:24

Protesters demanding statehood for Ladakh, a strategically important Himalayan r...

Abdul Gani Bhat Dies at 93; Kashmiri Separatist Championed Dialogue

Abdul Gani Bhat Dies at 93; Kashmiri Separatist Champio...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 16:05

Mr. Bhat, a scholar of Persian literature, was a rare and eloquent voice of mode...

Typhoon Ragasa Slams Into China After Deaths in Taiwan and the Philippines

Typhoon Ragasa Slams Into China After Deaths in Taiwan ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 16:05

One million residents of Guangdong, in southern China, were evacuated before the...

Germany Woos Indian Workers Spooked by Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee

Germany Woos Indian Workers Spooked by Trump’s H-1B Vis...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 13:05

Selling the prospect of high wages and stable migration rules, Germany’s ambassa...

Typhoon Ragasa Tears Through Guangfu in Taiwan, Killing at Least 17

Typhoon Ragasa Tears Through Guangfu in Taiwan, Killing...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 24, 2025 - 10:35

Hundreds of firefighters and soldiers dispatched to Guangfu have gone door to do...

Typhoon Ragasa Floods Taiwan and Barrels Toward China’s Coast

Typhoon Ragasa Floods Taiwan and Barrels Toward China’s...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 23, 2025 - 11:05

Two people were reported dead in Taiwan, with dozens missing. Hong Kong canceled...

Woman Is Convicted of Killing Her Children and Leaving Them in Suitcases

Woman Is Convicted of Killing Her Children and Leaving ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 23, 2025 - 09:05

Years after Hakyung Lee left New Zealand for her native South Korea, the bodies ...

As the U.S. Pulls Back From the U.N., Rivals Stand to Gain

As the U.S. Pulls Back From the U.N., Rivals Stand to Gain

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 22, 2025 - 18:53

We explain how Russia, China, Iran and other countries are trying to strengthen ...

Kim Jong-un Open to Talks if U.S. Drops Demand to Denuclearize

Kim Jong-un Open to Talks if U.S. Drops Demand to Denuc...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 22, 2025 - 17:04

The North Korean leader’s comments came days after President Trump said he would...

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 22, 2025 - 12:05

In China, journalism and public debate were opening up, and then a leader took o...

How to Go to Tahiti Without Spending a Fortune

How to Go to Tahiti Without Spending a Fortune

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 22, 2025 - 05:16

Inexpensive airfare and a house swap made a last-minute family trip to French Po...

Trump’s Tariffs Are Damaging America’s Biggest Foreign Source of Screws

Trump’s Tariffs Are Damaging America’s Biggest Foreign ...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 22, 2025 - 00:30

Taiwan has long been the top provider of screws to the United States. But its fa...

Justice Alito, in Rome, Says Religious Liberty Is Under Siege

Justice Alito, in Rome, Says Religious Liberty Is Under...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 20, 2025 - 16:26

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a conservative Catholic, has visited Rome for decad...

How Xi Is Using a TikTok Tradeoff to Court Trump

How Xi Is Using a TikTok Tradeoff to Court Trump

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 19, 2025 - 12:01

Agreeing to a deal suggests that the fate of TikTok matters less to Beijing than...

Catholics Project Many Images Onto Pope Leo: Liberal? Conservative? Cubs Fan?

Catholics Project Many Images Onto Pope Leo: Liberal? C...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 18, 2025 - 17:33

Unlike Francis, Leo XIV has given few clues about where he stands on issues divi...

What Will China’s Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World?

What Will China’s Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World?

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 18, 2025 - 07:07

Laos is just one of the emerging markets where China’s green-tech revolution is ...

Internet Shutdowns Hit Parts of Afghanistan

Internet Shutdowns Hit Parts of Afghanistan

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 18, 2025 - 07:07

Some provincial officials said the country’s leader instructed them to switch of...

Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Revealed by ‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil

Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Revealed by ‘Shockingly Bea...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 17, 2025 - 12:13

A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pac...

How China Is Losing Its Title as the World’s Sneaker Factory

How China Is Losing Its Title as the World’s Sneaker Fa...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 17, 2025 - 12:13

For American manufacturers, it is hard to quit China and its unrivaled factories...

Young Protesters in Nepal Recover Looted Goods for Shopkeepers

Young Protesters in Nepal Recover Looted Goods for Shop...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 17, 2025 - 05:52

After protests left behind a trail of destruction in Nepal, a group of small bus...

A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glas...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 16, 2025 - 19:24

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from ...

How China Is Weathering the Trade War With Trump

How China Is Weathering the Trade War With Trump

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 16, 2025 - 11:36

Tariffs triggered a plunge in China’s exports to the United States, but its glob...

Nvidia Broke Antitrust Law, China Says, as Tensions With U.S. Mount

Nvidia Broke Antitrust Law, China Says, as Tensions Wit...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 15, 2025 - 20:33

Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nv...

India-Pakistan Tensions Hit New Pitch With Cricket Snub

India-Pakistan Tensions Hit New Pitch With Cricket Snub

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 15, 2025 - 12:04

The Indian players refused to shake hands with their Pakistani opponents at the ...

A Chaotic Showdown Over Election Integrity in India

A Chaotic Showdown Over Election Integrity in India

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 13, 2025 - 06:00

Opposition parties say a move by India’s election commission is part of a wider ...

Who Is Sushila Karki, the New Leader of Nepal?

Who Is Sushila Karki, the New Leader of Nepal?

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 12, 2025 - 17:34

Supported by Gen Z protest leaders, Sushila Karki is a former chief justice know...

Nepal Has a New Leader After Days of Unrest. Here’s What to Know.

Nepal Has a New Leader After Days of Unrest. Here’s Wha...

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 12, 2025 - 13:33

Supported by Gen Z protest leaders, Sushila Karki is a former chief justice and ...

The Manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s Killer

The Manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s Killer

NYT > Asia Pacific, Sep 12, 2025 - 09:06

The F.B.I. released two grainy images of a person of interest, but the gunman re...