Stories about US-China rivalry often centre on artificial intelligence, trade or defence, but we start today with a different area of competition — that between American and Chinese coffee chains.

Japan records its highest temperature ever at 41.2 degrees as South Korea endures 23 nights in a row above 25 degrees.

China is expected to fill a gap in aid funding to Australia's region as the Trump administration slashes US development ...

In the past two decades, South-East Asia averaged 8.5 per cent gross domestic product growth, and foreign direct investment flow into the region grew nearly fourteen-fold. While China and the US have ...

The U.K. Carrier Strike Group passed through the Suez Canal—a strategic waterway in Egypt that connects the Mediterranean to ...

Malaysia is hoping to become a regional leader in the digital economy, but environmental, resource and geopolitical ...

In South-East Asia El Niño could also exacerbate another big problem: haze. Farmers and plantation owners often prepare for harvests by slashing and burning crops and forests. The resulting haze ...

He also said that it is “deeply concerning” how South-East Asia remains the only nuclear weapon-free zone that is not yet formally recognised by Nuclear Weapon States through the signing and ...