Newsweek's map below illustrates the earthquakes that took place across central and southeast Asia within the last day. The earthquakes in Myanmar will have the most significant impacts ...

Png Chin Yee is chief financial officer at Temasek, Singapore's investment company. Png joined Temasek in July 2011, and her previous roles at Temasek include heading financial services; senior ...

Languages: English. John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters ...

Explain that Asia is one of several continents that make up the world. Discuss the meaning of continent and show these on a globe or 2D map of the world. Find Asia on a globe and discuss its ...

The global oil map is being redrawn as the long-run impact of western sanctions channels more barrels from Russia to Asia’s largest economies, with China also taking crude from Iran and Venezuela.

Australia’s place as part of Asia is clear on the map, but not so, it seems, in the minds of the public in Australia and some of its closest Asian neighbours. There are bright spots for sure. For ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has opened its long-awaited Kingdoms of Asia expansion. The addition includes exhibits for Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons, sloth bears, Asian ...

Myanmar's catastrophic earthquake last month came amid a flurry of smaller earthquakes across the Asia Pacific. The magnitude-7.7 quake near Mandalay on March 28 left more than 3,600 people dead ...

Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for Asia and the world across policy, arts and culture, education, sustainability, business, and technology. Asia Society takes no institutional ...

Southern Highlands is key to a proposed gas pipeline linking PNG and the Australian state of Queensland. Provincial Governor Hami Yawari condemned the move, threatening to block the gas project. The ...

Under Tsai, Taiwan, which has its own past of brutal authoritarian rule and repression of minorities, has championed LGBTQ rights and become a bastion of democracy and liberal values in Asia ...