China has set its sights on Southeast Asia with projects like industrial parks, ports, nickel-processing plants, auto ...

[SINGAPORE] The Philanthropy Asia Alliance (PAA) on Monday (May 5) announced the launch of two new “communities” – the Just Energy Transition (JET) Community and the Health for Human Potential (HHP) ...

TOKYO/HANOI -- Vietnam's auto sales in the first quarter of this year grew a strong 24%, year on year, rising faster than in Southeast Asia's bigger car markets, thanks to favorable economic ...

South Korea’s Ganghwa County, whose closest point is just 1.8km (1.1 mile) from North Korea, is creating a noise map to help residents cope with blaring loudspeaker broadcasts from the North.

X2.7-class eruption from sunspot AR4087 disrupts radio signals as the active region rotates toward Earth, raising the risk of more flares ahead. The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14 ...

it was hosting around 400 foreign diplomats and de facto diplomats in 2024, up from about 300 in 2022, according to a tabulation shown to Nikkei Asia by an official involved.

Senator Bong Go has widened his lead over ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo and other senatorial candidates in the latest Pulse Asia survey for the May 12 elections released on Monday. The Pulse ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sitting deep in east Indonesia's lush jungle, Bokum, one of the country's last isolated hunter-gatherers, has a simple ...

More than 130 illegal immigrants were deported to central Asian countries by US Immigration officials, including 90 who were shipped back to Uzbekistan — some with alarming rap sheets.

The $18-billion export terminal is now more than 98 per cent completed after nearly seven years of construction, and the first LNG shipment from Kitimat, B.C., is slated to set sail to Asia by mid ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...