Asia Pacific

THE ECONOMIST: The Taliban represent the farthest end of a global continuum of restrictions on female lives, writes Sarah Little.

For years, the Pacific islands managed to persuade more powerful allies that climate change was the region’s defining security challenge and pushed them to act. That may change.

Zhu Rongji, who as China's premier pushed through a dizzying array of changes that helped ignite China's explosive economic boom, has died at 97.

ANDREW GREENE: The growth of the two nations’ relationship has been truly remarkable, which makes Anthony Albanese’s crass comments about the country’s female leader so baffling.

Beijing has made its displeasure known after New Zealand’s Foreign Minister told a Chinese-born MP to ‘go back to your own country’.

Japan has been hit by at least 100 aftershocks as the rescue mission begins for the trapped and missing with a predicted 34-degree day adding to the urgency.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Australian military officials have snubbed a major celebration held at the Chinese embassy as tensions between both nations simmer following Beijing’s missile test in the Pacific this month.

An international fracas involving Chinese diplomats has erupted on the sidelines of the Labor Party’s National Conference after The Nightly revealed a Taiwanese representative had been invited to the event.

A wave of new releases from China is testing Washington’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s army has been forced to defend its distinctive paint job on ‘enemy’ tanks during a warfare exercise in Victoria.

The country’s top diplomat has confronted her Lao counterpart amid fury over the response to the deaths of two Australian teens.

An annual survey from the Pew Research Centre found that more countries felt positively about China than America.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has sparked an initial tsunami warning for the nation’s coastal areas.

Beijing has issued a blunt response to a joint statement from 14 nations criticising China’s ‘destabilising’ actions in the contested waters of the South China Sea.

Connor Murphy reportedly described gold as ‘mind blowing’ in the lead up to his drowning death in Thailand.

The German cases have been compared to that of Gisèle Pelicot, a French woman who was repeatedly drugged and raped by her then-husband and strangers he invited to their home.

Maritime data compiled for The Nightly has revealed at least four hi-tech Chinese satellite tracking vessels were deployed to the region in the days leading up to Beijing’s missile test.

More than 100 people watched the public punishment of the pair, after they livestreamed themselves kissing in the conservative Indonesian province.