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The affluent new monarch is also a close ally to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is facing down a strong Islamic opposition.
The latest sentence comes just a day after the embattled former PM was dealt a 10-year jail term for leaking state secrets.
No firm has been more central to China’s property crisis, which kicked off when Evergrande first showed signs of weakening in mid-2021.
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Ko Wen-je from the Taiwan People’s Party finished last in the first competitive three-way race for the Taiwan presidency since 2000, but he garnered more than a quarter of the popular vote.
Despite government ‘sweeteners’ like cheaper housing, tax benefits, and cash, Chinese women have been shunning marriage and babies at a rapid pace.
The government in Beijing failed to scare Taiwan’s voters into abandoning the DPP. It will now try to make them regret it.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged calm and reaffirmed Australia's friendship with Papua New Guinea as deaths mount from riots and looting.
Today China is an industrial powerhouse, home to over a quarter of the world’s manufacturing — more than America and Germany combined. But its progress has come at a cost in terms of emissions.
During the COVID-19 shutdown, some geishas launched Zoom drinking sessions. Others opened cocktail bars. Traditionalists find these innovations jarring. Yet they are consistent with geisha history.
Surrogates in China often come from poor, rural areas and have already had their children. They can earn tens of thousands of dollars per pregnancy. But it is a dangerous job.
The Korean space race has big implications for the peninsula’s security.
A North Korean vice foreign minister has travelled to China for high-level talks as Pyongyang launched another long-range ballistic missile.
President Joe Biden and Indonesian President Joko Widodo met at the White House on Monday to announce a new strategic partnership despite their differing views on the conflict in Gaza.