An armed resistance movement against Myanmar's military-run government has criticized the junta for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/asia-pacific/myanmar-junta-bombing-quake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #earthquakes
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fear aid cuts by the U.S. — the largest provider of assistance to the stateless population from Myanmar — will compound food and health issues, and lead to a surge in crime. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/28/asia-pacific/politics/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-aid-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #rohingya #refugees #bangladesh #us #myanmar
Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his country's presence more felt across the Indo-Pacific region by testing U.S. allies on sensitive issues, as Donald Trump’s attention is taken up elsewhere. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/27/asia-pacific/politics/xi-us-allies-indo-pacific-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #us #southeastasia #australia #defense #donaldtrump
A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/asia-pacific/politics/chinese-network-fired-federal-workers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #us #donaldtrump #elonmusk
Deadly wildfires in South Korea worsened overnight as dry, windy weather hampers efforts to contain one of the country's worst-ever fire outbreaks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/asia-pacific/south-korea-deadly-wildfires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southkorea #wildfires
Chinese premier meets pro-Trump senator and calls for ‘dialogue over confrontation’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/pro-trump-senator-chinese-premier-meeting-tariffs #Trumpadministration #USforeignpolicy #Trumptariffs #AsiaPacific #DonaldTrump #USnews #China
At least seven international flights from Indonesia's resort island Bali have been cancelled, an airport official said Friday, after a volcano in the archipelago nation's east erupted. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/22/asia-pacific/indonesia-volcano-flight-disrupt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #mountains #airports
Taiwan identified 2027 as the potential year for a Chinese invasion for the first time in its annual military drills, as concerns grow on the self-ruled island about tensions with Beijing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/19/asia-pacific/taiwan-military-drills-2027/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #taiwan #china #pla
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a veiled swipe at the United States, says that major powers "should not bully the weak." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/07/asia-pacific/politics/china-major-powers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #us #ukraine #wangyi
LGBTQ+ advocacy groups in the Philippines are looking at new financing strategies and sources of funding, and calling for greater involvement by local health institutions to protect against foreign aid withdrawals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/06/asia-pacific/politics/philippines-lgbtq-us-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #philippines #southeastasia #lgbtq #us #usaid #donaldtrump #republicans #hiv
Taiwan is learning from companies in Ukraine that continue to operate amid the country's fight against Russia, a senior Taiwan official has said, as the island speeds up contingency planning amid growing Chinese threats. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/asia-pacific/taiwan-companies-ukraine-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #taiwan #china #us #donaldtrump #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
South Korea said it’s willing to accept any North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine who express a desire to defect to the South. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/19/asia-pacific/south-korea-north-pows/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southkorea #northkorea #russiaukrainewar
Asian perspectives of the U.S. have shifted from a country once perceived as a force of "moral legitimacy" to something akin to "a landlord seeking rent," Singapore's defense minister says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/17/asia-pacific/politics/singapore-asia-us-landlord/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #singapore #asia #southeastasia #us #donaldtrump #ngenghen
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A look at what lies ahead now that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been indicted for his martial law declaration and ordered to remain in a 12-square-meter cell at a detention center. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/27/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-yoon-indictment-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #yoonsukyeol
Trump's suspension of refugee admissions and the country's asylum program has left dozens of families in Hong Kong adrift — even after being approved for U.S. resettlement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/26/asia-pacific/us-bound-refugees-hong-kong/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #hongkong #donaldtrump #us #immigration
Thailand's same-sex law has come into force, making the kingdom the first Southeast Asian country to allow equal marriage and the biggest place in Asia to recognize such unions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/23/asia-pacific/society/thailand-same-sex-marriage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #thailand #lgbtq #samesexmarriage
North Korea launched several suspected short-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday, a day after the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan held talks to reaffirm ties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/14/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-ballistic-missiles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #missiles
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders not to "legitimize" the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" by opposing their curbs on women and girls' education. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/13/asia-pacific/malala-yousafzai-muslim-leaders-taliban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #malalayousafzai #taliban #afghanistan #discrimination #education
Authorities moved more than 45,000 people in earthquake-hit Tibet to shelters as they wound down the search in the Himalayas where the odds of survival were always slim. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/09/asia-pacific/tibet-earthquake-survivors-search/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #tibet #china #earthquakes
