After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar on Friday, international rescuers rushed into the devastated country. The most ubiquitous among them have been Chinese relief workers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/03/asia-pacific/myanmar-quake-china-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #southeastasia #earthquakes #china #us
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
A South Korean court is poised to decide on Monday whether to oust Prime Minister Han Duck-soo who was impeached in the aftermath of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law decree. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/24/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-pm-han-impeachment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #handucksoo #yoonsukyeol
The U.N.'s special rapporteur on Myanmar has lambasted the U.S. foreign aid cuts as a shameful act of betrayal that would cause untold suffering and death in the war-ravaged country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/18/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-us-aid-un-expert/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #myanmar #us #un #southeastasia
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
What's going on with this "indo-Pacific" thing that seems to have been invented this year?
Did Asia move? Did India stop being part of Asia? Is Indonesia suddenly a major power in the Pacific? What's the deal?
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
Raging wildfires in southeast Australia force evacuations, with thousands of acres scorched as heatwave conditions threaten to escalate the crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/28/asia-pacific/fires-national-parks-southeast-australia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #wildfires #australia
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
South Korea's anti-corruption agency has transferred to prosecutors its case against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, recommending his indictment for insurrection and abuse of power over his martial law declaration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/23/asia-pacific/politics/yoon-south-korea-investigators-indictment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #yoonsukyeol
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
China’s forced boarding schools for Tibetan children are aiming to erase their cultural identity, with children subjected to political indoctrination and separation from families. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/14/asia-pacific/politics/china-tibetan-culture-child/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #tibet
Right-wing YouTubers helped President Yoon Suk Yeol win his election. They are now his allies in the wake of his botched imposition of martial law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/05/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-conspiracy-theories-political-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #youtube #socialmedia #yoonsukyeol
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok said he would immediately move to fill vacancies on the Constitutional Court in a effort to restore stability. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/31/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-two-judges-appoint/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #yoonsukyeol
‘Moving to the mountaintops’: rising seas displace tens of thousands in Papua New Guinea https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/31/moving-to-the-mountaintops-rising-seas-displace-tens-of-thousands-in-papua-new-guinea #Pacificislands #PapuaNewGuinea #Climatecrisis #AsiaPacific #Environment
In an apparent signal to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used a recent key party meeting to announce his “toughest” ever strategy to counter the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/29/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-party-meeting-2024/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #us #nuclearweapons #missiles #donaldtrump #kimjongun #joebiden
New Vietnamese internet rules requiring Facebook and TikTok to verify user identities and hand over data to authorities has come into force, in what critics say is the latest attack on freedom of expression. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/26/asia-pacific/vietnam-internet-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #vietnam #internet #censorship #facebook #tiktok #videogames
