How a Hong Kong Artist Got Fired From McDonald’s
On a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, e...
China Uses Public Shaming to Motivate State Workers
Chinese government workers have a lot to worry about these days. Cash-strapped local governments are struggling to pay their ...
South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home
In 2019, two North Korean fishermen confessed to murdering 16 shipmates before they fled to South Korea by boat and sought ...
Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows wh...
Bomber Given 10 Years in Prison for Attempted Murder of Japanese Premier
A court in western Japan sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to murder ...
Nepal Took a Risk on a $500 Million U.S. Grant. It May Now Regret It.
Nepal, the small Himalayan nation bordering China, was negotiating with Beijing over a major injection of infrastructure fina...
Korean Victim of WWII Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan’s Apology Dies
Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring ...
Okinawa Is a Japanese Island Caught Between the U.S. and China
Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was d...
U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule
Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the U...
Trump’s USAID Cuts Halt Agent Orange Victims Program in Vietnam
Nearly 40 years after she was born with a malformed spine and misshapen limbs — most likely because her father was exposed to...