Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people.

According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, ...

Google Maps is one of the most successful apps in history, with more than 10 billion downloads on the Google Play Store alone and coverage in over 250 countries and territories. Yet in a handful of ...

President Donald Trump headed for Asia Friday night for the first time this term, a trip where he’s expected to work on investment deals and peace efforts before meeting face-to-face with Chinese ...

From Kuala Lumpur to Gyeongju, President Trump is casting himself as a deal-maker and peace negotiator, while a wary region looks for tariff relief and steadier ties. A five-day tour of Asia, starting ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...

SAN ANTONIO – The devastating Texas Hill Country floods over the Fourth of July weekend have taken the lives of at least 108 people—including 71 adults and 37 children — in Kerr County. In the month ...

France, Luxembourg, Malta and Andorra are the latest to recognize a Palestinian state. A map of the world shows which countries recognize Palestinian statehood, and which countries plan to recognize ...

Both regions have more in common and more to learn from each other than meets the eye. The states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) have recently been ...

Three years since Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis, the government this week imposed new rules designed to rein in the country’s “green rush.” As of Thursday, ...