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Asia Pacific

12 July 2024

  • A person shops for cooking oil in Beijing.

    App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled

    App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandal
  • Aerial view of a container port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province in June 2024

    China posts record trade surplus as foreign importers rush to beat tariffs

    The $99bn figure comes as data shows exports growing at fastest rate in 15 months while imports fell
  • Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2024.

    Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

    Vessels have been rammed, punctured with knives, damaged by water cannon and targeted by military-grade lasers. Now the Philippines’ US ambassador has warned the aggression must be reduced to avoid conflict

11 July 2024

  • Lucita Barquin Cortez and David Fisk.

    Family wants answers after ‘horrific’ deaths of Australian couple and relative in Philippine hotel

  • A Chinese warship navigates on waters near Pengjia Islet in northern Taiwan, in this handout image released May 23, 2024. Taiwan Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

    Chinese warships spotted off Alaska coast, US Coast Guard says

  • Leaders attend a working session during the Nato Summit in Washington.

    China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato

  • Cooking oil products at a supermarket in Beijing

    Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil

10 July 2024

  • ONE TIME USE ONLY. Illustration for the Pacific Project. Western countries security deals with Pacific Nations. Final

    Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty

    Pacific country must ‘maintain independence’ in security partnerships, military commander warns, amid spread of deals struck with other countries
  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

    Lee Sun-kyun appears posthumously in one of his best performances as an actor struggling to control his night-time excursions in this elegant and intimate horror

    • Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers

    • Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

    • Japan adds ‘most severe’ category to its heatstroke index amid deadly summer

9 July 2024

  • Lonely person standing by the sea, looking out into the distance in Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

    New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages

    Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine life

8 July 2024

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    Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means

  • Vistors trying out an AI assistant program at the Baidu stand

    Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China

  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    From the agencies
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • A person walks on the street protecting herself from the sun with a parasol and using a handheld fan in the late of afternoon on 5 July 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The capital of Japan is swept by intense heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in Tokyo.

    Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

7 July 2024

  • Iwao Hakamada, left, flanked by his sister Hideko, on the day of his release in 2014.

    Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name

    Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict

6 July 2024

  • A scene from the hit Thai film How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    Golden age for south-east Asian cinema as local films break box office records

    As Hollywood grapples with production delays, locally made films are boosting the industry in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia

5 July 2024

  • A worker assembling a car frame that is raised above the floor of the factory

    China to hold hearing into brandy imports as tension grows with EU over tariffs on EVs

    Ministry will discuss investigation into claims that European producers are selling goods below market rates
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