Global news and dispatches from the regions shaping the day.
The prime minister leans on the Japan Innovation Party to pass laws through the upper house, yet the very bills that bind the two sides together are splitting her own Liberal Democrats and dragging her approval ratings down.
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Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has recast his cabinet and rebranded the trade ministry to foreground energy, a signal that securing power supply now ranks alongside trade as a pillar of the city state's economic strategy.
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For the first time since the 2021 coup, the junta's foreign minister sat with his regional counterparts. The gesture signaled a thaw in tone, yet the bloc offered warmth without dropping a single one of its demands.
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The northern port once dreamed of becoming a Hong Kong of its own, an open, market-driven gateway to the world. Its rise and its stall carry a lesson for two capitals that keep reaching for the state's hand.
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A rapidly expanding warhead stockpile and a new generation of missile submarines are giving Beijing a credible sea-based deterrent for the first time, reshaping the strategic balance across the Pacific.
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Japan has lifted its visa fee to five times its former level while cutting passport costs at home, a two sided attempt to ease overtourism and rebalance the flow of travelers.
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