Chinese tourists ousted over attire, Singapore exec’s 19kg loss: 7 highlights

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Ishin no Kai leaders aretoutingthe progress forging a partnership after two days of negotiations. While Ishin no Kai’s participation in a coalition government has not been finalized, the talks have progressed to the point thatit appears that LDP leader Sanae Takaichi’s election to the premiership is all but assured. The…

TOKYO — What if a political earthquake upends Japan in unpredictable ways and yet very little changes anyway? It would be better for Asia’s second-biggest economy if we could dismiss this question out of hand. If we could say definitively that the Liberal Democratic Party’s Sanae Takaichi or the Democratic Party for the People’s Yuichiro…

A group of lawmakers has urged the United States Commerce Department to investigate and potentially ban the sale of networking products from TP‑Link Technologies by the end of this month, as these products maypose a “serious and present danger” to US information and communications-technology security. In a formal letter to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,…

As China’s global influence grows, the landscape of China studies is undergoing a profound transformation. Scholars both within China and internationally are confronting new challenges, from escalating geopolitical tensions and mutual distrust – especially between Washington and Beijing – to increasingly limited access, making research and academic collaboration more difficult than ever. Some have also…

The computing chips that power artificial intelligence consume a lot of electricity. On Wednesday, the world’s biggest manufacturer of those chips showed off a new strategy to make them more energy efficient: using AI-powered software to design them. At a conference in Silicon Valley, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the contract manufacturer that fabricates chips…