Climate
Million Evacuated as Typhoon Dolphin Hits China
The strongest cyclone to hit China this year came ashore in Zhejiang with winds of 151km/h, grounding 1,500 flights in Shanghai and emptying coastal cities.
Category: East Asia
Korean Box Office Posts Best Year Since Pandemic
Admissions for Korean films rose 74.9 per cent in the first half, led by The King's Warden, but Hollywood imports are dominating the summer…
Gintama Film Reaches Netflix on 27 August
The compilation film opened in Japan in February and ranked second at the box office. It arrives worldwide as a standalone Netflix release later…
Shueisha Puts 400 Manga Titles Online for Free
The publisher centenary project offers a million pages in more than 100 languages, including Hindi and Tagalog, with no registration and no AI translation.
Samsung Unveils Memory Stacked Above AI Chips
The zHBM concept places high-bandwidth memory directly above AI accelerators, while a new 400-layer NAND design lifts storage density by about 58 per cent.
Dollar Drops Against Yen After US and Japan Confirm Rare Joint Intervention
Tokyo and Washington say they bought yen jointly on Friday after the currency hit a 40-year low. The dollar fell about 1 per cent…
Kospi Falls 5% as Chip Rally Unwinds Across Asia
Seoul gave back much of Friday's record 17.9% rally as Samsung and SK Hynix fell near 9%, while yen intervention pushed Japan's Nikkei down…
Japan Enshrines Male-Only Imperial Succession, Ruling Out Princess Aiko
The revision allows adoption of distant male relatives to father future heirs, leaving Princess Aiko ineligible and the imperial family with five adult men.
China Launches World AI Cooperation Organization as Xi Presses for Global Governance
Xi Jinping announced WAICO, headquartered in Shanghai, at the 2026 World AI Conference, positioning it as an alternative governance venue as US export controls…