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When Shinsegae Group chairman Chung Yong-jin bowed before cameras in Seoul on May 26, 2026, it marked his second public apology in two weeks. The controversy stemmed from a Starbucks Korea promotion l...
South Korea’s latest Starbucks controversy is not only about a badly judged marketing campaign. It is about a recurring political habit: When public outrage gathers force, powerful actors treat collec...
Taiwanese authorities have busted a smuggling ring that used Japan as a waypoint to funnel Super Micro Computer servers loaded with high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips into China, arres...
As Asia’s premier defense forum opens in Singapore on May 29, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue is morphing from a venue of superpower posturing into a high-stakes market for strategic hedging. Driven by...
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping embraced the language of “constructive strategic stability” in Beijing, Myanmar’s war was again showing what calm between great powers can mean at China’s frontier. In M...
China’s financial policymakers face a genuine dilemma. On one side, the country intends to gain deeper access to global capital markets, internationalize the renminbi and build a world-class market in...
On April 30, the US Trade Representative designated Vietnam as a Priority Foreign Country for intellectual property, the most severe classification in the annual Special 301 Report and the first time ...
Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a...
Every year, in a gleaming hotel ballroom in Singapore, the Indo-Pacific strategic order gets set for a public display. This happens not through signing of communiqués or conventions but through who sh...
We explore how a dead ape became Donald Trump’s spirit animal, Elon Musk’s muse, and a sign of the End Times
Featuring Kelela’s post-punk-tinged ‘linknb’, Olivia Rodrigo’s heartwrenching ‘The Cure’, and, whether you like it or not, Drake
Filmed during the brat summer of 2024, the microbudget indie stars Charli xcx as Bethany, a young woman who reconnects with an old flame while on holiday with her soon-to-be fiancé
From spiritual flowcharts to psychological models, diagrams are increasingly becoming a tattoo choice – but what exactly do they signify?
Nearly 43,500 NYC residents are at risk of losing their benefits because of new SNAP requirements, with young adults among the hardest hit – here’s what you need to know ahead of the deadline
The 26-year-old musician talks new album U, making ‘galleria music’ for malls, and why DIY visuals matter in the age of AI
The skate brand just dropped a new collaboration with Rizla. Plus: all the fashion news you missed this week
She's already worked with fakemink, Drake and Yeat, but Julia Wolf is just getting started. We speak to the rising star - and diehard Twilight fan - as she releases her latest single, Deep End
How Douglas Latchford got away with it; plus, Frank Stella’s Navajo weavings.
Her photographs showcase an intensely physical side of the city: breaking down boxes to dance upon, spray-painting subway cars.