Asia

While the 90-day tariff truce between China and the US is seen as a relief, at the heart of the stand-off is a clash between Donald Trump's America First vision and Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream.

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion people have, from work to marriage. 

Death threats and alleged crimes against humanity loom over the Philippines midterm elections, but in Australia the diaspora community is excited about online voting and Filipino democracy sausages.

The so-called Great Recall campaign in Taiwan is deepening domestic political divides and rocking the self-ruled island's democracy.

The promise by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to not leave anyone behind struck a chord with many in the Indian diaspora.

China's Foreign Ministry sharply criticises Australia after joint drills in the South China Sea with the US and the Philippines, accusing all three nations of trying to "create trouble."

Blasts have rung out across the Indian city of Jammu during what the government said was a Pakistani drone and missile attack on military stations around the Kashmir region on the second day of clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbours. 

As the world waits with bated breath to see what will happen next between India and Pakistan, there are signs the conflict between the two nuclear-armed states may have reached a plateau.

Air strikes by India against Pakistan are a major escalation in India-Pakistan tensions that experts say could, if taken to the extreme, result in nuclear conflict.

Xi Jinping sees Australia as a strategic partner — a relatively stable player amid the turbulence of Beijing's deteriorating relationship with the United States.

India's military struck infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir allegedly used by militants linked to last month's massacre of tourists in the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir. Take a look back at how it unfolded.

More than 80 people have plunged into a river following strong winds that capsized four tourist boats in China. 

Ahead of the 2025 general election, there was significant redrawing of electoral boundaries, leading to accusations of gerrymandering from government critics.

A fictional scenario from a film raises a real question: Could the new pope come from a country where Catholics are not the majority?

When Hywel Rowlands and Tra My Tran went looking for love online, scammers homed in. They want to help others know when they're at risk of losing their money as well as their hearts. 

Chinese Australians have pushed back strongly against the Liberal Party, after a video clip emerged of Liberal senator Jane Hume referring to alleged "Chinese spies" volunteering for Labor. 

It calls itself a democracy, yet the wealthy city-state has had the same ruling party since 1959. That is unlikely to change anytime soon.

The head of a Chinese community group that helped organise volunteers for two candidates has furiously denied he is trying to help China's government influence the federal election. 

Following a deadly militant attack, Pakistan and India have hit each other with a range of tough measures including cancelling visas, which has left families separated and wondering when they will be able to reunite. 

The Myanmar military has been accused of hoarding life-saving relief while survivors endure soaring heat, disease, and displacement in earthquake-shattered Myanmar.