With sensational headlines packed with superlatives and often written in all caps, travel influencers battle for our attention on social media platforms — the more exotic the destination, the better. As a result, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and similar platforms are increasingly filled with travel videos from countries that are far from conventional tourist destinations.
Jakarta, October 1965. After a failed coup attempt, the Indonesian army and its allies killed, tortured and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Indonesians they suspected to be communists, many of them of Chinese descent.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, following the launch of an unidentified projectile on Tuesday, South Korea's military said. According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missiles were launched from North Korea's eastern coastal Wonsan area toward the eastern waters.
Talks in China between Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve an ongoing conflict have seen "useful" progress, according to Afghanistan's Taliban-run Foreign Ministry. The two sides have been negotiating in China's western city of Urumqi since Thursday last week in an effort to end clashes that have left scores killed on both sides.
The South Korean government has asked the European Union to act as a mediator in talks with North Korea as it seeks to move beyond the present bilateral "distrust and hostility" and achieve a breakthrough in relations with Pyongyang.
Taiwan's opposition leader Cheng Li-wun is on a rare visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping which as she says is for promoting cross-strait "peace."
Vietnam's Communist Party's Secretary General To Lam was unanimously elected by parliament as the country's president for a five-year term, making him the most powerful Vietnamese leader in decades.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday said it now considers the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be his political successor. Kim's heir apparent, thought to be named Kim Ju Ae, has accompanied her father on several official occasions in appearances thought to be cementing her position.
Myanmar's new parliament elected Min Aung Hlaing as president on April 3, formalizing the junta chief's grip on power under the veneer of civilian rule.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister Kim Yo Jong on Monday said regret expressed by Seoul over a January drone incursion into the North as wise behaviour. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung had earlier expressed regret to Pyongyang after a drone entered North Korea earlier this year, calling the act "irresponsible." What did Kim Yo Jong say?
Taiwan's main opposition party KMT chairperson Cheng Li-wun attends a press conference at the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club in Taipei on March 23, 2026.
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