From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.
A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them with ...
When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...
Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November ...
From Afghanistan to Bangladesh, India to Nepal, flash flooding and torrential rain have killed hundreds of people in recent weeks, as the climate crisis amplifies the effects of the monsoon season, ...
In the dynamic landscape of geopolitical shifts, U.S. policy toward South Asia has consistently been a critical area of focus. As the region continues to evolve amid changing political, economic, and ...
For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia. Home to around a ...
Welcome to the first edition of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s (ASPI) South Asia Snapshot, where each month we’ll dive into the region’s key policy developments. I’m Farwa Aamer, ASPI’s Director ...
On BBC Verify we’ve been looking at images of extreme weather patterns across southern Asia and we’ve now obtained satellite ...
The commander of U.S. Forces Korea is urging military planners to rethink how they view East Asia — literally — by rotating the map. Army Gen. Xavier Brunson argues that turning a regional map 90 ...
Heavy rainfall is typical for this time of year, but recent downpours have been notable for their intensity and impact. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the lives of more than 400 people in five countries, with Indonesia and Thailand the worst hit so ...