Every Friday, we recap highlights of the news from China. The Dalai Lama’s succession dominated headlines in recent days, ...

The Roman Catholic Church has chosen an American-born cardinal as its new pope, and he has taken the name Leo XIV. Many of ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

Mitsui For the Herald Will the church die? I say “no.”  But it will be much smaller with committed people. On December 7th,1941, without ...

Travel guides can tell you a lot about a country. But locals often have stories and facts you won’t find anywhere else.

Disputed take-over of Colombo Dockyard by Mazagon The ruling National People’s Power (NPP) and the parliamentary Opposition ...

The Japanese post-outage example shows that civic trust is a two-way street. Citizens who act honourably encourage ...

Israel shares increasingly fewer values with the leftist West, which in its bid to destroy itself has abandoned its history, culture, uniqueness and belief in itself. Opinion.

On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God.

While a growing number of Australians are moving away from organised religion, some people like Samantha Raabe are bucking ...

Singaporeans love travelling to Japan. In 2023, over half a million Singaporeans went to Japan. A then-record, before 2024 smashed that mark by quite a bit, with 691,100 Singaporeans making the ...

An Iranian missile hit the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, wounding people and causing “extensive damage,” the medical facility said. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows ...