Asia-Pacific

Matcha Challenges
An iced matcha latte is served at Asha Tea House on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Asia-Pacific

How much for matcha? Prices for the popular powdered tea soar due to global demand

SEPT. 16, 2025

China Fashion Week
Models wear creations by Wan Yue and Li Luyi during the SS2026 China Fashion Week in Beijing, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Asia-Pacific

China Fashion Week highlights autumn creations in photos

SEPT. 12, 2025

Japan Women’s Sumo Photo Gallery
Wrestlers train during a practice session at a sumo camp in Tottori Johoku High School in Tottori, Japan, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Asia-Pacific

Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world

SEPT. 11, 2025

China US Digital Cage
Security cameras are seen by a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Asia-Pacific

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

SEPT. 9, 2025

APTOPIX China Parade
Military personnel take part in a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Asia-Pacific

China displays its military strength in a parade on the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII

SEPT. 3, 2025

China Parade WWII Anniversary
Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran is helped as he meets reporters at the memorial of the September 18th History Museum in Shenyang, northeastern China's Liaoning province, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Asia-Pacific

China’s military parade is a show of strength from a country devastated in World War II

SEPT. 2, 2025

Vietnam Daily Life
Vietnam's national flag displayed as the nation celebrating Vietnam's 80th National Day in Hanoi, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Asia-Pacific

Photos of Vietnam preparing to celebrate 80th National Day

AUG. 29, 2025

Sri Lanka Mass Graves
Magistrate Amalavalan Anandarajah, center, inspects a mass grave site in Chemmani, Sri Lanka, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Asia-Pacific

A wartime mass grave in Sri Lanka yields a baby bottle, children’s clothes and 141 skeletons

AUG. 21, 2025

APTOPIX China Humanoid Robot Games
A robot rehearses the 100m race before the opening ceremony of The World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Asia-Pacific

Beijing’s first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop and martial arts

AUG. 14, 2025

Vietnam Tiger Economy
A man walks past a Vietnamese flag painted on a wall in Hanoi, Vietnam on August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Asia-Pacific

Vietnam wants to be the next Asian tiger and it’s overhauling its economy to make it happen

AUG. 13, 2025

Climate Pakistan Floods Singer
Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai, second from right, performs with her team members at a village in Umerkot, a district of Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Asia-Pacific

Pakistani musicians use folk songs and rap to raise climate change awareness

AUG. 6, 2025

India VinFast
A VinFast VF 7 electric vehicle model is seen at the plant in Thoothukudi, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool)

Asia-Pacific

Vietnam automaker VinFast opens factory in India, eyeing growth in Asia

AUG. 4, 2025

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