The Latest Breaking News from Asia

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PC Gamer · Aug 20, 2025

Tesla Begins Testing FSD In This Asian Country While Facing Lawsuits Back Home

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has begun testing its FSD or Full Self-Driving system in countries outside the U.S. amid the fiercely competitive autonomous driving race.

Benzinga · Aug 20, 2025

India’s Modi meets China’s top diplomat Wang as Asian powers rebuild ties

Ties between the two nuclear-armed Asian powers have made ‘steady progress’, India’s PM Modi says.

Al Jazeera · Aug 19, 2025

Max Dowman: Mikel Arteta confirms Arsenal starlet will be considered for Premier League minutes

Young talent dazzled on pre-season tour of Asia

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2025

A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolved

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.

LiveScience · Aug 15, 2025

'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.

LiveScience · Aug 15, 2025

At 23, she set out to modernize the spice trade. Now she’s navigating Trump’s tariffs

Sana Javeri Kadri built a successful spice company by sourcing directly from south Asian producers. But new tariffs threaten her business model

The Guardian - US · Aug 15, 2025

Japan’s shifting memory of the second world war is raising fears of renewed militarism

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that risks renewed Japanese militarism, an outcome that would complicate politics across east Asia.

The Conversation · Aug 15, 2025

Lone piper plays at Edinburgh Castle to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day

Stirling Castle and the Kelpies are among the sites around the UK set to be lit up on Friday evening to commemorate the end of the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2025

Asian shares mostly gain after uptick in inflation pulls US stocks lower

Asian are mostly higher after most stocks on Wall Street fell following a disappointing report that said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists had expected

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025