In parts of East Asia, roughly half of adults or more view China’s power and influence as a major threat, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted between June and September 2023. How we ...

East Asia’s high-income democracies are facing a troubling trend: the future custodians of democracy are turning away from democratic politics. This democratic malaise has taken on different forms. In ...

How shared backgrounds among policy elites powered the economic rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

The Middle East has been simmering for quite some time. But what exactly is the situation in the individual countries of the region, from the Middle East to Central and South Asia? Are there countries ...

(RNS) — In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released Monday (June 17) by Pew Research Center.

In some parts of Asia, surgical masks became commonplace during SARS epidemic of 2002-2003. ... Americans are just learning what people in East Asia already know about masks.

East Asia’s new family portrait ... and single people accounted for 38%. In East Asia today, “the diversification of household structures is the story,” says Paul Chang, ...

How people in each place view male and female leadership. Japan has never had a female prime minister, and the lack of female representation in its politics has drawn increasing attention and activism ...

Jakarta: For millions of people across south-east Asia, their smart phone and Facebook are their only interaction with the people who govern them and shape their society. And that is unlikely to ...

(RNS) — In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released in June by Pew Research Center.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 ...

Archaeologists know from fossils and artifacts that modern humans have occupied Southeast Asia for 60,000 years and East Asia for 40,000 years. But there’s a lot left to untangle.