As the federal government harrumphs, Australia moves away from coal

Both its states and its export markets have pledged drastic cuts in carbon emissions

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India’s super-rich are getting much richer

Even as the economy shrinks by a tenth

16h

Remembering Mishima, a writer of genius who committed seppuku

To add to the spectacle, he first staged a quixotic “coup”

16h

Indonesian politics is becoming a family affair

Both the president’s son and his son-in-law are standing in regional elections

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A crash in tourism leaves Japanese deer ravenous for treats

The sacred deer of Nara miss their old diet of rice crackers

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Covid-19 has ravaged economies all over the world—but not Taiwan’s

It has fended off the epidemic and is welcoming back firms that had decamped to China

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South Korea’s president wants to take politics out of prosecutions

But his reforms seem to be having the opposite effect

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Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority has become more politically fractured

But the island’s new nationalist government may change that

1w

Public order in Singapore has been shaken by a hand-drawn smiley face

An activist who stood in a public place with the offending image has been charged with illegal assembly

1w

Could Australia’s government have handled China better?

The Lucky Country is the object of an unusual amount of bile

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