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Host clubs are booming in Japan. Some 21,000 hosts—well-dressed young men, often wearing make-up like K-pop stars—work at 900 such establishments. They pamper and flatter their female clients. Sex is ...

But Ms Nukenova’s murder has changed the equation. Last month Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president, approved legislation to stiffen penalties for such crimes. This case has reverberated widely. Mr ...

The resulting firestorm has highlighted the growing dissatisfaction among China’s young white-collar workers with the ...

A Chinese takeover of Kinmen might not take much longer, such is the disparity in power. The boat’s owner is not keen on mainlanders fishing and dredging sand in Taiwan’s waters. But, having witnessed ...

These guileful gulpers have responded to price increases by cutting spending more than the card-carrying Starbucks members who account for the majority of orders during the morning rush (there are 33m ...

Even though China’s leaders in Beijing claim Taiwan as their own territory, Taiwan’s government can still own property in corners of Hong Kong and Macau. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial House is one such ...

L ai Ching-te, who will take office as Taiwan’s president on May 20th, has ambitious plans for the island’s energy mix. He wants to push the proportion of renewable electricit ...

The line between countering harassment and provoking war is treacherously thin. Mr Lai needs to rally Taiwan’s people to prepare for their own defence without guarantees of any international support.

Missing in all this is an inconvenient fact. Most people in the workforce are not leaders and pretty much everyone reports to someone else. The most useful skill to have in your current job may well ...

H eat pumps, a type of reverse-refrigerator used for warming homes, are not the type of tech that gets most investors hot and bothered. They were, after all, invented in 1856. Harald Mix and Carl-Erik ...