World Affairs

  Once the undisputed king of global video gaming, the past two decades have seen Japanese dominance of the industry nosedive, and its glory days...

  South Korea’s most infamous murder case involving one of the country's first known serial killers. The notorious killer plagued the rural city of Hwaseong...

  This documentary takes a powerful and intimate look at the people who are living at little known, mysterious borderlines between two countries, how they...

Filipino journalist Atom Araullo has reported from some of the most extreme corners of the Philippines. This time, he heads out to find a nation...

Award-winning journalist and author Anjan Sundaram comes out of war-torn Africa and sets his sights on India. Though born in India, Anjan has not lived...

For years, news anchor Cheryl Marella has reported on Indonesia from the studios and seen her birth country go through dramatic change. Now, she heads...

  Japan is Asia's first industrialised economy, yet it ranks 121, below Angola on the Gender Gap Index. Journalist Yumi Araki returns to Japan to...

  Last year, the search for a vaccine for COVID-19 got underway worldwide, including here in Singapore at the Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme. The...

  In this three-part series, we discover historical ties between communities and with some of the most critical waterways in Asia. On this journey, we...

  Dogs, cats, babies, TikTok trends... we scroll through them mindlessly. But what if viral videos are doing more to our world than we realise?...

  Karmila, Devi and Thesa are an exception in Indonesia. Their job as female motorcycle stunt riders is to perform in the ‘Devil’s Barrel’, riding...

  This is the untold story of the 2019 Mount Everest tragedy, where 11 people died trying to scale the world’s highest summit. An image...

  Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 under a promise of autonomy for 50 years. That year, 59,250 babies were born in...

  The World Health Organization puts the number of deaths from climate change at 250,000 by 2050. Droughts, wildfires, floods, and catastrophic rains only lead...

  Climate change is more than a set of abstract projections and statistics. It is the daily reality for millions of people in Asia’s cities,...

  Scrabble, an English language game, is extraordinarily popular in Thailand, where thousands compete in the world’s largest event despite not speaking the language and...

  Journalist Joi Lee visits her motherland of South Korea to understand what it takes to keep this country pulsating, the fallout with South Koreans...

  Climate change is a “super wicked problem”. From the richest country in the world to a small island nation, no one is spared its...

  In just one day, a whole world can be transformed. An act of terror can bring neighbours to the edge of war; a religious...

  Can face recognition stop human trafficking? Has science advanced to the stage when forensic geneticists can accurately pinpoint what a ‘person of interest’ looks...

  It came without a warning and spreads like fire, the Novel Coronavirus – COVID-19, has claimed more than 300,000 lives to-date. CNA, Asia’s premier news platform...

  According to statistics, about eight million people go missing globally each year. Why do people disappear and vanish without a trace? Are they cases...

  China's trillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative is already changing the world in profound ways, and this year, CNA continues its coverage of this...

  There’s a dark side to the internet, and you probably don’t even know it exists. Go behind the positive veneer of social media, communication...