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As the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) moves from law enforcement into energy and tech, the line between national security and corporate profit is blurring, undermining Vietnam’s claims to market-ec...
Few subjects today get more attention or generate more anxiety in the West than artificial intelligence, particularly the prospect of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a hypothetical system tha...
For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren’t just a fun peek into...
US President Donald Trump has signaled in an interview with the Wall Street Journal he is close to announcing his pick for the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. With inflation again increasing ami...
China now leads the world in nearly 90% of the “critical technologies” that can significantly boost or endanger national interests, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s lates...
TOKYO – As 2026 approaches, the Bank of Japan finds itself in the unenviable position of a central bank that cried wolf. Last week, BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda’s board made good on its talk of highe...
As 2025 draws to a close, Donald Trump’s return to the White House has produced a foreign policy that defies easy categorization. The president who campaigned against endless wars and promised an “Ame...
Rapidus, Japan’s effort to create a domestic chip-making alternative to TSMC and Samsung Foundry, is becoming a broad-based national industrial project of a kind Americans might dream about but that o...
The proposed Trump-class battleship, officially known as the BBG(X) guided missile battleship program, is planned to be the largest warship built by the United States since World War II. The entire pr...
When Asia Times published the analysis “Vingroup’s legal bullying doesn’t work in Germany like in Vietnam“ in November 2025, we pointed out that major conglomerates cannot easily use their...
During her recent visit to Beijing, International Monetary Fund head Kristalina Georgieva connected the dots between China and Japan in ways that Xi Jinping’s inner circle probably didn’t appreciate. ...
If US-China tensions were reduced in late October when the American and Chinese presidents finally met face-to-face in Busan, South Korea, more recent developments threaten to once again aggravate rel...
Europe has a lot on its plate these days. It’s facing a hostile Russia that has no intention of stopping with Ukraine. It’s dealing with tariffs and various other threats from an unpredictable and hos...
After a career making custom pieces for Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, Sorcha O’Raghallaigh brought her couture-grade embroidery to the Swedish pop star’s tour
We speak with mutual aid groups working on the ground about the extreme weather battering the strip and why, despite the ‘ceasefire’, conditions haven’t improved
We close out the year with six photo stories that encapsulate the past year and the seminal moments for our global Dazed Club community
From festivals to the tube, earplugs are everywhere – we spoke to Loop’s co-founder Maarten Bodewes about how they’re making earplugs as essential as sunglasses
The multidisciplinary creative is teaming up with Lenovo’s Make Space platform, which just launched an incubator tool for artistic collaboration
In 2026, for the first time in years, the outer planets begin forming rare positive alignments, welcoming us into a more constructive, forward-facing era. It’s a pivotal moment when the world remember...
‘It’s a movie we need in 2025’: Director Joachim Trier discusses his acclaimed follow-up to The Worst Person in the World, alongside stars Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve and Elle Fanning