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The leaders of South Korea and Japan will meet with President Joe Biden at Maryland’s Camp David, a rural retreat for US presidents, on Friday. Biden is bringing together President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss how they can cooperate more on security matters. But that won’t be easy. The World’s Patrick Winn says simply
Many people in Thailand are asking, “What’s the point of having an election?” They had one three months ago and the winner was the country’s most progressive political party ever. But the party’s leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, is blocked from becoming prime minister because Thailand's military-backed senate believes that he’s unfit to rule. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports,
Built on Cambodian shores, the renovated facility is poised to serve as China's second-ever foreign military base — the first being in Djibouti. But don't expect Beijing to hold a parade. Chinese officials are downplaying the importance of the Ream Naval Base. The World's Patrick Winn reports that the Pentagon is watching as China completes a massive pier capable of servicing
Nearly half of all men in Malaysia are smokers. Previous public health efforts have had little effect on lowering rates. They’re now calling for an anti-tobacco policy that would phase out smoking by banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born in 2007 onward. The World's Patrick Winn speaks with the director of a Malaysia health policy institute about the effort.
Last year, an estimated 3,500 Rohingya Muslims boarded wooden boats and set off from Bangladesh, across hundreds of miles of dangerous waters in the Bay of Bengal, in search of starting new lives in Malaysia or Indonesia. Hundreds of them never made it. In collaboration with the Associated Press, we have the story of one family's tragic migration experience along one of Asia's