Every political system grows out of a historical process, except in rare cases when change is imposed from the top, which happened in Japan after it surrendered at the end of World War II or in Hong Kong during the decade before it reunited with the motherland in 1997.
East Asia is one of the most economically advanced regions in the world, but it has not witnessed sufficient economic cooperation between the region's countries.
Asia matters - for Europe. And Europe matters - for Asia. That is why the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was created in 1996.
Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice.
About 14 million major medical cases in the United States can be blamed on smoking, according to a study by health officials.
After an avalanche of data breaches, the national identity card system in the Republic of Korea has been raided so thoroughly that the government says it might have to issue new ID numbers to every citizen over 17 at a possible cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Despite poor relations between the governments of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a US charity is ramping up efforts against an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the DPRK, where it says it is making inroads in fighting the deadly disease.
Dozens of Japanese politicians, including newly appointed Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi, are due to pay homage at the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival that starts on Friday.
Australia said on Tuesday it will introduce a "premium investor visa" to give immigrants permanent residency after a year if they invest A$15 million ($13.1 million) in the country.
Pizza Hut Singapore has launched an investigation and apologized to a customer described as a "Pink Fat Lady" in a handwritten note on her receipt after she ordered pizza.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented the vast destruction in Gaza as he visited the area on Tuesday for the first time since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling the situation "beyond description" and urging a speedy reconstruction effort.
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