The world is divided into seven continents: Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia. However, depending on whom you ask, some would include Australia in Oceania ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

The International Monetary Fund revised up Asia's economic growth forecast on Thursday, but warned that renewed escalation in ...

The region has proved unexpectedly resilient, aided by a front-loading of exports, technology investment, and policy support.

In the Asia-Pacific region, home to more than 60% of the world’s population, cardiometabolic risk factors are on the rise and the CVD burden is heavy, but the area remains dramatically ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...