South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing advanced military technology with Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. through the so-called AUKUS partnership.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international order when he attends a meeting of the Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, where he is scheduled to give a keynote speech at the OECD ministerial meeting on Thursday.

Beijing’s state-controlled propaganda units are forging ties with Chinese tech companies, including the sister company of popular e-commerce firm Temu, in what researchers say is likely a coordinated effort to gather targeted data on foreign users that can be used to bolster misinformation campaigns and other state propaganda work abroad.

Japan, the United States and Australia are in the final phases of preparation to sign a document on a deal to promote joint research and development in the defense field at Thursday’s trilateral defense ministers meeting in Hawaii, a senior U.S. Defense Department official told The Yomiuri Shimbun and other media on Tuesday.

A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station. The craft and three astronauts landed in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday evening.

The U.S. Army is warning troops to beware of fake parking notices popping up in South Korea that direct drivers to malicious websites.

Thespians from Yokota High and Middle schools are putting on “Mean Girls Jr.,” a family-friendly version of Tina Fey’s popular Broadway musical “Mean Girls,” which is based on the 2004 movie of the same name.

Zhang Yongzhen, a Chinese scientist who sequenced the COVID-19 virus, has announced that he and his team have been allowed to continue their lab research. Zhang had been staging a sit-in protest outside his lab after he and his team were suddenly notified they had to leave their lab.

Grace Kang, her mother and grandmother were caught by Chinese border patrol officers while they were trying to flee North Korea to avoid starvation, she said. Kang was released by authorities and allowed to stay in China because of false identification her mother obtained.

A pair of environmental scientists testified in Hawaii federal court Tuesday that more than 2,000 gallons of jet fuel from a spill at a Navy fuel facility in late 2021 made its way into drinking water used by more than 90,000 residents living near Pearl Harbor.