Geographical areas
All the news of the day
01 November 2025
31 October 2025
30 October 2025
A year ago
Editor's choices
 
When North Korean workers raise their heads
by Andrea Ferrario
Informal employment is exploding in North Korea because of a drop in orders from China and lower wages. Tensions are also rising among the workers Kim supplies to China, fuelled by ever-increasing deductions from their wages to ensure revenue for the ...
| 30/10/2025
| NORTH KOREA
 
On being Jewish, the crucifix, and Nostra Aetate
by Sarah Bernstein*
Sarah Bernstein, executive director of the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue in Jerusalem, spoke at the Vatican. For her, Nostra Aetate, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council 60 years ago, teaches that dialogue must address the burning realities ...
| 29/10/2025
| VATICAN – ISRAEL
 
Hebei mourns Bishop Jia Zhiguo, a courageous pastor who survived the chains
by John Ai
Underground Bishop of Zhengding since 1981, he died this morning at the age of 90 in the bishop's residence where he had been confined. After he was jailed during the Cultural Revolution, he was tasked with rebuilding dioceses in several Chinese ...
| 29/10/2025
| CHINA
 
Jimmy Lai’s son urges freedom for his father two months since his show trial ended with no sentence yet
Sebastien Lai spoke to AsiaNews about his father’s ordeal. The 78-year-old Catholic businessman, who fought for democracy in Hong Kong, has been in prison since 2020. Given his poor health as a diabetic, “the fear for his life is very real.” ...
| 25/10/2025
| HONG KONG – ITALY
 
Technology and the peripheries: Leo XIV's 'Rerum Novarum'
Following Pope Francis's outreach with popular movements, his successor spoke about the new poverty of the digital age. The creativity generated by artificial intelligence and robotics has brought "great progress in many areas,” but “it ...
| 24/10/2025
| VATICAN
 
The latest lie, Thailand's Indigenous people blamed for climate change
by Lisa Bongiovanni
A new report by the Asia Centre highlights how fake news and phoney arguments have turned Thai public opinion against Indigenous groups (most of whom are not officially recognised by the Thai government), leading to the belief that their traditional ...
| 21/10/2025
| THAILAND
 
Tehran names a metro station after the Virgin Mary. Cardinal Mathieu sees it as a gaze of love for Iranians
by Card Dominique Joseph Mathieu*
Work has been completed on the Maryam-e Moghaddas metro station, located near the Armenian Church of Saint Sarkis. In addition to ornamental elements evoking Christian symbolism and connecting it to Muslim tradition, there will also be a 2.5-metre statue ...
| 20/10/2025
| IRAN
 
Mega-project with 900,000 prayer seats and towers near the Kaaba
After scaling NEOM and other infrastructure, Saudi authorities plan to develop Islam's holy city. The King Salman Gate project was unveiled this week, covering 12 million square metres and provide 300,000 jobs over 10 years. Commercial, cultural, ...
| 17/10/2025
| SAUDI ARABIA

 

Search in AsiaNews archive