Jeon Je-young was among the hundreds of family members waiting for news from the authorities about Jeju Air Flight 2216, which crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. Tap the Play button at the top of any article to hear it read aloud. Officials said it could take up to 10 days to prepare the dead for transport, with the uncertainty adding to the shock and grief of relatives packed into an airport hall. South Korean officials on Monday began the slow, painstaking process of piecing together the many...

The Jeju Air plane that crashed in southwestern South Korea was a Boeing 737-800, a model that is used widely around the world. There are about 28,000 passenger planes in service globally, according to Cirium, an aviation data provider. About 15 percent, or 4,400, are Boeing 737-800s. The plane belongs to the company’s Next-Generation 737 family of jets, the precursor to the more modern 737 Max, which was involved in two fatal accidents more than five years ago that led to a global grounding of the Max fleet. Nearly 200...

You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Hun Manet, center, the Cambodian prime minister, studied in the United States and Britain. Any hopes that civil liberties would improve under his rule have been dashed. Tap the Play button at the top of any article to hear it read aloud. Hun Manet, who took over as prime minister last year, has followed in the steps of his father, who ran Cambodia for nearly 40 years. Until last year, most Cambodians had lived under only one leader. Hun...

The government of Malaysia announced on Friday that it had tentatively agreed to a deal with an American research organization to launch a new search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), which vanished in March 2014 and has not been found. The disappearance of MH370 – which fell off of radar screens less than an hour into taking off on March 8, 2014, and was never heard from again – remains one of the world’s most well-known and baffling unsolved mysteries. Multiple search and rescue operations throughout the Indian Ocean...

You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there. Tap the Play button at the top of any article to hear it read aloud. Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change. Want to stay updated on what’s happening...

The Pentagon’s annual Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China report, released on Wednesday, found that China is making progress toward its goal of military modernization despite persistent corruption problems. The report warned China has almost tripled its nuclear arsenal since 2020. According to the Pentagon, China now has over 600 operational nuclear warheads. The official U.S. estimate in 2020 was in the “low 200s.” China’s nuclear arsenal remains far smaller than those of the United States and Russia, which have over 5,500 warheads each.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday mocked the United States as a “breeding ground for delusion” because of the furor over drone sightings in New Jersey.

W “a dirty word” in Singapore—or so a past prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, once approvingly declared. What the city-state prizes, he explained, was not handouts, but self-reliance. Workers do not receive a state pension, but pay instead into individual retirement accounts. Health care, too, must be purchased from mandatory savings, not dispensed by a spendthrift state. There is no minimum wage, and no subsidies for staples such as rice or electricity. Oddly, though, there is one aspect of everyday life that almost no other governments get involved in but...