By Yoichiro Hamabe
By Bing Ling
By Yu-Jie Chen
By Jacques deLisle
By Peter Dutton
By Richard Bush
By Eungi Hong
By Railla Puno
By Hualing Fu
By Aaron Halegua and Yifu Dong
By Sejong Youn
By Matthew S. Erie
July 27, 2025-August 2, 2025
The “CEO abbot” of China’s Shaolin Temple faces criminal investigation; a former pro-democracy legislator in Macau is the first person arrested under that city’s national security law; the Tokyo High Court upholds fines and a prison term for the Dentsu Group’s big-rigging during the Tokyo Olympics; business groups in South Korea oppose pro-labor and pro-minority shareholder legislation; continued paralysis at Taiwan’s Constitutional Court leaves more than 350 petitions awaiting action.
