Asia

Losing seam
As the federal government harrumphs, Australia moves away from coal

Both its states and its export markets have pledged drastic cuts in carbon emissions

Son set
Indonesian politics is becoming a family affair

Both the president’s son and his son-in-law are standing in regional elections

Hungry ungulates
A crash in tourism leaves Japanese deer ravenous for treats

The sacred deer of Nara miss their old diet of rice crackers

Banyan
Remembering Mishima, a writer of genius who committed seppuku

To add to the spectacle, he first staged a quixotic “coup”

Tiger balm
Covid-19 has ravaged economies all over the world—but not Taiwan’s

It has fended off the epidemic and is welcoming back firms that had decamped to China

The war within
Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority has become more politically fractured

But the island’s new nationalist government may change that

A city reels
Public order in Singapore has been shaken by a hand-drawn smiley face

An activist who stood in a public place with the offending image has been charged with illegal assembly

Banyan
Could Australia’s government have handled China better?

The Lucky Country is the object of an unusual amount of bile

Shell game
Flare-ups between India and Pakistan in Kashmir are getting fiercer

Artillery is often thundering along the “line of control”

A mountain to climb
Pakistan’s opposition takes on both the government and the army

But a new alliance does not seem to be landing many punches