Asia

China consigned to the flames on Tuesday the body of former Premier Zhu Rongji, and lowered the national flag to mourn the no-nonsense reformer who died last week aged 97, as citizens recalled a bygone era and reflected on his complicated legacy.

The new sensation among some Chinese moviegoers is “Niu Lai,” an animated film whose characters appear to have been created with rudimentary 3D animation and have been described as “ugly” and “eerie.”

The shooting in the city of Zamboanga, the country’s second such incident in nearly two months, came less than 10 days after a high-profile school shooting in Thailand.

Rescuers in eastern Indonesia were combing through collapsed buildings Monday to find anyone who might still be trapped under rubble after an earthquake that killed at least 53 people.

SYDNEY — For much of her career, Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been the object of ridicule: a polarizing figure who was shut out of elected office for 18 years and inspired a derogatory song when she first entered politics in the 1990s.

For women like Latifa, there is no escape from abuse in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by U.N. Women on Wednesday.

Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas but the affected bodies successfully “handled” the incident, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Thursday.

“Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls and women are formally banned from secondary and higher education,” a UNESCO official said.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Tuesday suspended the issuance of permits to buy firearms and said existing licenses would be reviewed, days after a 14-year-old gunman killed nine people.