More than 150,000 people have evacuated to safer ground in eastern Philippine provinces as a typhoon approaches from the Pacific.

We swim in a sea of symbols: acronyms, emojis, icons of all sorts, etc. As old Confucius declared, “Signs and symbols rule the world, not words or laws.” ...

China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea has steadily increased, resulting in heightened tensions with Southeast Asian claimant states, particularly the Philippines, at the Second Thomas Shoal in ...