The most shocking thing about Rio Tinto Group’s demolition of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in Australia’s remote Pilbara region is how commonplace it was. The Pilbara is source of about half of the world’s traded iron ore, worth about $65 billion a year. It’s also a crucial area of world heritage, home to the world’s largest collection of art from ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping has doubled down on China’s policies towards Uighurs in the country’s western Xinjiang region despite international condemnation. “Facts prove that the party’s policies on Xinjiang in the new era are completely correct and must be adhered to in the long term,” the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi as saying during a work meeting held ...

Bloomberg South Korea invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to participate in a joint probe into the fatal shooting of one of its nationals north of the border, after the regime warned South Korea over its maritime search for the body. North Korea should be “open-minded” towards investigating the incident as soon as possible, given the differences between the two ...