Proud to share this year’s Asia Research News magazine, which I oversaw as managing editor. Please have a look at the digital edition here. We highlight research from institutes throughout Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia in medicine, technology, space, society and environment. This year, we also introduced feature stories about ongoing research collaborations. Several are addressing major challenges, including food security in Asia and gender equality in Myanmar. Be sure to check out The patience of physicists, contributed by our friends at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, for an unusual look into life of Japanese scientists building a particle detector.