Tweeting from his prison cell, Pakistan’s cricketing hero and former prime minister Imran Khan described the country’s de facto leader, Field Marshal Asim Munir, as a mentally unstable, cruel dictator driven by
On 4 March 2026, a US military vessel torpedoed and sunk the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The illegal strike killed over 80 and injured over 30
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A decade after an international tribunal rejected China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, the waters remain defined less by the 2016 legal ruling than by an expanding network of islands,
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Japan’s newest export industry does not leave factories on cargo ships. It arrives by plane, fills hotels, spends in restaurants and shops, and is reshaping the country’s economic strategy. After decades of
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Developing Asia retained its position as the world’s largest developing-region destination for foreign direct investment in 2025, attracting $644 billion in capital as investment patterns within the region continued to shift. While
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A consortium including Microsoft and telecom startup Lightstorm has announced plans to build a new undersea cable system connecting India with Malaysia and Singapore, as global technology firms accelerate investment in artificial
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The Philippines’ plan to raise bilateral trade with Vietnam to US$10 billion by 2026 is facing mounting pressure from policy instability in Manila, where shifting rice import rules and tariff uncertainty are
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A large share of South-east Asia’s renewable energy infrastructure faces significant exposure to climate-related hazards by 2030, with about US$165 billion in assets at risk across the region, according to a report
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Asian equities tumbled on Wednesday while oil prices edged higher after a renewed escalation in hostilities between Iran and the United States, raising geopolitical uncertainty and intensifying market focus on upcoming U.S.
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Xi Jinping’s arrival in Pyongyang on 8 June, his first in nearly seven years, is precisely that kind of visit: the visit of a patron who suspects, with some justification, that his
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Global alternative asset manager Blackstone has successfully raised $13.1 billion for its latest Asia-focused private equity fund, surpassing its original target and marking the largest private equity fundraising effort in the firm’s
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