Tag Archives: Asia

The damning fact is that once I finish writing this column and you finish reading it, you, me and the rest of the world will likely return to our regularly scheduled stuff while we keep whistling towards a dead end – literally.

The country was the first to use lockdowns, and may well be the last. But as the social and economic costs become clearer, it is tweaking its tactics

Caste héritée de la féodalité, les célèbres guerriers finiront brisés par la modernisation de l’Empire nippon à la fin du XIXe siècle, raconte Die Welt.

North Korean cyber-attacks have stolen millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to fund the country's missile programmes, a UN report briefed to media says.

Djokovic faces deportation once more and is expected to challenge the decision by immigration minister Alex Hawke, though time is running out before the start of the Australian Open on Monday.

A crowd of women has marched through the Afghan capital calling for women’s rights to be respected and accusing Taliban authorities of covertly killing soldiers who served the former United States-backed government.

Sri Lanka plans to settle a debt for past oil imports from Iran by paying it off in tea, a government minister said.

China has reacted angrily to the US government’s diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics, as more countries said they would consider joining the protest over Beijing’s human rights record and New Zealand announced it would not send representatives to the Games. Chinese officials dismissed Washington’s boycott as a “posturing and …

The army general who seized power in Myanmar in February has been excluded from an annual summit of regional leaders later this month.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, China’s two global policy banks, the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China, have brought a stepwise increase in public finance for energy and infrastructure that has been filling major financial gaps and fostering economic growth in emerging market and developing countries.