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Coverage · May · 2026 · Asia · 416 articles

India's Energy Bills Rise While Its Crypto Doors Swing Open — A Tale of Two Economic Signals

Seoul's Parallel Tracks: AI Companions for the Elderly and a Diplomatic Thaw with Tokyo

Beijing's Dual Track: Surveillance Exports and Trade Threats Expose the Logic of Chinese State Capitalism

Iranian Ballistic Missile Debris Hits Kuwait Base; Five U.S. Servicemembers Reportedly Wounded

Explosion at Myanmar Warehouse Kills Dozens as Civil War Intensifies in Shan State

Pentagon Rewrites Counter-Drone Playbook After Ukraine Battlefield Lessons

Nepal PM's border claim revives a dormant territorial dispute with India

Belarus Holds the Line While Iran Rebuilds: Two Flashpoints, One Geopolitical Signal

China Expels NYT Reporter After Presidential Interview as Taiwan Press Freedom Tensions Simmer

China Trade Warning Meets Domestic Mine Tragedy as Beijing Navigates Dual Pressures

Taiwan levies first carbon charges on big emitters as weekend payment deadline looms

China's Digital Yuan Finds Its Clearinghouse

China's Regulatory Discipline and the West's Imagination Problem

India Cuts Fuel Export Duties: What the Policy Shift Signals for Regional Energy Markets

Bihar's welfare targeting pivot shows how India's states are building the data architecture of social policy

Hegseth's Indo-Pacific Buildup Meets Beijing's Stability Appeal as US-China Tensions Test Regional Equilibrium

Markets Bet on US-China Tariff Agreement, but Taiwan Question Looms

Hegseth's Singapore signal: India as anchor, China as counterweight

Japan's Shrinking Cities: Census Data Exposes a Demographic Reckoning Decades in the Making

Godzilla El Niño Threatens to Upend Asian Food Security

Turkey and Japan Signal Joint Ambitions in Drone Development

China's Archaeology Wars: Discovery, Legitimacy, and the Price of Graft

China's AI Governance Gambit and the South China Sea Test

Beijing embeds digital yuan into fiscal machinery as tariff pressure mounts

Beijing's Dual Pressure Test: Regulatory Cleanup and the Quiet Crisis at China's State Automakers

Delhi Police Sweep Nabs Nine in ISI-Linked Terror Probe, Seizes Arms Cache

Delhi Police Dismantle Suspected ISI-Linked Cell, Seize Arms Cache

Hegseth Warns of China’s 'Historic Military Buildup' as Pacific Balance Shifts

Myanmar's military president reaches New Delhi as India navigates a delicate balancing act

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Drive Oil to $160 Forecast as Japan Imports Plunge

India's Courts Draw a Line on Platform Accountability: Google Pays Damages as Delhi Upholds Digital Brand Rights

India's Regulatory Turn: Courts and Watchdogs Tighten the Reins on Big Tech

Hegseth's Shangri-La Warning: US Sounds Alarm on China Without Reaching for the Trigger

Shangri-La Dialogue Meets Hormuz Crisis: Asia's Defense and Energy Fault Lines Converge

China Sentences Former Shaolin Temple Abbot to 24 Years for Embezzlement and Bribery

Romania Drone Incident Tests NATO's Article 5 Red Lines

Vietnam's To Lam charts a middle path at the Shangri-La Dialogue

Pakistan's No: Why Trump's Abraham Accords Pitch Faces a Harder Sell Than the Gulf

China Sentences Former Shaolin Temple Head to 24 Years

MediaTek's Dual-Foundry Bet Reshapes the Advanced Packaging Race

Hormuz at the Edge: Military Strikes, Diplomatic Hopes, and the Oil Market's $160 Question

Beijing's Dual Signal: Diplomacy in New York, Infrastructure Spree at Home

The Delhi Gymkhana controversy: when elite clubs become political flashpoints

Seoul's Dual Export Push: Medical Tourism and Crypto Infrastructure Converge

OKX and Korean Brokerage Buy Into Coinone as Seoul Signals Crypto Opening

Delhi High Court Refuses to Restore Cockroach Janta Party’s X Account

Iran's Pezeshkian Strengthens Ties With Malaysia and Pakistan in Eid Diplomatic Push

Kakao Strike Threat Tests South Korea's Gig-Economy Labor Awakening

AI reshapes finance careers as Hong Kong and Singapore face graduate jobs crunch

Innovent Biologics' $10.5bn Pfizer Deal Tests the Limits of US-China Pharma Cooperation

Japan's Naphtha Crunch: How Shifting Energy Flows Are Stress-Testing Tokyo's Petrochemical Future

Taiwan's Budget Travellers Are Rewriting Japan's Tourism Map

India's chemical trade under pressure as West Asia conflict reshapes global supply chains

Siddaramaiah Quits: Karnataka Congress Faces a Succession Crisis at the Worst Possible Time

Vietnam's To Lam Makes First ASEAN Visit as Hanoi Reshapes Regional Diplomacy

China's AI Token Gambit, Robot IDs, and the End of the Auto Golden Era

Drone Dominance and the New Architecture of Geopolitical Dependency

Samsung Trio Backs Into Crypto With $408 Million Dunamu Stake as Kakao Exits

DJI Releases Independent Security Audit as US Drone Ban Push Intensifies

Trump Imagery Is Spreading Through Asia By Unconventional Routes — And Washington May Be Watching

Japan strengthens regional alliances as defense modernization accelerates

Siddaramaiah Quits: Karnataka's Congress Faces Post-Utopia Reckoning

Jensen Huang Board Appointment at Tsinghua University: Geopolitical Chess or Corporate Routine

Three Signals From Beijing's Industrial Front: NIO's Warning, 3M's PFAS Liability, and a Dutch Warship Turned Back

YouTube's AI Content Crackdown Raises Stakes for Creators and Platform Accountability

Nvidia's Huang Takes a Seat at Tsinghua While Betting $150 Billion on Taiwan

EU Auditors in India Test the Limits of Visa Outsourcing Governance

Nvidia's Taiwan Bet and the AI Industry's Convenient Recalibration

The Assembly Line Gap: How China Left the Global Auto Industry Behind

The Gospel According to Trump: How a Buffalo Became Bangladesh's Most Famous Animal

Taiwan's Stock Market Hits Record High as AI Boom Reshapes Asia's Financial Landscape

India's AI-Generated Political Spectacle and the Heat Wave Democracy Cannot Ignore

Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit: 'Open to Everybody' and the Iran Deal Calculus

Japan's Biggest Intelligence Overhaul Since WWII: What the New Spy Agency Means for Asia's Security Architecture

China's Carbon Accounting Revision and the Talent Wall: Two Signals, One Trajectory

The Multipolar Myth Is Dead. India Is Still Figuring Out What Comes Next.

The Multipolar Myth: What Vijay Gokhale's Framework Tells Us About India's Strategic Crossroads

China's Tech Ambitions Meet Labour Market Reality Check

India's Extreme Heat Exposes Structural Fault Lines as Death Toll Mounts in Telangana