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Asia31 Jul

Yen back at 160 after overnight move to 158

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia31 Jul

Samsung unit and Erex bet biomass can anchor Japan's AI power load

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia31 Jul

Eleven governments warn North Korean IT workers are funding Pyongyang's arsenal, as Pyongyang calls Korea clash a 'matter of timing'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia31 Jul

India accuses Pakistan of "ruthless force" in PoK as CBI arrests, monsoon halfway-mark and a comeback CWG medal round out the wire

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia30 Jul

SpaceX Walls Off China as Teleperformance Walks In: Two Supply-Chain Signals From the Same 24 Hours

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 Jul

Takaichi reaches for the food-tax lever as Japan’s reverse-import car count hits a record

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia30 Jul

Japanese automakers just broke their own record for shipping foreign-built cars back home

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 Jul

Nikkei: Japanese carmakers set first-half 'reverse import' record on overseas production

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia30 Jul

Tokyo steps back into the yen market as Beijing rotates its top Asia hand

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 Jul

Apple posts record June quarter on China sales as Beijing pivots to 'expand' trade ties

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 Jul

China's Industrial State Meets Washington's New Import Wall

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 Jul

Two SCMP stories, one subsea front: reading the US-China tech contest on 29 July 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 Jul

Patriots for Kyiv, posturing on Tehran: two tracks in one 24-minute window

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 Jul

China's AI rule-shaping push meets a chip-export squeeze: the next contest over who writes the operating manual

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 Jul

The cheap-model race: how China's AI and EV stack is rewriting the terms of US techno-industrial competition

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia29 Jul

Jakarta's resource turn meets a Chinese balance sheet already inside the smelters

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia28 Jul

Tokyo's $2.3 trillion blueprint meets a wary boardroom

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia28 Jul

Takaichi's stimulus bet meets a bond market losing patience

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia28 Jul

Thailand's top parts supplier CEO tells industry: partner with Chinese EV makers, or fall behind

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia28 Jul

KOSPI trading halted after a slide past seven percent in early 28 July 2026 deals

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia28 Jul

India curtailed 8,133 GWh of solar in a quarter. The grid, not the panels, is now the bottleneck

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia28 Jul

Bangladesh's gas shock reaches the garment line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Warjiyo's exit hands Indonesia a central bank in search of a hand

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Takaichi defends 370 trillion yen package, but the bond market is not yet buying it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Takaichi defends 370 trillion yen growth drive as market jitters mount

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia27 Jul

Singapore and Tokyo Tighten in the Same Week, and the Yen Tells You Why

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 Jul

Yen slide and a $9,000 fridge: Japan squeezes between price pressures and heat

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Japan's 'human fridge' lands as record summers rewrite the office wardrobe

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Beijing pushes back on tariffs, warns on AI probes, frames BRICS as ready for a settlement currency

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Yen's slide revives BOJ tightening bets as luxury houses reprice Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Yen at four-decade low forces BOJ timing back into focus

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia26 Jul

Samsung, SK and Nvidia put $700bn on the US-Korea table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia26 Jul

Reading the Indian Express's gold-import thesis against the wire evidence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia26 Jul

India's protest muscle and the security state listening in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

Pradhan steps down after ten days of student protests, but the apology demand stays on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

China's Five Largest Cleaning-Robot Makers Now Hold About 70% of Global Sales, Nikkei Says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia25 Jul

Five Chinese firms now hold 70 percent of the world's cleaning-robot market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

Cleaning Robots, Capital Walls, and a Soil Cave-In: Three Snapshots of a Recalibrating China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia25 Jul

Assam's July flood cycle deepens as The Indian Press frames the season as unprecedented

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump's tariff wave lands on Beijing and 50-plus capitals at once

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump warns Beijing and Moscow off Iran supply chain, in three words

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump Truth Social post ties Xi and Putin to Iran non-proliferation in a single statement; sourcing runs through one Telegram relay chain

Venkataraman · asia · 9 min
Asia24 Jul

Lavrov and Rubio meet in Manila, with Ukraine at the top of an agenda neither side has yet defined

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia24 Jul

Japan's factories hold firm, its market slides: a single-day split on AI capex

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Tehran Frames the SCO as a Priority Venue as Araghchi Meets Belarus Counterpart in Bishkek

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Beijing bets on orbital data centres as Trump unleashes a fresh tariff wave

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 Jul

ASEAN convenes in Manila while Marcos reaches for a China reset

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Jul

South Korea's chip-led 0.6% print lands as Beijing tells Manila the ties are at a crossroads

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Jul

India eases export e-commerce rules in a calibrated win for Amazon, on a day when Italian unions also closed a chapter

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 Jul

China steps into the Brazil tariff fight, and Trump's AI rhetoric follows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Magnitude-5.0 quake hits Pu'er in Yunnan as southwest China fault lines stay active

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

How Washington's China anxiety became the loudest story in town

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Vietnam's factory elite take to the private skies

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Wangchuk hospitalised as Delhi weighs plastic banknotes: a quiet week that says a lot about India's two parallel crises

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Wangchuk hospitalised as India's court weighs his detention; in parallel, New Delhi weighs the rupee itself

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Seven Years to Quit, Seven Months to Start: The Vietnam Parallel Haunting Trump's Iran Calculus

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

US-Iran Tensions Throw a Shadow Over Southeast Asia's Diplomatic Calendar

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

US blockade of Iranian shipping puts Russia and China on notice

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Three months after declaring Iran's missile program destroyed, Washington is running a $37.5bn blockade it says will finish the job

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington reaches for the sanctions lever as US-Chinese AI models converge

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington and Beijing reopen the AI conversation, on September's terms

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

TSMC's 10% price signal: the bill for the AI build-out lands on chip buyers

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Saboteur detained at Tyumen defence plant as Russian war economy faces internal strain

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A Trump-Xi thaw: theatre, tariffs, or something else

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Trump Signals China Will Not Face Consequences Over Alleged Election-Data Hack as Pro-Trump MAGA Inc. Builds Record $400M War Chest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands as Beijing punishes an airline and shrugs off US election-hack allegations

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager as chip-secrets fight with Beijing sharpens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Takaichi puts growth back at the center of Japan's economic map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan's first homegrown SAR satellite is in orbit. The harder part is what comes next

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan to throttle mobile internet in civil-defence drills as cross-strait pressure builds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan rehearses a severed link, and reads its own market for signals

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Taipei's civil-defence reset meets a Hong Kong courtroom

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lanka turns its air force on dengue: drones map the rooftops where mosquitoes breed

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lanka's military takes to the air over Colombo as dengue outbreak hits near-decade high

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lankans rally outside US embassy in solidarity with Iran school attack victims

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Leverage, not chips: the unwind that just cost Seoul $1.3 trillion

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

South Korea probes cyber breach at state-run diplomatic academy as GDP forecast slips

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi High Court moves Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung to Medanta as Ladakh row turns medical

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast enters its second week as Ladakh climate campaigner stays under Delhi hospital care

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Singapore bets on robots and rehab gyms as its workforce tops 60

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

SBI Funds Management lists at 7% premium, testing depth of India's retail bid for state-linked finance

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Saudi Arabia's enriched-uranium pivot and what Washington is taking off the table

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington greenlights Saudi enrichment, quietly skipping the non-proliferation script

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Russia Tops Europe’s Beer Output as Sanctions Reshape the Hops Trade

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Russia tops European beer production league for the first time, displacing Germany

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Rubio lands in Manila as Washington pivots the Indo-Pacific pitch toward students, not soldiers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Rizap takes its chocoZAP budget gym concept to Hong Kong

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A delivery rider takes China's top literary prize, and the cultural commissars cheer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Punjab farmers seal the border to Delhi over an India-US trade pact, and ask what was signed in their name

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Putin Confirms Shenzhen APEC Attendance, Setting Up First Trump–Putin Sit-Down on Chinese Soil

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Manila sounds the alarm over an ASEAN pulled apart

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Philippine sailor wounded as China and Manila trade accusations near Second Thomas Shoal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan courts Tehran, but the war drums keep beating

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan-Kuwait defence talks put the Gulf's quiet security architecture back on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan asks Washington for $10 billion loan as rupee defence runs out of road

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan's $10bn ask: a backstop is not a bailout, and Washington knows the difference

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan walks the line between Tehran and Washington as Gulf tensions reopen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Old markets, old songs: India's commercial antiquity is doing the work heritage policy cannot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A Japan-Singapore fund buys into a German travel app, and quietly into a corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

New York Life's Japan push tests whether foreign capital can still outbid Tokyo's domestic giants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Nexon's ARC Raiders hits but the stock won't move: a South Korea-Japan gaming giant caught between two markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Inside the NDA's Delhi huddle: hard lines on NEET, softer signals on the INDIA bloc

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Food orders, fundraisers and the long tail of India's NEET-UG paper leak

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Narita's cargo revamp: Japan's quiet bet on a regional hub it once let slip away

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Four Indian crew killed as MV Golden Leo comes under attack leaving Odesa

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Moonshot AI's Hong Kong listing puts a Chinese model lab on the global capital stage

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Moomoo's Japan gambit: a Chinese broker walks into a regulatory test

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Maruti's second price hike in two months lands in a year India is quietly rewriting the rules of its own currency

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Manila Sounds the Alarm on ASEAN Cohesion as Great-Power Pull Hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Maharashtra farmer leaders detained in Delhi as protest year opens with a familiar choreography

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Anwar tightens the reins as Malaysia redrafts the rules for its digital street

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Lee's apartment sale and the loan curb South Korea wants to write

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Lavrov lands in Manila as Moscow courts ASEAN's non-aligned middle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Lavrov lands in Manila: Russia returns to ASEAN's table at a delicate moment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan Rewrites the Rulebook for Its Boardrooms

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Tokyo posts a justice minister in Kyiv: a small Japanese footprint in a long war

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan revives the passenger-jet dream, three years after SpaceJet's quiet end

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Jakarta tilts toward Beijing's AI body as Brussels lands in Beijing with a long agenda

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan's AnimeGen bets open weights against US compute giants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A live-fire drill off Okinotori tests the line between protest and presence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's women take one gold and a louder seat at the taekwondo table

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran sends its interior minister to mediators as Iran-US interim deal hangs by a thread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan-mediated talks open as Tehran weighs response to U.S. base strike

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran reaches for mediators in Pakistan as the Gulf temperature climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Pakistan-Iran security track tightens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as mediators race to revive the US-Iran interim deal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's science minister lands in Islamabad for ECO summit as Tehran widens its regional science diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A Punjabi river, a Singapore cell: two stories from a wider Indian diaspora reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Indonesia's village truck fleet plan hands Mitsubishi Fuso and Tata Motors a long order book

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's three-front squeeze: capital gains, rate-cut delay, and the Tehran shadow

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

India's underground crisis and the surface politics of infrastructure neglect

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Shreyas Iyer's audition begins: India hand the keys to Harare

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India summons Russian envoy as four sailors die in strike off Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India clears Takeda's dengue shot, ending a decade of regulatory drift

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Student march on India's Parliament turns violent as education-reform protests escalate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Modi government opens monsoon session flush with Bengal win, scrambling opposition

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India's private space sector is hiring away the talent ISRO built

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Monsoon pounds north India while Punjab farmers march on Delhi over US trade pact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Three disasters, one July morning: India confronts a tunnel collapse, a train derailment and a courtroom brawl

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India and Moldova take up UNSC reform and counter-terror cooperation in Chisinau talks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Monsoon kills 25 in northern India as Delhi weighs a plastic-banknote future

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India's Monsoon Parliament: Protest, Adjournment, and the Question of an OBC Count

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Tens of thousands march on parliament as India's Gen Z tests Modi's street authority

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Gen Z marches on India's parliament as Modi demands a 'foolproof' exam system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India arrives in Glasgow with a pointed question attached

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's gold market holds its breath as wedding-season demand meets a record domestic rally

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 'material' partnerships: what the New Delhi-Tokyo axis is really after

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

On Day 24 of the Jantar Mantar sit-in, India's protest politics meets its own limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Inside the 'Cockroach' march on India's parliament

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 'cockroach' protesters dig in after Delhi clashes as education ministry crisis enters second day

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Hydrogen on the long route: why India is the test case for diesel's replacement

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 1991 reform anniversary lands as a domestic governance story, not a foreign-policy parable

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Houthi blockade turns two Saudi crude tankers back in the Red Sea

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

How Hongqi's ultra-luxury sedan beat Rolls-Royce in China, and what that signals about patriotic consumption

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou as China's auto war reshapes who flinches first

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Hegseth puts the price tag at $37.5 billion and tells a press conference that Iran is in the worst position it has ever been in

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Hegseth tells senators Beijing and Moscow are helping Tehran fight, and the read from Beijing and Moscow is that Washington is helping itself

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Gujarat's dropout surge lands the state in the education ministry's 'red zone' as Delhi moves on Lal Dora titles and a J&K bail order clears the way for release

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Glasgow 2026 and the question India has stopped asking itself

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Twenty-seven years on, Falun Gong practitioners stage a quiet vigil on the Hudson

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Another ceasefire push tests Egypt's mediation as mutual strikes grind on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Doha, Cairo and Islamabad float a ten-day ceasefire. Trump says no. Tehran stays quiet.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi seals its border and detains farmer leaders on the eve of a trade-deal protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Lathicharged in Lutyens' Delhi: what a student protest says about Modi's education compact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A Lodhi Colony fire and a Ramlila Maidan refusal: two Delhi stories, one political fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Tens of thousands march on Parliament as Delhi police clear agitators

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Front pages in lockstep: how Indian newspapers framed the Delhi police crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

BJP–Opposition standoff over Delhi police powers turns into a Parliament sit-in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Two infrastructure failures, one North Indian morning: a derailed freight train outside Delhi and a landslide that trapped workers inside a Sikkim tunnel

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi High Court pulls back from policing protest allegations, leaving CJP case in limbo

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi police action against CJP protesters draws BJP and Congress to the same hospital ward

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi Police Caught Flat-Footed as CJP Protest Swells Beyond Containment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Two children shot in Daraa as Israeli aircraft circle Syria's Central Governorate

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Cool Japan Fund's runway runs out as METI weighs an exit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A Cleveland warehouse and the quiet rewriting of the US–China auto supply map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A hunger strike, a name written to provoke, and the question of who gets the microphone in New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Hunger strike, barricades, and a party called Cockroach: what New Delhi's protest theatre reveals about opposition paralysis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's Cockroach Party takes the protest pitch seriously enough that the Supreme Court has now had to rule on what counts as free speech

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China flexes a fully domestic AI data centre, and suspends an aviation operator after a Beijing tower strike

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

A burger, a Parliament protest, and the BJP's message discipline problem

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Burger, protest, and a spokesman: a small Indian party tries to police its own image

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing's three-front pressure test: how a 1-gigawatt domestic AI build reshapes the maritime chessboard

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing turns up the heat on three fronts at once: Manila, Taipei, and the silicon stack

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China's transport push: a network that wants to be a system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China's AI bottleneck meets its pork glut: two signs of a single supply story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing's industrial stack is closing ranks: rare earths, chips, EVs and the new shape of friction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing trims Iranian crude as Treasury claims credit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China is sitting on the world's oil market, and Riyadh knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

China's pig towers and the paradox of an economy that floods the world

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China's quiet oil diet: why crude markets stopped panicking

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

China races to harden its AI stack as export curbs loom

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China's AI race hits a demand wall before the model leaves the lab

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Bessent Floats Sanctions on Chinese Open AI Models, Calling IP Theft a Trade-Line Item

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing tower crash, aviation licence freeze and a tariff-shaped week: parsing the China file from 21 July 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia21 Jul

Ayungin Shoal, Round Two: Beijing and Manila Trade Envoys After a Tuesday Standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

The river is still rising: Assam’s half-century flood and the monsoon the planners never modelled for

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN foreign ministers raise alarm over West Asia escalation, urge restraint

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN's Middle East alarm: a Southeast Asian bloc tries to read a fast-moving map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN presses US and Iran to halt a war the bloc never asked for

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

ASML locks in talent as Sri Lanka turns to military drones for a public-health crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

South Korea joins evacuation chorus from West Asia as regional escalation talk outruns the evidence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Rubio puts a clock on Venezuela's transition: early August, the 2015 Assembly, and the levers Washington will hold

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Two delegations, one deficit: how America is losing the China conversation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

America is running out of China hands, and the trip wires are starting to show

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

US scrambles F-35s and F-16s from European bases as Washington edges back toward open war with Iran

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A Tokyo rally for Tehran: how Japan's Iran solidarity scene maps onto a wider Asian fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Spain's second World Cup, by way of Delhi: how a Sunday final in the subcontinent's viewing economy ended at Lusail

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast becomes a standoff as Ladakh's federal question hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Ladakh march hits Delhi as three demands meet a quiet state response

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Leh-Delhi march reaches the capital as Ladakh's autonomy fight enters a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk pushes to leave hospital, join Delhi march on day 23 of climate fast

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Sindhu's Japan Open title and a shrinking Yamuna: two Indian stories, one week, and the questions underneath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Paddles and a rusting hull: another Second Thomas Shoal face-off tests the Sino-Philippine line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Settler raid on Sebastia lands inside a UNESCO vote on Palestine

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Second Thomas Shoal clash exposes the brittle arithmetic of Manila's China posture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A wooden bolt and a question of sea power: the Second Thomas Shoal clash, 20 July 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Second Thomas Shoal, again: what a fresh Philippines-China clash says about Manila's room to manoeuvre

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

The $5 million that bought NVIDIA its runway

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Seoul's AI ETF stumble leaves a zombie product in its wake

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Russia strikes Turkish cargo ship GOLDEN LEO off Odessa, killing five

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Rohit Sharma's 138 answers the doubters, but India's World Cup 2027 picture stays unsettled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

War and refineries tighten the diesel market as stockpiles hit multi-year lows

Venkataraman · asia · 8 min
Asia20 Jul

The mule economy: how India's account holders became the first link in the cyber-fraud chain

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Putin's Pyongyang praise, on Polymarket: a war of words about a war already running

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Manila names a wooden baton: the shoal incident, in plain words

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Nvidia's Tokyo sweep: what Jensen Huang actually bought on his Japan tour

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A quad bike on a grain ship: the Odessa mystery that won't stay quiet

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Nolan's Odyssey opens to a record global weekend as India weighs deeper ties with Tehran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Two hundred detained in Mumbai as student NEET protests spill into a national question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Moscow region reels from one of the largest Ukrainian drone barrages of the war

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Kimi K3 is the first Chinese model that Western AI users had to wait for

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi's youth test: how a Delhi protest became an opposition rallying point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Kyushu's semiconductor build-out draws Japan's financial giants into the chip corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A quake in Kermanshah, a rally in Tokyo: two scenes from Iran's long July

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Ranaut's Stand Against Opposition Disruption Frames a BJP Confidence Play in the Monsoon Session

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Japan's GPIF rumour moves a yen that policy couldn't

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Japan's imperial reform stops at the throne: female succession left out of the fix

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Tokyo's quiet tilt: why a Japan-India joint statement rattled Islamabad

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A leather jacket, a charity auction, and the strange new market for tech celebrity

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iraq's $60bn Hormuz Bypass Sits Between a US Strike on Iran and a Blockaded Strait

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Mediators pitch a 10-day Iran-US strike pause to revive the interim nuclear deal

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's three-front opening: Pakistan visit, prisoner denial, and a Yemen air corridor push

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's second Hormuz test, and the $85 barrel that may not last

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran keeps the Houthi line open: what Momeni's Islamabad trip tells us about Iran's regional perimeter

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran and Islamabad tighten interior-ministerial channel

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's man in Islamabad: Momeni visit puts Iran-Pakistan security coordination on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Iran and Pakistan reset the security dial

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran sends its interior minister to Islamabad with a message from Pezeshkian

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran searches for partners beyond the Gulf

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad, and the security conversation that won't go away

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Infantino floats US-China World Cup pairing as FIFA positions itself as 'happiness provider'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

India's digital-payments diplomacy is outrunning its protest-rights debate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's youth-led protest wave tests Modi's coalition arithmetic ahead of state polls

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Stone-pelting video puts India’s hydrogen-train rollout under scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's infrastructure machine keeps running. Its equity tax holiday does not.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India tells its citizens to leave Iran as US strikes enter a ninth night

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia20 Jul

India holds the line on three fronts as July ends: cricket, coal, and capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Monsoon deaths climb past 25 in northern India as hill states take the first hit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi government opens monsoon parliament under a cloud of protests, leaks and a fortified capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Manesar engineer named, Delhi High Court orders CBSE birth-record fix, and a swelling Jantar Mantar crowd tests police arithmetic

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's parallel courts: a Delhi march for education meets a CJP rebuke in the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

New Delhi draws four lines in a single afternoon: tax, coal, ethanol, and the monsoon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Two Indian High Courts, Two Quiet Bombshells on Rights and Records

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Hinduja Petroleum asks the LNG market a quieter question than the headlines suggest

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi government tells parliament ASI ran 121 archaeological projects in five years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

India's auto-parts kingmakers: how Minda is stitching the JV pipeline for foreign OEMs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

'Cockroaches' march on Delhi: India's Gen Z insurgents test Modi's parliamentary patience

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia20 Jul

New Delhi's outsourced consular front comes back into focus after Supreme Court clears passport-tender quashing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou, a quiet vote in China's industrial gravity well

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

War premiums return to the barrel: refining margins squeeze as Ukraine and the Gulf tighten the diesel market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi's education march reveals a Dalit-led politics the parties didn't sanction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A city under lockdown, a ceiling fan, a Bollywood shrug: Delhi on July 20

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi High Court weighs state force-feeding against Sonam Wangchuk's right to fast

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi's Jantar Mantar protest ends for now after BJP's Nadda pledges no further crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi monsoon double-pile: students march on parliament as flood toll climbs past 25

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi march tests Modi's grip on a youth electorate fed up with paper leaks

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Cyprus posture and Taiwan language: a single day, two fronts where Ankara and Beijing test the regional floor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi High Court orders arrest of Delhi Capitals cricketer Abishek Porel in rape case

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Cockroach vs the Republic: How a Satirical Party Broke India's Parliament

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

CJP march on Parliament ends in lathicharge, 118 personnel hurt and 70 detained as Delhi police push protesters back

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Chinese passenger-car exports to Russia more than doubled in the first half

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's state funds ride in as the equity rout tests Beijing's appetite for the slow road

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

China's swing-buyer playbook steadies crude after Strait of Hormuz scare

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's three-front race: orbital compute, climate theatre, and the AI distillation fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's new global AI body, and what India reads into it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China keeps heavy rare earths off the table for Japan, with export data widening the silence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing warns Tokyo over nuclear rethink as Takaichi-era defence debate boils over

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing sharpens its line on Japan as Takaichi's premiership enters the nuclear-policy crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Two stories, one squeeze: Beijing's maritime push meets a contracting car market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's bunker-fuel surge and orbital compute bet: two signals of a state picking its seams

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

A Chinese air-defence system surfaces in Bahrain, and the Gulf's arms geometry shifts again

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

China's 1,000-satellite orbital bet lands while AI row with Washington stays open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing's AI governance push lands in a week crowded with US pressure on Indian tech

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Plagiarism verdict, prediction markets and a Kimi model: three data points on China's AI-cultural moment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's AI stack is splitting in two: satellites in orbit, small firms out in front

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

China's AI moment arrives with a pork surplus and a $1.65 trillion warning from across the Pacific

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

China's asteroid interceptor and the new geometry of strategic reach

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Casio's cheap-watch bet is paying off, and the share price knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Cairo's monorail opens long, runs empty

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

A saffron hue for Bihar's model schools, and a BJP ally's quiet objection

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

ASEAN's unity test runs through Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi tells WIC China will "lead the world" in AI, in technology and in the rules around it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A Nobel chemist's China endorsement lands in the middle of an AI race already tilted east

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Wujiang landslide leaves a Chinese province scrambling as rescue crews push into the third day

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi Jinping pitches Beijing as the rule-maker for global AI, and most capitals are listening

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi calls for UN 'revitalisation' at BRICS summit, signalling China's pitch for a wider institutional rewrite

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Wilkerson's wager: a former US colonel says China wins a full-scale war, and a dissatisfied Global South lets it happen

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Inside the Gudapakkam workshop stitching quiet back into Indian craft

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

The ceasefire that wasn't: a US-Iran unraveling, and why New Delhi is recalculating

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia19 Jul

Ukraine's 47th Brigade leans on STRIX loitering munitions as FPV crews rack up armour kills

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

The Uber driver and the algorithm: a small human story in the gig economy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

When two names become a talking point: Trump, Vietnam, and the cost of borrowing grief

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Two American deaths, one comparison: Trump's Vietnam line on Iran losses

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump tells the New York Post the Iran war is worth American lives: what the interview actually said

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump defends US soldier deaths in Iran war with a population-scale comparison

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump threatens sanctions on Iranian oil buyers as Beijing flags 25-year supply pact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump’s renewed Iran campaign and the limits of American escalation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Twenty-five thousand march in Tokyo as Japan debates its own remilitarisation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Shorts in the office: Tokyo's small dress-code reform meets a very Japanese resistance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's confidence play: a Georgetown professor's vow and the long shadow of Vietnam

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Tata's Vadodara line rolls out India's first military transport built outside state-owned hangar walls

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A Taiwan Strait War Game With Real Stakes: What a Quito Think Tank Just Signalled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

More rain on the way: southern China landslide search grinds on as forecasters warn of renewed downpours

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk’s wife moves Delhi High Court to shift him out of Safdarjung Hospital, citing lost faith in treatment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Delhi march puts Ladakh back on India's front line

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Leh's climate scientist fasts against his own state: Sonam Wangchuk and the long shadow of Ladakh's autonomy demand

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sindhu reclaims Japan Open title, putting Tokyo's badminton summer back on the front pages

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

PV Sindhu's Japan Open win lands at a hinge moment for Indian badminton

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

The $30 Million Bet That Almost Cost Sega Everything: A Forgotten Chapter in SoftBank's Rise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Supreme Court pauses Pakistan-border demolitions for two weeks as a separate US gun case moves through markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Shadow fleet thins out: SBU pressure empties Black Sea anchorages

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Kyiv's shadow-fleet strike puts India's and China's Russian oil imports back in the frame

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Sanctions Overreach Returns to the Dollar Debate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Sanjiangyuan in summer: how China's high-altitude reserve is being reshaped by climate, herds and cameras

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

A Saudi nuclear deal, a Telegram post, and the question the West keeps dodging

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Saudi uranium, Indian monsoon, Delhi private-school rules: three reads on a single Sunday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Moscow reaches for Beijing's cover: why Russia's 'balanced China' line matters more than it sounds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India at Lord’s: Rohit and Kohli close on a 400-match milestone that says less about them than about Indian cricket’s depth

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

A beer pump in Qingdao, and the soft-power logic behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

The Raipur Reach: When Commuters Take Train Safety Into Their Own Hands

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

P V Sindhu becomes first Indian to win the Japan Open

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

Manila Calls Out Beijing Over AI Cartoon as South China Sea Tensions Find a New Front

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's loyalty pledge to Moscow redraws the Korea question

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's Russia pledge lands at the Kremlin with the war grinding on

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's foreign minister lands in Moscow and renews the 'until victory' pledge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Nintendo's Pokémon patent loss in Japan exposes a thinner moat than the brand suggests

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Merz names China alongside Russia as core EU threat, redrawing Berlin's risk map

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Manjot Kalra arrest puts Delhi Police back in the spotlight on cricket corruption

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Maharashtra's bus fare hike lands in a state already running on fumes

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Maharashtra rewrites the school bus rulebook: live tracking, CCTV, capped fares

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Lai tells DPP to resist Beijing's 'red terror' as Taiwan party convention opens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Lai’s ‘not China’s Taiwan’ line lands on a knife-edge weekend in Taipei

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Logistics, not chips: why Beijing is weaponising the supply chain's plumbing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China's Kimi K3 forces a valuation repricing on Anthropic, and a rethink on what "open" means

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Kimi K3 Reshapes the AI Race as Compute Capacity Becomes the New Bottleneck

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Detentions, school rules, and the load-bearing maths of India's internal geography

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia19 Jul

Kawasaki Heavy bets that hydrogen can rebuild Japan's petrochemical backbone

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

Kazakhstan summons Ukraine's envoy over Black Sea strikes on Caspian oil flows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

The bookshelves Kashmir is not allowed to read

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Jingye's British Steel Claim Reopens the Question of What a Nationalised Foreign Investor Is Owed

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Jingye's British Steel Gambit: A Chinese Owner Asks Westminster to Pay for the Squeeze

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Jammu and Kashmir flash floods kill ten as Abdullah cuts Delhi trip short for statehood protest

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Twelve dead as Jammu and Kashmir floods cut off mountain villages

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Inside the Jantar Mantar mobilisation: why India's capital is filling with out-of-state protesters

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's quietest signal yet: a leaked readout, an Indian bazaar, and a question Washington won't answer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's U18 volleyballers win eighth Asian crown as Tehran leans into sport as soft power

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's robotics teams post strong results at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

The Targeting Logic Behind an Iran–Russia Intelligence Loop

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's tanker window: how Iran moved roughly 70 million barrels before the US blockade snapped back

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's oil keeps moving

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Twenty Tankers and Six Billion Dollars: Iran's Oil Sprint Out of the US Blockade

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's New Missile Profile Reshapes the Calculus for U.S. and Israeli Air Defences

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran returns six medals from Shanghai as the maths olympiad's geopolitics sharpen

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Who pulled the trigger on al-Udeid? A reported Iranian strike on the US Gulf base reopens the China–Russia question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

WhatsApp, the boss scam, and an AI memory crunch: three threads pulling India’s consumer internet into 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Jakarta's deportation of a Palestinian activist lands in Cyprus, with an extradition question still open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Indonesia boat sinking off Mentawai leaves 18 missing as rescuers pull seven from the water

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India puts a private rocket on the pad, and a smartphone market under pressure

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India's smartphone squeeze signals a wider AI-driven memory crunch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Sri Lanka's tax-treaty fix and the new geometry of South Asian fraud

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India widens Sri Lanka tax net, as five-gold Olympiad haul signals a deeper science push

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Vikram-1 lifts off: India’s private sector reaches orbit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India watches from the gallery as the US-Iran ceasefire collapses in a week

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India adds a gold and three silvers at the 2026 Biology Olympiad, rounding out a strong science-olympiad season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India's cholesterol crisis and the long shadow of 1962

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India's cholesterol problem is bigger than its cricket summer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India's World Cup mornings: a generational inheritance and the ghost of 1994

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India's Gen Z protesters head for parliament as a parallel economy of scams and AI squeezes the same young workforce

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India's hydrogen push stalls at the diesel rope, Australia steps in on uranium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India's Olympiad haul: four golds at IChO 2026, with JEE Advanced topper among the winners

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India reaches orbit with a privately built rocket, but a memory crunch is squeezing the phones that put it on the map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India’s AI Boom Is Quietly Reshaping Its Smartphone Market, and Its Fraud Economy

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

New Delhi's austerity recruits: how India's army cost cuts stranded a generation of 'Agniveer' hopefuls

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

A death in Hyderabad and the pressure on India’s tech workforce

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Monsoon intensifies over north-west, central and eastern India as IMD flags flash-flood risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

House committee report revives China nuclear-espionage debate, with Beijing's riposte already filed

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

When the robots fight, who owns the spectacle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Gandhi's Jantar Mantar stand puts Sonam Wangchuk back at the centre of India's protest map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Farage concedes fraudster Cottrell bankrolled pre-election filming and gave him a home

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump's 'Eurasian Axis' Label Sticks to a Tie That Predates the Slogan

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Ten goals, a hat-trick, and a bronze: England's frantic farewell tournament sets the template for the cycle ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A hunger strike at DU and the politics of who gets heard in Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi police block 'Cockroach' march on parliament as India's satire party tests the edges of protest law

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

New Delhi bars 'Cockroach' march on parliament as opposition tests Modi's street

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi High Court refuses to shift Sonam Wangchuk to private hospital, drawing a quietly drawn line between state custody and family discretion

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi police tighten the screws on Jantar Mantar as monsoon crowds test India’s protest geography

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi Police block CJP march on Parliament, setting up a confrontation over civil liberties in the Indian capital

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi University’s Round 1 admissions close with 79,000 acceptances, and the real bottleneck is still ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing cuts cocoa duties as zero-tariff regime reshapes West African trade with China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

China's orbital AI bet lands the same week its terrestrial model rattles Silicon Valley valuations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China logs another record grain harvest, and the politics of feeding 1.4 billion people gets quietly harder

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China's Treasury sell-off is small, slow, and very loud

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Strings in Common: A China-US Youth Ensemble Plays the Long Game in Shanghai

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Cheap Chinese AI tokens now route a measurable slice of US demand through OpenRouter

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

A two-faced cat in China, and the science behind the split

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

More rain forecast for southern China as rescue crews dig through a Chongqing landslide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Drone rules tighten in Chinese cities as wartime Ukraine lessons filter into Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing tightens the spigot: what China's new cross-border rules mean for HSBC, AIA and the Hong Kong listing pipeline

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China's orbital data bet revives a familiar charge: who is distilling whom?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China's summer box office crosses 4 billion yuan, and the soft-power math is the real story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Driving tests on the China-Afghanistan frontier: why a viral clip from Kabul is doing more than a hundred op-eds

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing turns to AI companion apps as a demographic lever, and moves to regulate the feelings they provoke

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Bumrah's absence exposes India's pace-bowling fragility at Lord's

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

British Steel nationalisation drags London into a fight with Beijing it did not pick

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

A Black Sea port signs a partnership memo. The map it sits on has changed.

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

BeiDou in Iranian hands: how a Chinese satellite grid is rewriting Gulf targeting math

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

How China's Beidou Became Tehran's Silent Battlefield Advantage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Bangladesh seals T20 series in Zimbabwe as newer batting core finds away form

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Bangladesh seal T20 series in Zimbabwe as bowling depth carries the day

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Balochistan's long war resurfaces, and the minerals underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Balochistan's long war returns to the headlines, with the minerals underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

The Atlantic sees a tell in Trump's election-meddling routine. Tehran smells one too.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Why Arunachal Pradesh is searching for Sonam Wangchuk

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Anutin's Beijing week: Thailand tests the limits of its China hedge

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Anthropic's valuation wobbles, Kimi K3 panics the room: the distillation fight is now a market fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Anthropic's valuation repriced as China's Kimi K3 redraws the AI competitive map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Explosion at Gujarat fireworks factory kills eight as India confronts a recurring industrial safety record

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Yes Bank's 34% profit jump lands inside an Indian smartphone squeeze and an AI-spending concentration that still touches only 2% of US households

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

WSJ: US Officials Probe Whether Russia or China Are Helping Iran Hit American Targets With Maneuverable Missiles

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Xi’s military hardware push forces Washington to confront a defence-tech gap it can no longer ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia18 Jul

Wilkerson's "dark reality" claim puts US-Iran war back in the China frame

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Weather as weapon: the slow militarisation of the atmosphere

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

US shuts Peshawar consulate, narrowing its diplomatic footprint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Ukrainian long-range strikes hit Wildberries logistics sites inside Russia

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A retired admiral says Washington has no strategy on Iran. The Pentagon's silence is the louder signal.

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump's China hack claim lands without proof, and the politics of doubt

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump revives the China-hack playbook, just as a declassified CIA report punctures the Venezuela one

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump floats a US-only World Cup, and a China co-host inside the same breath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A party office, a bulldozer, and the optics of power in West Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Taipei weighs new USVs and drones for the coast guard as cross-strait pressure mounts

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Taiwan bets on unmanned coast guard fleet as sea-drone contracts move to U.S. suppliers

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Tasnim frames US gas prices and a $42m-an-hour war bill as the cost of confronting Iran

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sri Lanka's missing port: why a maritime nation sits outside the shipping map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Wangchuk removed from Jantar Mantar: Gandhi accuses Modi government of muting Ladakh's loudest climate voice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Leh fast puts Modi government on notice in Ladakh

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Ladakh's 21-day fast ends in hospital: Sonam Wangchuk's detention at Jantar Mantar revives a Gandhian tradition of Himalayan protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk hospitalised as Ladakh's climate fast enters its fourth week

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike reaches a breaking point in New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Skyroot's Vikram-1 lifts off, and India's private launch market stops being theoretical

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Eight dead in Sichuan landslide as Beijing presses US over journalist visas

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Russia–Iran financial wiring surfaces as Middle East strikes keep Gulf bases on edge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Moscow rebukes Tokyo over drone cooperation with Kyiv, calls it contribution to Russian civilian deaths

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia18 Jul

Ratcliffe on Russia, drones, and the China question: parsing the CIA director's three sentences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Ratcliffe's GDP jab rests on a method he didn't name

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Pakistan's diplomacy push with Kuwait keeps 'territorial sovereignty' framing at the centre of regional talks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Merz in three sentences: the Europe Washington can no longer take for granted

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Meta's India algorithm fight is now a template for platform governance worldwide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Moonshot AI narrows the gap with a cheaper model, and the frontier is no longer American-only

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Moonshot's 2.8 trillion-parameter release rewrites the open-weight frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Lockheed Martin locks in $439 million ATACMS deal for Taiwan, deliveries running to 2031

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Lai Châu flash flood kills at least four as northern Vietnam's wet-season toll climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Laos methanol deaths and China's AI companion rules: two very different answers to a population crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Kimi K3 lands, Anthropic slips, and the distillation fight goes loud

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Kerala's rooftop solar boom runs into a grid it cannot yet absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

A Himalayan Kitchen Tries to Reframe Ladakh

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A Kashmir Image, a Saudi Cell, and Tehran's Patient Lobby for Shia Prisoners

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's flag-desecration ban lands as Ontario stocks up on water bombers: two very different rule-making impulses

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's flag-desecration ban lands as Tokyo widens the space for speech that costs nothing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Tokyo draws a flag, Japan draws a line: the new law against desecration and the questions it leaves open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's imperial law gets its first rewrite in 79 years; Olympus bets the OR goes robotic

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

US acknowledges wounded troops in Iranian strikes on Jordan bases

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's envoy in Islamabad declares war resumed, accusing Washington of breaching the 14-point memorandum

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran's precision strikes on Israeli-linked sites raise an awkward question inside CENTCOM: who is helping Iran aim?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's missile test footage and a Capitol jab at Trump: two currents crossing on 18 July

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's Missile and Drone Barrage on US Bases in Jordan Reignites Debate Over Escalation Calculus

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran's missile adaptation puts Washington on the back foot

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's junior spikers take Asia unbeaten, eighth continental title tucked away

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran’s Beijing Bind: How China Keeps Iran on a Short Leash

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India’s World Cup Drought Returns a Familiar Question: Where Are the Finishers?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Got Latent, episode three: a viral moment, a familiar problem

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's first hydrogen train rolls, but the fuel itself is still on order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India flags its first hydrogen train, betting the rail network can lead a fuels transition diesel cannot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's former minister sounds off on India's bullet train. New Delhi pushes back.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's quiet NTM lung crisis gets a clinical push

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's squad shuffle tests bench depth before the World Cup

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

India's private rocket lifts, its phones stall, and its executives get impersonated: three signals from one week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's two hot summers: salt pan labour and an AI-driven memory squeeze reshape the cost of basics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

AI memory crunch and a 34% profit jump: India’s consumer-tech squeeze has two very different winners

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Banks Are Making Money Again. The People Sending It Aren't.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Commonwealth Games flagbearers signal a state project that has outgrown its federation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Birmingham flagbearers land as coalition math gets loud in Maharashtra

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Ahmedabad blaze, a Tamil idli-dosa hybrid and an undersea TBM: the three India stories that quietly defined Friday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Hydrogen on the Jind–Sonipat line: what India’s first green train tells us about the politics of Punjab’s rail promise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Inside the India jobs reshuffle that turns a failed exam into a parallel civil service

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Gujarat's lion attacks expose a conservation model running past its limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Uyghur exile government backs Myanmar's shadow state, framing Beijing as common enemy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

England three up on France inside the opening 45 as prediction markets hang on every word

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi's air and a detained engineer: two stories that frame India's climate politics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi’s ITO twin-tower plan tests the capital’s appetite for vertical governance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi gets a new top cop, mid-stride: the hurried handover at Police HQ

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Congress faces an INDIA bloc with fewer allies and a narrower runway

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

China holds rates steady as Trump-era frictions multiply the political risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing's soft-power snags surface in Manila and the southwest Chinese highlands on the same morning

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

China's visa gamble: Beijing opens the door to the world's tourists

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Eight pulled from rubble as Chongqing landslide exposes the limits of China's rural-rescue model

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

China's AI diplomacy and a Filipino insult collide on the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing warns London over British Steel nationalisation, signals measured retaliation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing tightens the valve on cross-border money, and Hong Kong lenders feel it first

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

A fossil, a staged crash, and a 9% bet: three snapshots of China's contested century

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Bihar's SIR sprint and Lalu Prasad's AIIMS move land on the same day in Delhi, exposing two different pressures on Indian democracy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Bangkok's deadliest nightlife fire in years exposes a regulatory pattern Thailand keeps repeating

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Two river rescues, one monsoon: how Asia's urban flood drills are outpaced by the climate

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion Bet Hits a Chinese Speed Bump

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi pitches an 'AI for the Global South' line in Shanghai, with Phnom Penh and Bangkok on the dais

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi warns against 'new historical injustices' as AI race reshapes semiconductor order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi Jinping tells Shanghai's AI summit the technology must be shaped by humanity's common values

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

White House alleges Beijing blackmailed a US official as immigration, election-integrity fights escalate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

The $1.6 billion question: how American funding is shaping the China narrative in Nigeria

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's Beijing headache: why the personal rapport with Xi no longer travels

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's primetime address puts 220 million-voter claim and China accusation at center of US election fight

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's 220-million-voter-file accusation lands without a paper trail

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China-voter-files charge lands in Beijing, and on prediction markets

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump alleges China stole 220 million US voter files; Beijing calls claim ‘fabricated and slanderous’

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's primetime China accusation meets a fractured broadcast window and a Truth Social paywall

Venkataraman · americas · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump accuses Beijing of stealing 220 million US voter files; China calls the claim 'entirely fabricated'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China accusation, Beijing's rebuttal, and the visa fight already underway

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China-hack claim and the press-license threat land the same week, and the patterns rhyme

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump declassifies a 2020 story: 220 million voter files, paid journalists, and a renewed China frame

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China broadside lands a day before Beijing's own deadline: what to watch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China accusations test the limits of declassified evidence as a political instrument

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump alleges Chinese 'largest compromise of election data in history' in primetime address

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China election-meddling allegations meet a flat denial in Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump accuses Beijing of historic 2020 election-data breach; networks decline to air primetime address

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Sri Lanka's T20 League Opens Under Corruption Cloud as Delhi Engineers a Monsoon Fix

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

India's first private orbital rocket aims for space on Saturday, and Hyderabad is counting down

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Seoul's two-track play: a wearable robot on one bench, an Arctic shipping lane on another

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

A Russian heckler in Tokyo: what a single rally reveals about the friction inside Japanese civil society over Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Moscow and Beijing push back on Trump's election-meddling claim, and the line of fire widens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

RBI flags West Asia and monsoon as India economy's twin fault lines

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Manila's coastal forts: deterrence, or a target list for Beijing?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Polymarket puts China’s AI top-model shot at 9%, and the betting crowd has a point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan's defence pact with Saudi Arabia is starting to look like a liability

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Palestinians and the long reach of Global South solidarity

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Washington's new charge d'affaires lands in Kyiv as Oudkirk takes the post

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan and Kuwait draw red lines around Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes reshape Gulf security

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan rebalances toward the Gulf and Washington, with Tehran in the crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

A Grandmother's Death, An All-India Rank 1: Inside the Motivation Driving This Year's NEET Topper

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

'Mini Kabul' falls silent as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa turns on its Afghan residents

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Malaysia's Network School probe tests the country's pitch for foreign tech talent

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Maharashtra rolls back its electoral revision, Delhi opens a new monsoon front

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Malaysia says it cannot block MMC Port chief, drawing a line between state and corporate control

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Kuwait turns east as Gulf air defenses engage Iranian and Iraqi drones

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Kuwait reaches for nuclear cover as Gulf security realigns around Pakistan

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Kashmiri detainee returns from Saudi Arabia after months in custody over Khomeini image

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Japan redraws imperial succession rules and keeps the line on male-only emperors

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Tokyo's maglev decade of drift, and the yen that won't wait for it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

IRGC commander warns of 'aggressive phase' if US keeps striking

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

India's insurance lapse problem and a digital-health naming mess, in one slow week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India tells Tehran: Chabahar is fine, and our logistics line stays open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's smartphone slowdown meets an AI memory crunch, and a digital health mess behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's biggest IPO of the year pulls in $31bn in bids as institutional money floods the book

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's index reshuffle, a research budget, and the small questions of industrial design

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

India's growth narrative splits along the variable you pick

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

A 3.5-tonne cannon vanishes in broad daylight: India's heritage under new pressure

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Hong Kong's two-track summer: US trade status restored as Shein clears final IPO gate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Hong Kong trade privilege, China election-data charge land on the same 24 hours

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Federal Bank flags 1.5–2% net-worth hit as RBI rules rewrite Indian lending math

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Europe's anti-missile project with Ukraine reads as insurance against a wobbly American umbrella

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Eisenkot's North Korea warning lands in an Israel already sharpening the Iran file

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

China draws level with the US on AI, says Axios. The contest moves from benchmark to build-out.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

China demands US lift journalist curbs as Taiwan-replica drills reset the threat clock

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Landslide in Chongqing leaves eight dead and dozens missing as southwest China enters peak rainy season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing's AI moment: what an Axios verdict on the US lead does and doesn't settle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

China's week of two signals: a fatal landslide and a denial in Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

China holds rates for a 14th month as Beijing weighs deflation, debt and Trump tariff truce

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing pushes back on Trump's 2020 election claim as the diplomacy of grievance returns

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing signals retaliation as Trump opens second front: the China vote-fraud file

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing's three-message week: AI equity, Taiwan muscle memory, and a denial on US elections

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Bangladesh's reserves climb back to 2022 levels, with Malaysia's labor reopening tipped to push remittances higher

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Axios: China Has 'Erased' the US AI Lead. Beijing Says Mind Your Own Elections.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing pushes an AI diplomacy agenda while pharmaceutical supply chains deepen China's grip

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Xi's Pacific SLBM: signal to Washington, message to Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Twenty-nine states sign up for a World AI Cooperation Organization. The question is what it actually does

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Two fronts, one message: Washington turns up the heat on Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Washington turns two screws at once: drug supply and AI compute, with Beijing the common thread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Vietnam's northern highlands flood as monsoon trough stalls over Lao Cai

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

UPSC quiz flags India’s chip and phone bet as the question that won’t go away

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

UN envoy frames China as a Global South AI bridge, and the West's silence is louder than the speech

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Trump's primetime pitch lands against a quieter backdrop: Beijing's data game and Tehran's silence

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Trump's 25% Brazil tariff lands alongside a New York data-center pressure play

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Thailand's deportation test: a Chinese journalist's case redraws the region's safe-haven limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Seoul pulls the lever on single-stock leveraged ETFs, freezing new listings to choke volatility

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast, and Congress's bid to own Ladakh's political weather

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sonu Sood and the loneliness question India stopped asking

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sony chairman tells Bangkok forum that human ties still shape Asia's AI race

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Skyroot's Vikram-1 launch puts India's private-sector space industry on the launchpad

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Shanghai AI pact gathers 27 states, putting Beijing at the centre of a parallel governance track

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

South Korea flags single-stock leveraged ETFs as 'high-risk,' drawing Saronic's $3.2bn Texas play into the same week of capital reallocation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

S. Janaki, the voice that held south Indian cinema together, dies at 88

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Rybar Digest: Ukraine Protesters Demand More Russian Casualties at Fedorov Dismissal Rallies

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Moscow’s barrels keep heading south: Russia stays India’s biggest crude supplier in mid-2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Root Sets Up the Decider as India Brace for a Fifth-Test Minefield

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 feared dead as Rohingya boats capsize in the Bay of Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 Rohingya missing after two boats capsize in the Bay of Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Over 500 feared dead in Bay of Bengal as Rohingya boats capsize in monsoon seas

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Five hundred feared lost in the Bay of Bengal: another Rohingya voyage ends in mass death

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 Rohingya feared dead in Bay of Bengal boat capsizes

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

PAS's Johor wipeout tests the party in Negeri Sembilan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan's security crisis in Balochistan exposes the limits of its China-mediated peace pitch

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps between Washington and Tehran, asking both sides to come back to the table

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps into the US-Iran back channel, betting mediation muscle it built in May

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan moves to shield Chinese-operated mine as Balochistan insurgency flares

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps in as US strikes Iran's Iranshahr airport, hours after urging a return to talks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

OnePlus pulls back from the West and India, and what the retreat says about the phone industry's next phase

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Odisha's missing reports and the long shadow of Kandhamal

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Nvidia courts Tokyo as sovereign-AI buildouts redraw the chip map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Nvidia plants a flag in Toyota's living lab: what the Woven City tie-up actually signals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Bangkok Becomes Asia's Convenient Table: Nikkei Forum Tests Whether Industrial Policy Can Be Made to Sound Boring

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Nissan bets a redesigned Elgrand can steady a shaky homecoming

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

New York goes nuclear to keep its AI grid from drifting to Beijing

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi student Aryan Gupta tops NEET-UG on his second attempt, setting his sights on AIIMS

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Nepal's Gen Z street politics turns on Kathmandu's mayor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Five Hundred Missing at Sea: The Myanmar Boat Disaster the World Will Not Name

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Moonshot's Kimi K3, the next test of China's open-weights playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Kuala Lumpur draws a line: Anwar says Israeli passport-holders will be deported

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Maruti consumer ruling lands as India's services trade prepares to overtake goods

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

LIGO India: a gravitational-wave observatory, and a quiet statement about scientific self-reliance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Ladakh's seventh hill council reignites a quiet constitutional fight over Delhi's frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Lakshadweep crosses the TB threshold, and India's services trade quietly slips past its goods

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Kimi K3 takes the front-end arena as Polymarket odds 69% Anthropic extends paid access

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Arvind Kejriwal taps Sonam Wangchuk as his model Education Minister, and Ladakh reads the room

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Karnataka's temple CCTV move and Delhi's SIR friction signal India's governance pressure points

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan's 27,500-chip Nvidia bet lands the same week Washington tightens the visa screws

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan's maglev delay offers a window into a slower infrastructure cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan bets a national AI factory can reset its industrial position

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India's space agency is haemorrhaging scientists. The fix may make it worse.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Israel’s Knesset stretches IDF conscription as Tokyo’s maglev limps into another delay

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Tehran's Strait of Hormuz warning lands as China quietly cuts crude imports to a ten-year low

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Iran's BRICS pitch: reframe the bloc as an anti-colonial bloc

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Inpex breaks ground on a $21bn LNG plant in eastern Indonesia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services exports are about to eclipse goods, and the numbers say something the manufacturing push does not

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services economy is about to eclipse its factory output. That changes the debate about industrial policy.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's streaming boom meets a NATO rebrand: two different openings for New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's Supreme Court pushes back on a third-language load

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls its sailors from Hormuz, exposing the gulf between its services boom and its shipping risk

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls its seafarers out of the Strait of Hormuz

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services exports are about to eclipse goods. The growth story the headlines miss.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services boom hits the ceiling the manufacturing push was meant to break

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services catch-up resets the trade-deal arithmetic

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services catch-up: NSE clears FPI derivatives as exports edge ahead of goods

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls three levers at once: water, fuel, uranium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India tells Moscow it has no spare gasoline: Reuters

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

New Delhi tells Indian sailors to avoid the Strait of Hormuz

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's foreign-policy reset lands on the desk of a new S. Jaishankar successor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's parallel resets: taxing fuel exports, importing uranium, and debating simultaneous polls

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

A thousand days of Gaza, and the awkward silence from New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's first hydrogen train rolls into a budget already stretched thin

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Two Indian consumer stories, one quiet verdict on the rules that bind

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Three small India stories that say something bigger about consumer-state friction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India raises diesel and jet-fuel export levies as it funnels another $19.7bn into domestic chips and phones

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Drones, donations and a police station for women: three India stories that say something larger

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia16 Jul

India's $20 billion electronics bet meets a university system in revolt

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India’s lithium shift rolls into a stalled e-rickshaw lot: what the cybersecurity warning actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

ICICI Lombard's $980 million slide hands India's insurance sector a credibility test

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's AAIB draws up cockpit transcript in Air India crash probe, court filing shows

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

European heatwave bends transport, power and nuclear grids, but the political heat is moving east

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Four years, four states: how a 2022 arrest in Uttar Pradesh widened into an ED sweep of madrasas and hawala corridors

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi bets Rs 10 lakh per student on a start-up pipeline that still has to prove it works

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's air pivot: how a winter pollution plan is reshaping the city's last-mile freight economy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Three stories from one Delhi afternoon: bar, exam hall, prison gate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's bedrock and India's chip bets: two versions of the same long game

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Inside the WhatsApp-Forward Economy: How Two Delhi-Haryana Rackets Reveal the New Extortion Stack

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's startup seed money, a NEET topper from the capital, and a UP police raid: three July 16 stories that sketch Modi's India

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's Xinjiang target ship and a thousand humanoid apprentices: two signals the West is choosing to misread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China and Yemen frame US strikes while Beijing tightens its Cuba line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's growth engine sputters: what a slowing economy means for Brussels and Kyiv

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing rehearses the blockade it hasn't yet ordered

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China tops US in global favourability, a Pew turn that reshapes the soft-power ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China stacks rare-earth, AI and tourism levers on the same day, and Western capitals have no single counter-move

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Three moves, one signal: Beijing stages hardware, diplomacy, and automation in the same news cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms are sitting on a mountain of unsold stock, and they can't mark it back up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms can't pass on costs. That's a fiscal problem in disguise.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms run out of pricing power as inventory glut deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Coast Guard in the Spratlys, chatbots in Beijing: a single week in the China contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's Kimi K3 takes the coding bench, and the framing that follows it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's oil-and-robotics build-out turns industrial policy into a strategic weapon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China edges past the United States in global favourability for the first time, Pew survey finds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China pulls the crude lever as Hormuz tensions redraw the oil map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China posts 4.7% H1 growth and tightens the screws on AI companions in the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing's image turns a corner while its regulators turn off the charm

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Zero-tariff Africa, a sentencing in Shanghai, and a crackdown on AI lovers: three threads in China's July

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing tightens the leash on AI companions as humanoid robots head for the factory floor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

First American LNG tanker in a year docks in China as Middle East war redraws the gas map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing rewires intimacy: the AI companion crackdown, and what it says about Chinese governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's AI moment is splitting into two markets, and the regulator just redrew the line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's open-source AI catches up where the headlines already are

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing's three-front sprint: asteroid radar, oil stockpiles, and an AI companion crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing sends a vice-minister to Washington. The signal is smaller than it looks.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Batanes and the cartography of intent: reading Beijing's signal to Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Dhaka's 108-kilometre fence: Bangladesh redraws the line on Rakhine's spillover

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks a three-year freeze, and the won tells you what it actually thinks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks a three-year freeze, and Seoul's chip rout does the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Dhaka's army, Delhi's nerves: the veteran general's warning from Organiser that India is taking seriously

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

ASEAN bets on humanoid robotics as Seoul tightens policy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Three Asia stories, one pattern: capacity stretched past its breaking point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Apple clears China AI hurdle with Alibaba and Baidu tie-up, ceding ground on data and model architecture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Apple lands China AI approval, hands the keys to Alibaba and Baidu

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Zelensky's Paris entrance and the optics of a Europe still divided on Ukraine

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

World Leaks claims breach of Kudankulam contractor; sensitive nuclear data allegedly published

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Hanoi's $1.5 trillion ask, and why it lands in a year of scarce dollars

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv, walks off with a Ukrainian state honour

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Hanoi Courts Outside Capital as $1.5tn Build-Out Reshapes Southeast Asia's Risk Map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Utah mall stabbing leaves Indian Muslim worker hospitalised, suspect charged with hate crime

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

A Chinese passport, religious texts, and an AI device: the items seized from a US national at the India-Nepal border

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

US Coast Guard fast cutters redeploy from Gulf to Singapore and Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Cyclosporiasis surges across more than 30 US states, with Michigan carrying the caseload

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Truth Social by way of Tehran: how a Chatham House warning about Trump's digital diplomacy is being read in Iran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump pressures New York to lift data-center moratorium as China posts 4.3% GDP print

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump pulls the lever on New York's data-centre freeze, telling Albany the AI race won't wait

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump urges New York to lift data-centre moratorium as China posts 4.3% Q2 growth

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump's data-centre pitch lands in New York, with Beijing circling the same power grid

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Thinking Machines opens Inkling, betting enterprises will pay to leave the frontier labs behind

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia15 Jul

Tata holds the crown, Adani joins the top ten: what India's brand league table signals about a sanctions-bill squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Taiwan's TPP crosses the strait as Taiwan mangoes land in Europe: a quiet week for cross-strait economic statecraft

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's 18th day on hunger strike: what the Cockroach Janta Party is demanding and why the federal response is being read as an avoidance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

A hunger strike in Leh, a petition in Delhi, and a question about state authority over the body

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

South Korea's AI moment is arriving faster than its regulators

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Singapore court hits Bloomberg with $356,000 defamation ruling as India pours another $19.7bn into chips

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Russian synchronized swimming triumph in Tokyo frames the Olympic question no Western wire wants to ask

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Russia's central bank just stopped telling you where the ruble is going

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Russia's floating crude pile-up signals the cost of a shrinking buyer's market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Pew map shows Xi outpacing Trump in global favourability, with neighbours tilting Beijing's way

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Warsaw backs India's UNSC bid, signalling a quieter European bet on Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Patimban's first boxes and Japan's quiet infrastructure playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Patimban's first boxes: Japan-backed port opens as Indonesia courts supply-chain gravity

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

OnePlus pulls back from the West, but India's question is louder

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

A $5 million check in 1995, a $4 trillion market cap in 2026: Huang revisits the Sega deal that kept Nvidia alive

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

New York's data-center standoff meets a 4.3% China quarter, and the AI race has a new fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

New York data-center moratorium, China's million-vehicle month, and the shape of the AI-industrial race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Old Delhi, new pressures: how a 17th-century name is being lost to the housing market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Nepal jails two former ministers in Bhutanese-refugee forgery ring

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Merz's October Tokyo trip sets up a quietly consequential Germany–Japan alignment

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

A Bengal MLA's defection, and the math Mamata cannot ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Anwar puts Malaysia on a hard line against Israel, says any Israeli found in the country will be expelled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Kuala Lumpur draws a line: Anwar says Malaysia will not recognise Israel and will expel any Israeli it finds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Malaysia threatens Israeli visitors with deportation as Gaza war reshapes regional diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Malaysia's deportation pledge places Israeli travelers at the sharp end of a wider diplomatic rupture

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Lindsey Graham's Long War: A Senator's Two-Decade Push From Iraq to Kyiv

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Liuzhou's 'Forest City' asks whether green architecture can scale in a country still building coal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Cyberattack on Nichirei's logistics backbone forces KFC Japan to warn of store closures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Japan's quiet dual play in Asia: a port in Java, a photo app in your pocket

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Japan's game studios have gone all-in on generative AI. The creative fallout is just beginning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Two hundred ships, one chokepoint: Iran turns Hormuz into a toll lane

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Iran's Hormuz permit queue exposes the geography of the wartime oil trade

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Inside the courtroom pushback: how India's top court is being asked to police its own narratives

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

India's textile belt cashes in on the EU and UK trade deals, but the supply chain is not yet out of the woods

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

When the bar stops work: inside Delhi's Rs 10 crore fight, a Kerala cyber-fraud warning, and a Rs 4 lakh insurance win

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Indonesia's Indika Energy bets on gold as coal earnings slide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Three court and municipal actions in one evening sketch a wider picture of India's judicial workload

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

India draw first blood in England ODI series after T20I humbling

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Gasoline queues turn unruly as Delhi's lawyers walk out over jurisdiction fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

India's gig economy: the flexibility promise is doing a lot of work

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

India's two big July 15 moves: an FTA with Britain, and a quieter reset of its railway ticketing backbone

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

India's $19.7 billion chip-and-smartphone bet tests Modi's industrial playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

IBM's 25% rout and China's growth miss collide on the same trading day, exposing a fault line in the AI capex story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi puts EVs at the centre of its air pollution fight, but the grid may not be ready

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi hits the gas on EVs the same week New Delhi and London open a tariff corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's crumbling classrooms: one in ten government school buildings flagged unsafe

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's SIR Backlog Meets Varanasi's Highway Push: Two Sides of India's 2026 Rollout

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi court convicts four in Tahir Hussain case; city flags unsafe school buildings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's electric push runs into a Chinese question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's biggest chip IPO yet tests Beijing's patience for a self-reliant memory stack

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

The drone part Beijing didn't put on the bill: how Chinese components ended up in Ukraine's unmanned fleet

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Clavicular to Pyongyang? Polymarket's 2% Says No, and That's the Story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print and the cost of repairing the inside of the house

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China posts 4.3% Q2 growth as Washington juggles fraud raids and an AI infrastructure fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second-quarter slowdown lands at 4.3%, and Amazon is already reshuffling the export map around it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's oil imports collapse and home prices keep falling: the second-quarter picture the wire doesn't soften

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second-quarter slowdown lands at 4.3%, and the global growth math changes with it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

China's robotics showcase lands in a week of rare-earth pressure points

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing's long game in Moscow: courting the post-Putin generation

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

A metal cap, a sanctions fight, a typhoon: three threads pull at China's July

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% Q2 print is fine. The composition is the problem.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China’s 4.3% print hands Beijing a slow-growth problem it cannot export away

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print looks stable. The composition tells a different story.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second quarter lands at 4.3% growth, and the airlines bleed through the noise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's growth miss lands in a week already shaped by Washington, Tehran and a thin diplomatic calendar

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's housing slump finds a floor it can't stand on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Robots in the warehouse, moratoriums in Albany: the two-front race for AI physical infrastructure

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing tells Washington: lift the Cuba blockade, now

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China pulls ahead of the United States in global favourability for the first time in a major cross-national survey

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print and the data-center chill: two readings of the same race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's carriers count the cost of a Middle East war, and a wider bill is coming due

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia15 Jul

Ottawa joins the GCAP tent, but only as a witness

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing's Pressure Campaign Now Has a Stage Name: Shen Yun

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Bengal's pitch for a connectivity-driven eastern corridor, and the fiscal ceiling behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Bangladesh bets a single QR code can pull a cash economy into the formal record

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Dhaka rolls out a national QR, betting interoperability can drag the cash economy into the formal one

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Bangladesh rolls out a single QR to drag a cash economy into the digital age

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Argentina's football team, fresh from a 2026 World Cup semi-final, sends a small cheque to flooded Chinese provinces

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Apple's China AI compromise: Alibaba's Qwen gets the keys

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Anduril's Palmer Luckey on Iran: a steep missile curve and a fraught computer-vision debate

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Ahmedabad files its first FIR over an illegal EWS occupation, and a quieter fight begins over who counts as the urban poor

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Ahmedabad's noise pilot and the slow grind of Indian urban governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Yen's slide reorders the carry trade as Tokyo walks a narrow line

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Yen's slide drags Tokyo exporters into a new warning season

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Yuan settlement crosses 25 trillion yuan in H1 2026 as Beijing's trade architecture deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Yunnan's summer pitch leans on altitude, not air-conditioning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Xi's governance anthology goes to Bishkek as SCO courts Central Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Xi's governance manual lands in Bishkek, signalling the SCO's ideological choreography

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

A fifth volume of Xi Jinping's governance writings goes on tour in Bishkek

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

The template is older than the target: Western media's Russia playbook, now aimed at China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Western tourists eye China's cool country: how Harbin, Qingdao and the southwest bet on a heat-dodge summer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Wangchuk's fast puts Modi's Ladakh policy in the dock

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Wolfsburg's reckoning: VW's 100,000-job cut plan lands in an auto industry already rewired by China

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Volkswagen's reckoning and the European car industry's China-shaped problem

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

When a viral post points at empire: reading a single sentence about Gaza, Vietnam and the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

US Treasury hits 50+ targets in Shamkhani shipping network, squeezing Iran's oil-export lifelines

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Trilateral Talks Stall as Beijing Watches the USMCA Cracks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Typhoon Bavi drives 260,000 from homes in China's Liaoning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Trump Floats Charging Beijing for Hormuz Cover as China Cracks One Million Vehicles a Month

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Taiwan's AI server makers use AI to make AI servers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Suntory PepsiCo bets Vietnam is the next bottled-water frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court fines three creators Rs 3 lakh each for defying disability-disparagement order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Tankers burning, tariffs threatened: the day the Strait of Hormuz became the world's tariff line

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's two-track bet: AI chips lift the growth line, weather derivatives quietly build underneath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul tilts the credit spigot for chip giants as BOK pivots hawkish

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's defence boom meets a market sell-off: how the same country became 2026's best performer and its newest bear case

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul's chip-led upgrade: South Korea lifts 2026 growth to a five-year high as BOK prepares a rare rate move

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A sodium-battery breakthrough and a 24% bet: China's two-front contest with Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Shell exits Indian renewables as Aditya Birla absorbs a 2.4 GW platform

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Riyadh's $47.2 million drone order from Taiwan signals a new industrial customer for Taipei

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Riyadh reaches for two resets at once: a drone pipeline from Taipei and a quiet exit for detained migrants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

The Russia tariff lever returns, with Graham's signature and a buyer's list already drawn

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia14 Jul

A record El Niño takes shape, and the emergency food system is not ready

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Power of Siberia-2 stalls as Beijing plays the long gas game

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Qatar’s Father Emir passes: a Gulf patriarch who reshaped Doha’s place in the world

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Singapore's PixVerse closes $439M round, vaulting past a $2B valuation in a video-AI market that no longer waits for Silicon Valley

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Russian strike hits Odesa Region oil depot as drone campaign grinds on

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Nvidia's H200 chips are reportedly crossing to China. The timing is the story.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Nvidia's H200 chips land in China: a quiet escalation in the semiconductor contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Nintendo weighs OLED upgrade for Switch 2, but panel costs keep the project on hold

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Strikes on Mykolaiv ports haven't dislodged shipping. The fix isn't a bomb, it's paperwork

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Magnitude 6.05 quake off Mindanao puts southern Philippines on watch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Mayon hits 190 days of eruption as Albay settles in for the long haul

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Xinjiang to Beijing: the fall of Ma Xingrui and what the third Politburo purge in four years tells us about Xi's China

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Malaysia's graphene battery bet rolls off a small line, but the hard part is still ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Malaysia opens probe into tech commune run by ex-Coinbase executive

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Third Politburo scalp in a year: Ma Xingrui expelled as Xi's corruption net tightens around the rocket command

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Lucknow bets on metro, expressway and a defence corridor to draw tech capital away from Bengaluru and Hyderabad

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Liaoning's floating lighthouse goes adrift as Typhoon Bavi delivers mainland China's most powerful storm of 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul sells off, Beijing ships out: Asia's split-screen signal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's AI-fueled boom faces a leveraged reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

In Kuancheng, firefighters became the difference between a car door and a coffin

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Two menus, one kitchen: how Japan’s tourist pricing is feeding a Korean backlash

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Tokyo doubles down: $3 billion Tower fab and a central-bank firewall on the same day

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan moves to codify central bank independence as political pressure on the BOJ builds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan's remittance record hides a slower, more uncomfortable story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan's quiet espionage alarm, and the question of who runs the room

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Tehran moves to legislate Hormuz security as Indian diplomat is summoned over a citizen's death

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's two-front sprint: women's Test breakthrough and an AI-services pivot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Indian firms reach for Chinese models as the AI bill comes due

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Jakarta jails the founder of Gojek, and Southeast Asia's tech sector recalibrates

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court pushes back on comedian Samay Raina over disability remarks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court pulls a stand-up comic back into line on disability remarks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's wholesale inflation jumps to 9.87% even as US price pressures cool

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's IT services giant says AI is now its fastest-growing line

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's engineering-services exports ride a sustainability wave, while C-section rates quietly redraw maternal care

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's midday newsfile: ordered early galaxies, an 8% passport nation, and amaranth's superfood pitch

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India leans on its diaspora to defend the rupee, while AI bets and a Lord's milestone recalibrate the country's confidence

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's Edgbaston win lands the morning after an IBM rout: a week that split the cricket and the chip cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India start the post-World Cup cycle with a clinical chase, while prediction markets split on England

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Delhi draws a line on forced-labour imports, and a quiet one on the passport

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Fairfax, Emirates NBD circle back: revised bids land for India's IDBI Bank stake sale

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

India's Deportation Drive Pins Bangladesh Against a Closed Border

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Two fronts, one supply chain: helium and the South China Sea redraw Asia's risk map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Hainan Puts a Date on China's Most Aggressive EV Deadline Yet

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Graham's tariff bill puts Beijing and Delhi in the same crosshairs over Russian crude

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

The road up the Hunza is a road into Pakistan's hardest question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A former US special forces soldier, a Himalayan border post, and a quiet intel puzzle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Delhi riots court ruling puts Tahir Hussain’s role back in the frame, six years on

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A double blow in Delhi: a constable’s murder-suicide and a five-minute pothole machine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

DeepSeek weighs a second funding round as Beijing draws a line on bank discount rates

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Copper hits three-week high as Iran-US flare-up revives supply fear

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing accuses Washington of torpedoing Iran talks mid-negotiation

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia14 Jul

China clears one million vehicles in a single month, redrawing the global export map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A Chinese passport at the Nepal border and a claimed US Navy past: what the Indian Express report actually tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China tells UN the US is pushing the Middle East to a dangerous precipice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

London court fight over China mega-embassy lands on the same week Beijing sets a new export record

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's one-million-vehicle month isn't a milestone. It's a re-rating.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

China's property survivors hit a fresh wall of cash

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing courts Russia's next generation while Brussels shrugs at a Belgian designer with a Kremlin passport

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's satellite-linked drones and a quiet bill-discount floor: two signals from a single day

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Solar panels as rangeland: a desert plateau rethinks the energy–land trade-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China forecasts a super El Niño that could outpace 1997-98

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China crosses 1 million vehicles in a single month as Europe answers with a space-based interceptor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's humanoid robotics race goes public: Shenzhen's LimX Dynamics files for IPO as capital window narrows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export surge rewrites the tariff playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 8 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export surge puts the AI-chip trade at the centre of a domestic-demand bind

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export jump and a Pacific reassurance, in the same 24 hours

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing detains US seismologist who tracked North Korea's nuclear tests

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's H1 trade prints strong on paper, but the volume story is running ahead of the value story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Chinese detention of US seismologist studying North Korean tests puts scientific diplomacy in play

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

China’s export engine finds a second wind in AI hardware as Middle East strikes lift Brent past $85

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's export engine runs on foreign chips and cars, raising the question Beijing would rather not answer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing holds the floor on bill rates. ASML prepares to defend its order book.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

China's car exports cleared one million a month for the first time. Now comes the political bill.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing doubles down on orbit and the ground: Chang'e-7 reaches the pad as a new state minerals vehicle goes live

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

European heatwave reshapes China's cooling exports: a structural shift, not a one-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Capitol Hill moves to criminalise foreign repression on US streets

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

BMW's Neue Klasse arrives in a China that has already lapped it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Bloomberg's Singapore Defeat Reshapes the Map for Financial Journalism in Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing pressures Europe on two fronts: maritime law and the price of money

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks three-year freeze as won's fragility and US tariff overhang force a turn

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Bar Blaze Forces Thailand's Hospitality Fire-Safety Regime Into the Open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok bar fire toll climbs to 30 as investigators chase cause through a missing wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok bar fire toll climbs to 30 as police focus on blocked exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok's nightclubs, Maine's detention: two flashpoints in the long unwinding of enforcement as theatre

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok's nightclubs face a regulatory reckoning after the earthquake aftermath

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Pub Fire Kills 30 as Investigators Focus on Blocked Exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Bar Fire Reopens a Global Scandal: Cheap Foam, Blocked Exits, Repeat Tragedies

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

ASML heads into a quarterly update with China overhang and capacity questions unresolved

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

AstraZeneca turns to a Chinese biotech for a lung-cancer drug, and the deal tells you where the pipeline is heading

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Anwar's coalition takes a Johor-shaped hit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Yoon sentenced: a two-year jail term and a longer question about South Korea's political money

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Xi Jinping to make first appearance at Shanghai's World AI Conference as Beijing reframes the technology race

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

The West's $23.6 trillion bill for de-risking from China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Western rare-earth decoupling from China could cost $23.6 trillion, says new report

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Fifteen Indian Tourists Dead in Vietnam Speedboat Capsize: Captain Detained as Survivors Cite Safety Lapses

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

US missile stockpiles strained as another round of Iran strikes reopens readiness debate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

US fossil-fuel power investment overtakes China's for first time in decades

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Britain's grooming-gang deportation test, and what it asks of Pakistan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Trump pushes Clarity Act as China frames a contest over who runs the rails of digital finance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Trump pushes Senate to clear crypto bill, frames it as a China check

Venkataraman · americas · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Tokyo's Heat Is Quietly Redrawing the Japanese Workday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Tendulkar's applause, and the quieter history India women are writing at Lord's

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Thailand's oldest bank bets its future on customers it has never met

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Thailand's oldest bank bets on a virtual counter

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Taiwan's defense ministry pulls the plug on legacy upgrades, bets on next-gen strike

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia13 Jul

Taiwan turns to private contractors for wartime logistics, and the assumptions behind that shift

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing's playbook has hardened

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Two crises on the same peninsula, and a market that priced them differently

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74, ending an era that built modern Qatar

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Russia and China drill together in the Yellow Sea as naval-drone warfare moves up the agenda

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Rochdale, Westminster, Islamabad: how a visa lever could end three decades of impunity

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Ram Temple trust opens search for first CEO as Ayodhya's institutional build-out enters a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Pakistan's army chief lands in Türkiye as defence ties enter a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Oil jumps 4% and gold slides as US and Iran trade strikes, with Seoul's Kospi shedding close to 10%

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Nine dead in Bay of Bengal trawler sinking as Delhi presses two new climate and welfare tracks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Myanmar's quiet return: Asean's engagement gambit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Mylan moves up to $363 million of Biocon, putting the India–US generics trade on screen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Retail leverage and an AI wobble puncture South Korea's record run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Johor landslide exposes the fault line running through Anwar's coalition

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan's universities, and the Toyota crossholdings unwind

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan's pet economy is bigger than its nursery industry, and the country is finally admitting it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Tokyo names the problem: Russia has turned Japan into a 'den of spies'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan moves to rebuild a wartime-era intelligence architecture, eight decades on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Iran's foreign minister frames a posture of "war and diplomacy" as the art of choosing the right tool

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Iraq opens land borders for Arbaeen as millions prepare to walk to Karbala

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Tehran calls U.S. negotiation claim a 'psychological game' as Islamabad MoU enters crisis phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Iran war claims US stockpile is bleeding: what Tehran wants you to read into it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Insilico lands a $177 million CNS deal in China as AI drug discovery matures into a licensing market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

India's wellness gold rush meets a regulatory wall, and its trade negotiators talk past the noise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's women take Lord's, and a fitness warning finds an unlikely echo at the desk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

When the corruption hunter becomes the headline: Indonesia's KPK faces its own graft scandal

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

India's top court clears a backlog lane, and asks whether it can clear the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

A stolen donation box, a bruised squad, and the political economy of spectacle in India

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's trade-pause denial: what Goyal's pushback actually tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

The Indian waistline and the war outside: two pressures on a fast-changing consumer market

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's nuclear jigsaw: the SHANTI Bill, SMRs and Australian uranium converge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's rare-earth reserves miss the point of the 2025 crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's Supreme Court moves to write the rules for AI in the courtroom, while Beijing's military-industrial complex logs three fresh milestones

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Five Indian stories the wire buried: from a Navy frigate’s last voyage to exam-paper leaks and an AI judge

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

India's voter roll overhaul adds a parental-status field, raising citizenship questions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's inflation breach and US trade track collide in a week the rupee has to absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's parking problem isn't space. It's price.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India wrap up historic Lord's Test as England fold for 186 before lunch

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's environment ranking is dire, but its generic-medicine playbook still travels

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

An American nuclear upstart floats an India listing. The hard part is what comes after.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Gold plating, free parking and a Lord's headi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A $450 blade of grass: how FIFA is monetising the World Cup pitch for an audience priced out of the stadium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

FBI–Pakistan counter-terror talks at Quantico put Islamabad's Western alignment back on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Europe's energy system hits its limits: a wind-light June, French reactor wobbles, and a Hormuz shock the grid was not built for

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

The double standard Washington cannot keep calling a principle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Two Hemispheres, One Week of Failure: Ecuador's Masked Killers and Bangladesh's 51 Dead

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi drownings and a stalled Maharashtra exam expose India's summer governance gaps

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's third-party fire audit rules sit on paper while the auditor list stays empty

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's Indo-Pacific rhetoric runs ahead of its real-world deployments

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's Lodhi Garden and the question of where Indian cities end and wild India begins

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's ₹1,000 monthly transfer to women lands in a familiar Indian election-cycle fight

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

After the Delhi riots verdict: what a single Intelligence Bureau family tells us about a wider wound

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi court convicts former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in 2020 IB staffer murder case

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi University admissions cross 2.73 lakh as Commerce and Humanities eclipse Sciences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's quiet fiscal pivot: Centre nearly doubles a 50-year interest-free loan, and the political math behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Two Delhi Incidents, One Pattern of Civic Neglect in India's Capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China stacks two levers at once: a state-backed minerals fund and a softer pitch to sweltering cities

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China fires up a state-backed minerals vehicle as the energy transition forks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's mounted troops ride into retirement as the People's Liberation Army leans on unmanned systems

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China's Two-Front Industrial Squeeze: Property Liquidity and a State Mineral Buyer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China's industrial state pushes deeper into space, minerals and power markets in one trading week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing tells Washington: keep the Strait of Hormuz open, or explain why you can't

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China's capital firepower meets a US power-investment lead

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's 'digital kids' turn consumer 3D printing into a mass-market habit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China’s energy pivot, a parachute stunt, and a cobra escape: three snapshots of a fast-moving summer

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China's graduate glut meets the AI hiring wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China demands open Hormuz as US Navy escorts tankers and Oman pushes a two-lane split

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A $177 million CNS deal signals where China's biotech-pipeline diplomacy is heading

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's State-Backed Mineral Buyer Meets a US Power-Build Binge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing Builds a Mineral Pipeline, Washington Quietly Outflanks It on Coal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China's industrial state pivots from consumer gadgets to minerals and power

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing rewires the industrial stack: AI safety rules, mandatory car connectivity, and a mineral-procurement vehicle land on the same weekend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China's anti-Starlink push moves from theory to engineering

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27 in one of Thailand's deadliest venue blazes in years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27, exposing gaps in Thailand's nightlife safety regime

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27, exposing Thailand's crowded nightlife-safety ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

A Chinese academic's claim to Batanes, and why it landed in Manila like a flare

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok Beer Hall Fire Kills 27 as ASEAN Softens on Myanmar

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Two fires, two systems: a Bangkok nightclub blaze and an Indian custodial death expose the fault lines of South and Southeast Asian governance

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok blaze kills 27 as social videos capture a city scrambling for exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok nightclub fire kills at least 27 as blocked exits turn smoke into the main killer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 as Thailand's nightlife safety regime faces fresh test

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 near Chatuchak as investigators probe cause

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A Bollywood star's Mumbai office flip says more about Indian real estate than it does about celebrity portfolios

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

ASEAN's Myanmar olive branch, and the ceiling it draws

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Antelope Reef: the unfinished island Beijing still has to explain

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Anthropic's rupee pivot: why India just became Claude's second-largest market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Zelensky's Cabinet Reset Puts Sviridenko in Charge of a New Diplomatic Lane

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Xi's Pyongyang pledge: what "unwavering commitment" actually signals in 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Yen slides as Tokyo signals patience on rate normalisation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Indian tourists killed in Vietnam speedboat capsize expose safety gaps in Halong Bay day-trip market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Eight adjournments, no prosecutor: the 2020 Vadodara custodial death that Gujarat's state never brought to trial

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

US strike on Turkmenistan-border bridge marks deepest Iranian incursion of the war

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Ukrainian delegation lands in Taiwan as Taipei courts donors facing their own isolation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Green fireballs, six-pointed stars and a South China Sea triangle: the UFO lore that keeps creeping into geopolitics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses the Chinese coast as the Philippines counts its dead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two million evacuated as Typhoon Bavi pushes into eastern China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses eastern China with two million evacuated, transport still snarled

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits southern Japan with 90 mph winds as Taiwan grounds 1,100-plus flights

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi's remnants set to drench Primorye on 14–15 July

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: 1.5 million evacuated as China activates top-level emergency

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi lands in Zhejiang as China's ninth storm of 2026 tests coastal defences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: a coastal province in a hardened season

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses into Zhejiang as Philippines toll climbs to 18

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi's China landfall forces two million from homes, exposes disaster-response tradeoffs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

The translators in the room: how a quiet literary channel shapes what Americans read about China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

‘I don’t know how we survived’: What Tamil Nadu’s Vietnam boat disaster tells us about the people-smuggling corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Drones hit Syzran refinery as Ukraine's long-range campaign grinds toward Russian fuel supply

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi makes two landfalls on China's east coast

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments line up behind the 2016 South China Sea ruling, and Beijing barely flinches

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing leans on ASEAN dialogue to dilute the legacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments call on Beijing to abide by the 2016 South China Sea ruling, again

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments line up behind Manila as Beijing's South China Sea line hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Seoul's Beauty Boom Is Luring Doctors Out of Public Hospitals

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

South Korea's heatwave meets its beauty boom, and the medical system feels the squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

South Sudan activates first drought anticipatory plan in Eastern Equatoria

Venkataraman · africa · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

Musk's Earth-plus valuation pitch lands as China's reusable booster catches up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Steam clears $11 billion in six months, and the platform's grip on PC distribution tightens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A Pakistani film and a Punjab flood of memory: how 'Satluj' reopened the 1971 wound

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Moscow's Tokyo resurrection: how Japan became a fallback station for Russian intelligence after the European expulsions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence relocates to Tokyo's blind spots

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Putin's shadow network repopulates Tokyo: how expelled Russian spies traded European expulsions for a permissive Japan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence relocated procurement networks to Japan after 2022, NYT and Japan Times reporting finds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence redirects toward Tokyo: what Japan's tech perimeter is being asked to absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74, and the Gulf reconsiders the man who built the gas superpower

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Nine dead in Pune as a wall of garbage gives way

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Putin's Tokyo Front: How a Russian Military Unit Reshaped Allied Sanctions Enforcement

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Prigozhin's Heirs and the CAR Cocaine Pipeline

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Two PLA Navy pilot deaths, no announcement: what the silence tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Pathan's bench argument: why two unproven names keep coming up before India's T20 reset

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Capsize off Phu Quoc kills at least 15 Indian tourists, exposing Vietnam's crowded boat-tourism squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fifteen Indian tourists dead off Phu Quoc: what the speedboat capsizing reveals about Vietnam's coastal safety regime

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan and Iran reach for the phone as regional temperature climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Unconfirmed reports of Pakistani military involvement in Iran strike expose the limits of Telegram-sourced geopolitics

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan steps into the middle of US-Iran talks, urging restraint on both sides

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan courts Iran on women’s empowerment as legal diplomacy opens a quieter channel

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan's mediator role faces fresh scrutiny as Graham killing stokes Middle East recriminations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan's mediator brand is taking a beating, and Israel knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Islamabad's diplomatic language: what Pakistan's MFA signal on regional peace actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan urges restraint as Sana'a signals solidarity with Tehran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan reaches for Tehran as the Gulf ceasefire arithmetic tilts

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Dar-Araghchi call puts Pakistan back into the Iran conversation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Operation Shaban: Balochistan's week-long offensive crosses 100 militant deaths as Islamabad widens the dragnet

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Nexchip's Hong Kong debut is a bet that mature-process chips have a future in an AI-obsessed market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Myanmar's junta tells ASEAN Suu Kyi is 'looked after', and the bloc's answer is a quiet shrug

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Myanmar's junta envoy tells ASEAN Suu Kyi is 'being looked after', as Asean weighs its leverage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Napier grass and the long arithmetic of Marathwada's water

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A rice pile meant for ethanol goes missing in Madhya Pradesh, and the audit trail gets thin

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Marubeni sharpens its India bet as chip and data-centre buildouts reshape machine-tool demand

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Inside the Mashhad press room: how a heatwave of grief became a reporting beat

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A senator's death, a reporter's eulogy, and the new shape of the Gaza argument

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham death hoax floods Telegram as unverified claims of US senator's demise spread

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham's 500% tariff threat lands on India's ‘blood money’ framing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Leehom Wang's 39 stitches put China's live-event safety regime under fresh scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Kyiv reshuffles cabinet, Beijing counsels Moscow

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Kisii to a guarded compound: how a Thai job ad became a Myanmar trafficking trap

Venkataraman · africa · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

An 18-month-old's death in a Kerala hospital, and the anaesthesia gap rural India has stopped being able to ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Jasmine Sandlas announces engagement at Delhi tour opener, fans catch the moment mid-set

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan Inc unwinds: Toyota's share sell-off, a university investment reset, and Hayabusa2's planetary defence bid

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan's universities get a stock-market lifeline, and Toyota keeps cashing out crossholdings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan's universities are getting a portfolio. Toyota's crossholdings are getting smaller.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

A Punjabi singer's Delhi stage becomes a soft-power moment for the diaspora

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

IShowSpeed's India World Cup pitch lands on Polymarket, with cricket's gatekeepers yet to weigh in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Iraq courts US capital in oil and gas as Baghdad rebuilds its commercial map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran tops the field at China-hosted math olympiad, the fourth edition of a competition Tehran has now won three times

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Tehran and Islamabad pick up the phone as the regional order fractures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Tehran and Islamabad reach for the phone as regional pressure mounts

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran's mathletes bring home six medals, and a message from the vice president

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran strikes widen across the Gulf as Tehran says Hormuz will close

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two Indian departures in 48 hours: a singer’s farewell and a boat of unanswered questions

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India opens its UN Security Council campaign, with a longer geopolitical bet behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Eleven Indians, one missing: a commercial vessel comes under fire off Oman

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Vietnam boat capsize kills Indian tourists: what repatriation reveals about outbound-travel safety gaps

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India’s foreign student boom: 47% growth in a decade, with Nepal still doing the heavy lifting

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India's hydrogen train, an Oppie recruit's homecoming, and the other stories New Delhi is telling itself this week

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia12 Jul

Hydrogen on rails: what India's first hydrogen train rollout really signals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

An Indian judge's name becomes a target: inside the online abuse after the Akola lynching conviction

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Conviction, then a campaign of threats: a Muslim judge in India becomes the latest target of online mob justice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India’s two front lines: shipyard launches meet a cricket selection fight

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

India and New Zealand upgrade ties to strategic partnership as Vietnam tourist boat capsize kills 15 Indians

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India's squad maths: Rana's hamstring opens a Yadav-sized window for the England ODIs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India asks Washington to revisit US forced-labour finding as it pushes back on Xinjiang-linked supply-chain scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A 92-year-old veteran’s ‘fourth battle’: India’s veterans, the state, and the question of who counts as a casualty

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India puts its longest air-to-air missile on the export list, and Jakarta is first in line

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

A seminar map, a diplomatic protest, and the cartography of an India-Bangladesh stand-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Yastika Bhatia's Lord's century can't duck the tariff question: India caught between cricket and Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India's E20 push lands in court: what the ethanol-blending fight is actually about

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

India's Test series loss to England exposes a captain under pressure, and a newsroom reckoning back home

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Hokkaido's scallops face a hotter ocean and a smaller market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Haka, Kalaripayattu, and the soft-power contest India is not having

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

Hasina's December return promise puts Delhi and Dhaka back on a knife-edge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham, Iran, and the Senate arithmetic that won't add up

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

GRU front companies routed missile and drone parts through Japan for years, NYT reports

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A five-year-old's anthem, and a region under water: Guangxi's flood season in frame

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Eleven Indian Crew, One Missing: The GFS Galaxy Strike Off Oman

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Indian crew rescued off Oman as GFS Galaxy attack reopens Gulf of Aden shipping question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Brussels quietly lines up a Chinese-supplier exit fund, and Beijing is already pushing back

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Brussels drafts a 'solidarity instrument' to wean EU supply chains off China

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 Diverts to Karachi After Mid-Air Incident on Osaka–Dubai Run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Day 1,600: Graham's Death Reshapes Washington's Ukraine Lobby, Drone Strike Punctures Syzran Refinery

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Two arrests, two jurisdictions: Delhi extortion plot and Vietnamese boat tragedy land on the same afternoon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Delhi's Gymkhana Club faces eviction in a fight over colonial residue and real estate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Cobras on the loose: flooded farms vent snakes into southern China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing's South China Sea Turn Comes for Manila and Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia12 Jul

China's summer grain haul lands, and its rocket recovery programme quietly logs another first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's zoos turn up the dial on summer heat relief as mercury climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing's quiet nuclear line to Moscow: stable enough to slow the war, risky enough to break it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's Nuclear Warning to Moscow Reshapes the Wartime Geometry

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Two PLA Navy pilots killed in flight training, SCMP reports, as China's anti-satellite microwave weapon enters the wire

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket, India investigates maternal deaths: two very different tests of state capacity

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Chandigarh tops India's household-spending table, trailing only Bengaluru

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

China's digital-native kids turn consumer 3D printing into a mass-market habit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two engines, one pattern: Chinese capital lands in Africa while Beijing rewrites the rules of digital inheritance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's 'digital kids' redraw the map for the consumer 3D printer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's 'digital kids' are buying 3D printers. The supply side is racing to keep up.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's EV fleet is turning over faster than its smartphones

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

China's J-16 'beast mode' patrols and a quieter shift in the energy investment ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket, and shifts the calculus for the rest of the world's launch sector

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

China's microwave counter-Starlink play: capability, denial, and the shape of the next orbital contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

CBI reviews AIIMS forensic report in Twisha Sharma death as questions outpace answers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A dog, a mountain, and a quiet question about Britain’s drug litter

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangladesh floods kill 44 and strand more than a million as South Asia monsoon stress deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangladesh monsoon toll climbs past 50 as Bay of Bengal depression deepens the flood crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Southeast Bangladesh under water: 44 dead and one million displaced as monsoon floods return

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India's white-ball plans wobble as BCCI pulls Rana and Chakaravarthy ahead of England, Zimbabwe tours

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing reframes minorities and the sea in one news cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills dozens in Chatuchak restaurant

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Twenty-Nine Dead in Bangkok Chatuchak Restaurant Fire

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

At least 27 killed in Bangkok pub fire, one of the city's deadliest nightlife disasters in years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27, exposing the regulatory gaps behind Thailand's nightlife boom

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills at least 27 as investigators probe safety and permitting at packed nightlife venue

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 in one of Thailand's deadliest nightclub disasters

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27 as monsoon break settles over South Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok club fire kills at least 27, exposing Thailand's enforcement gap on nightlife venues

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills 27 as Thailand's oldest bank bets on virtual branches

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Monsoon Flash Floods Push a Million Bangladeshis From Their Homes as Death Toll Climbs Past 40

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok bar fire kills at least 27 as Thai authorities open probe into cause

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok nightclub fire kills at least 27 in Chatuchak district

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Why badminton's next audience is being recruited in Delhi, not in front of a television

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Canberra's $250m F/A-18 top-up reads as a quiet signal to Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Ayodhya's Ram Mandir trust under fresh scrutiny over temple wealth and governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang and Beijing re-set the camera: a choreographed anniversary keeps the alliance in frame

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Xi reaffirms a friendship that has outlived its usefulness: reading the 2026 China–North Korea signal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Xi tells Pyongyang the friendship holds — what the timing signals

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Yen slides toward multi-year lows as dollar carry, rate gap and trade frictions collide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Zhejiang takes a second typhoon in seven days, with Wenzhou again on the path

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

West Bengal refuses to call the killing a lynching. The political cost is harder to dodge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Volkswagen's 8.6% Q2 slide puts the German industrial model in China's crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A Chinese scientist's death in the US, and the export-control machine around him

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Speedboat Capsize off Vietnam's Coast Kills 15 Indian Tourists as Consular Response Ramps Up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Fifteen dead in Vietnam speedboat capsize as southern coast logs another rough-sea weekend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Fifteen Dead in Tourist Boat Capsize Off Vietnam's Coast

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Loopholes in US chip and AI rules let OpenAI and Google keep selling to Singapore and China, Russian-aligned channels claim

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A MintPress thread reopens the long ledger of US hospital bombings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Ukraine's rowers tighten grip on World Cup season with Montreal gold

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's eastern seaboard grinds to a halt as Typhoon Bavi triggers mass cancellations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi rakes East China coast after killing 17 in the Philippines

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi Slams Ishigaki as Japan Braces for a Long Pacific Storm Season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi landslides kill 15 in Philippines as East Asia braces for a 1,000 km-wide storm

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi Pushes 1.7 Million From Their Homes as It Crosses Zhejiang

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: 1.7 million evacuated as China's disaster machinery runs on autopilot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bowie Pummels Taiwan as Pyongyang Reaches for Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A million evacuated: Typhoon Co-May tests East Asia's disaster coordination

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Trump checks in at Walter Reed, and Tehran's state outlets rush to frame the visit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Toyota's crossholdings unwind accelerates, redrawing Japan's corporate map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Six dead in Telangana after man accused of stalking a minor goes on the run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran's farewell, Tehran's message: what the state funeral tells us about Iran's domestic priorities

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

An oil blockade without ships: how the threat of secondary tariffs is rewriting Indo-Pacific trade

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Taipei courts a Ukrainian delegation as aid-dependent regimes look for new friends

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Taiwan grounds flights and pulls thousands ashore as Typhoon Bavi sweeps in

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi Lashes Southern Japan and Taiwan, Grounding Flights and Triggering Mass Evacuations

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi Lashes East Asia as China Mass-Evacuates 900,000

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Stubb bets Beijing will keep Moscow from the nuclear button

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Strait of Hormuz attack: what two commercial ships being struck tells us about the Iran-file "Ramadan War" weekly

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

South Korea's monks try matchmaking where Seoul's apps have failed

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

SoftBank and PayPay move to anchor Seven & i with $1.9bn as Couche-Tard shadow looms

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Sea of Azov under new strain as Kyiv widens its maritime campaign

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

SK Hynix lands a $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut — and a new fault line for Seoul

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

S Janaki, the voice that held South Indian cinema together, dies in Mysuru at 88

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Centre's review panel backs lifting the streaming block on Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Russia and China block UN Security Council push on Iran as E3 drafts new sanctions package

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Reading the American war in Vietnam through a 2026 lens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Putin and Xi use North Korea's centenary to redraw the geometry of the tripwire

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Thirty-two names, one boat: the Indian victims of the Phu Quoc capsize

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Speedboat Capsize Near Phu Quoc Leaves 15 Dead in Vietnam Tourist-Tragedy Pattern

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Patriot meets Mitsubishi: Zelenskyy pitches air-defence co-production in Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pentagon's fourth UAP release lands — and the pattern is what the documents don't say

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Persian Gulf oil output has reportedly recovered; analysts still see a 7-million-barrel gap

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan lifts fuel prices by more than PKR 13 a litre as the West Asia bill comes due

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan's fuel pump shock lands mid-summer as West Asia crisis feeds back into South Asia's cost of living

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan courts Tehran as Iran-US strikes test a fragile calm

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan's petrol pivot: how a West Asia shock is refuelling inflation at home

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Tell Washington and Tehran: Don't Drift Back to War

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia pick up the phone as Gulf diplomacy crowds out Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia hold foreign-minister call on regional situation as diplomatic tempo picks up

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

OpenAI and Google allegedly kept serving AI tools to blacklisted Chinese firms through Singapore subsidiaries

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Ol Kalou and the arithmetic of Kenya's swing constituencies

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A World Cup quarter-final forecast to break two countries' heat records

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Nolan in Mumbai and the Indian Screen Economy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang frames NATO buildup as arms-race provocation, joining a wider Global-South pushback

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang's NATO broadside and Xi's pledge land on the same day — and the timing is the story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang flips the script: disarmament begins with Washington's allies

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang reads the Hague summit as a build-up — and signals it will answer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang doubles down on nuclear build-out as Xi reaffirms the friendship treaty that underwrites it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Neeru Dhanda's trap gold lands a quiet first for Indian shooting

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Netanyahu pitches India pivot as Israeli trust polls hit a wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

NatWest and IIT Delhi open a fintech corridor, and the global-South is paying attention

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill logs fewer complaints as India’s first hydrogen train prepares to roll

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Nanya's 2027 capex pivot signals Taiwan's bet that the memory cycle has bottomed

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Manila shuts the door on Beijing talks as Manila braces for a tougher anti-espionage regime

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Maharashtra's CM rumour mill: Fadnavis-to-Delhi chatter and the Bawankule question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Long March-10B lights up Weibo, and the question is no longer whether Beijing can build a Super Heavy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang and Beijing swap pledges of permanence, and the signal is the shipment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Kranti Gaud's maiden five-for tilts the Lord's Test India's way on day two

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Kunshan's Robot Boom Leaves a Generation of Migrant Workers With Nowhere to Go

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Kim's Compound Remodels and the Optics of North Korea's 'Economic Revival'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Khamenei heir vows retaliation; West Bank detains a US lawmaker; Vietnam boat capsizes

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Jodhpur’s new terminal opens to commercial traffic as Air India and IndiGo queue the first departures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Japan puts a reusable rocket on the pad, and the launch market gets crowded

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tokyo floats a veterans' agency as Japan's recruitment crisis deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Why Tokyo's billions haven't tamed the yen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Israel's Rafael courts Indian partners as Iron Dome co-production talks surface

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Israel's construction sector hits a wall: labor shortages, project delays, and a war-shaped workforce

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran pushes back on UAE role as Beijing presses for restraint in US-Iran ceasefire

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran warns Washington as UAE export-control shift rewires Gulf alignment

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Iranian crude piles up off China as independent refiners quietly pivot to the Gulf

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran tops International Mathematical Olympiad as Tehran points to soft-power dividend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's leadership-security gap, flagged from inside the system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's math team tops IMSO 2026, deepening a quiet record of regional academic wins

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Monsoon fury: landslides close Himalayan roads as north India braces for another wet week

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India's textbook watchdog under fire after no-show at parliamentary panel

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia11 Jul

A $30 crore claim, a capsize off Hạ Long Bay: India confronts two tests of state and capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Post offices become the new clinic: India tests whether rural eye care can travel by parcel

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India’s Satluj dispute, the Bishnoi indictment, and a cricket collapse: the week The Print’s Shekhar Gupta wouldn’t let go

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

India's T20 rethink in Southampton exposes a selection logic gap, not just a teenage casualty

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India’s T20I reckoning: how a 4-0 sweep in England cost the No. 1 ranking

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Inside the BJP's vice-presidential arithmetic: why the race is suddenly open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's internal migration is rewriting its labour map, and its politics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's three quiet July fights: tumour tests, civil-society rules, and a film pulled from a streaming shelf

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

New FCRA rules and the slow squeeze on India's civic space

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

India flags hydrogen train, weighs T20I reshuffle: two sides of a transition

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Birmingham finale: India and England close a five-match T20 series with broadcast rights, streaming and squad rotations in play

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India's T20 slide deepens as England hand out a 56-run lesson at a half-empty Old Trafford

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi recalibrates: the slow thaw in India–China ties and what it actually changes

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India thaws toward Beijing while Kashmir's opposition tries to rally a Delhi protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's E20 gamble turns into a customer-service problem for automakers

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India's quiet ecosystem workforce: a Scroll.in feature lands at a moment of climate-finance reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India hand Shreyas Iyer the captaincy for a dead rubber, and ask what England are really playing for

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

An IDFC First Bank accused paid for a Haryana official's Dubai and Bangkok trips, and a hotel stay

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Gold in Indian Cities: Why a Domestic Price Story Is Now a Geopolitical Reading

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Fujian's anti-torpedo system puts a new defensive layer under China's carrier ambitions

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

The framing war over a single quote: how a Tehran bulletin became a Rorschach for US-China decline

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

The plate that used to sit on the table: food apps, gig work, and the quiet renegotiation of the urban Indian family meal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

England whitewash India 4-0 in T20Is as shooting trap hands Neeru Dhanda a first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj pulled from ZEE5 international catalogue days after India takedown

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi High Court Turns Telegram Ruling Into a Signal for India's Digital Future

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's ladies' special expansion lands against a Bengaluru loan-shock death: women's safety policy meets India's informal-credit reality

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi monsoon toll climbs to eight as the city drowns in slow motion

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi property deals and the quiet new economy of Indian mobility

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's Satluj affair turns a Punjabi singer into a counter-terror file

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's quota machine churns on: 8,000-plus EWS, DG and CWSN seats filled as a parallel birth-racket probe widens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi High Court's Telegram ruling rewires who speaks for free speech online in India

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

A thousand years of stone, still speaking: the Dazu carvings that outlasted the dynasties that made them

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Chinese warfare tech puts Washington on the back foot

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia11 Jul

Snakes on the floodplain: a Chinese snake-farm escape lands in a year of weather extremes

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing fires a missile from its own waters. The signal is bigger than the warhead.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China escalates flood response along Zhejiang–Fujian coast as Typhoon Bavi bears down

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China tells big refiners to hold output as Iran war drags on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands its first orbital-class reusable booster, narrowing SpaceX's head start

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing and Moscow surface submarine drills, signalling what comes next above the waterline

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands a rocket at sea and quietly resets the cost curve of orbit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's Microwave Play: How a Chinese Directed-Energy Disclosure Reopened the Space-Electronic Warfare Question in Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's nuclear red line in Ukraine: what Beijing has actually said, and what it has not

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Gaokao meets GPT: how Chinese parents are outsourcing the degree pick

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's laser play against Starlink enters the open literature

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's microwave play: a reported counter-Starlink weapon, and the arms-race logic underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing puts a 100-gigawatt microwave weapon on the parade ground: what the unveiling actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket at sea, ending a monopoly SpaceX has held for a decade

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China declares emergency after cobra escape floods a southern province

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

900 cobras on the loose: a Chinese county's emergency and the limits of agricultural biosecurity

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's Helium Export Freeze Tests the Long Reach of Middle Eastern Risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China nets a falling rocket at sea, and the orbital-reuse race gets real

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's Long March-10B sticks the landing at sea, and the launch industry just took notes

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's marine-technology push redraws the map beneath the surface

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's microwave weapon claim and the new shape of orbital deterrence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Chengdu opens its lithium showcase to 14-nation youth camp, a soft-power pivot to critical minerals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China unveils 100-gigawatt microwave weapon aimed at drones, electronic systems

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Bengaluru suicide puts predatory digital lending back under the scanner

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing tells Moscow: no nukes in Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Bavi's march: how a 1,000-kilometre storm is exposing East Asia's climate-exposure gap

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's quiet line to Moscow: the China card in Ukraine's nuclear calculus

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Baloch suicide attack kills 30 at Pakistani military joint base

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Bangladesh floods kill 44 and strand more than a million, exposing the limits of a climate-vulnerable delta

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's foreign minister lands in Muscat as Hormuz tensions draw Oman deeper into Gulf diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Strikes on the Aqteke Khan bridge: what the Iran-Turkmenistan-China rail link actually does

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Andhra workers named among Vietnam boat dead as questions travel back to Indian recruiters

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

21 lashes for a TikTok kiss: inside Aceh's sharia courtroom

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia10 Jul

Xi tells Pyongyang: the socialist cause goes on, together

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

The yen slide the headlines missed: what 152 is really doing to Tokyo and Tokyo's creditors

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Zelensky reads a sharper Chinese edge into Moscow's nuclear chatter

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

US, Iran, Pakistan, Qatar line up four-way call as Trump signals nuclear-track deal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

UN Security Council deadlocks on Iran as Resolution 2231 expiry reshapes the constraint architecture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

A 15-metre neck in the ground: Thailand's latest sauropod rewrites the sauropod map of Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Typhoon Bavi bears down on Taiwan as island's emergency services shift to high alert

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Helsinki dinner, Beijing restraint: Stubb says China is privately telling Moscow not to go nuclear

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

SK Hynix's $26.5bn US listing redraws the chip capital map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Rybar's morning digest: Ukrainian fuel infrastructure under sustained strike pressure

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Rafael's Iron Dome playbook lands in India

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Qatari shuttlecraft: Tehran warns Pakistan army chief US 'adventurism' will not stand in Islamabad pact

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Quadcopter drones over Shuja'iyya: the close-range phase of Gaza City's eastern edge

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Pezeshkian's Pakistan detour: how a regional mediator got pulled into the Iran–US frame

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Pezeshkian's peace warning puts Tehran back in the diplomatic frame

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

In Parachinar, a procession staged for a guide who hasn't died: reading Iran's theatrical mourning in Pakistan's tribal belt

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia10 Jul

Islamabad and Doha reach for the phone as US-Iran rhetoric hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan picks up the phone as Iran tensions flare

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan walks a tightrope between Tehran and Doha as US-Iran diplomacy wobbles

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan Tests a Diplomatic Lane in Libya, and Watches What Travels Back

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Pyongyang builds a city: what 10,000 Pyongyang apartments really tell us

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

The New Left's Long March Through Beijing's Discourse

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Kyiv's signal that Beijing drew a red line around Russia's nuclear option

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Kirin's bet: Asia, not alcohol, becomes the growth engine

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Johor's quiet verdict: what Malaysia's southern bellwether tells us about Anwar's coalition

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Tehran's shipping 'malfunction' line, and what it tells Washington

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Helium choke and yuan reserves: two moves, one signalling war

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Tehran's parliament speaker casts doubt on US talks: 'Only those ready for war can negotiate'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Dalian, Liaoning and the Japan-China Economic Mirror

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

When the state apparatus stalls, hobby drones show up: China's flood-relief civilian corps

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Hydrogen takes the long road: China's bet and the climate toll that arrived first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Beijing refuses to clear the air on Russia's nuclear posture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min