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Coverage · June · 2026 · Asia · 114 articles

China's tungsten grip tightens, and US scrap flows reroute toward Tokyo

Ramos-Horta takes the stage as Nikkei's Future of Asia confronts a region rewriting its own rules

Three India stories in one afternoon: a city drain, a crash anniversary, a building fire

Pyongyang walks out of the Beijing summit with the bigger headline

Taiwan fires US-made mobile launchers at China for the first time, as cross-strait signalling intensifies

Taiwan fires US-supplied HIMARS into the Strait as opposition warns Taipei is being treated as a 'pawn'

Manila reaches for a sea border with Tokyo, and the South China Sea calculus shifts

Pyongyang pact and a PPI surprise: two reads on China's strategic posture

Beijing’s AI anxiety: PLA flags sycophancy risk as robotics push accelerates

Pakistan strikes Afghan border region, ending a months-long lull

Deadly week in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir tests the line between insurgency and protest

Pakistan strikes inside Afghanistan kill 13, Taliban says, as cross-border tensions reopen

Meta's Reliance deal hands India's AI build to the country's largest conglomerate — and asks harder questions of every Western platform trying to follow

Pakistan's Airstrikes in Afghanistan and the Strait of Hormuz Risk: Two Fronts of a Widening South-Asian Crisis

Nintendo shares slide after Direct lineup leans on legacy ports

A year after the Ahmedabad crash, the questions and the deposit math India can't avoid

Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan raise the cost of a long-running border standoff

Japan moves to defend its seed and sky ambitions as two industries stake out a post-agrarian future

Rural Japan bets on the domestic tourist as the yen keeps overseas trips out of reach

Toyota backs Tier IV in self-driving push, betting that capital and code travel together

Two moves, one signal: Indonesia tightens as Hanwha anchors the first fully onshore US solar chain

China's electric SUV boom is a contradiction Beijing cannot outrun

Pakistan-administered Kashmir jolted by trader killing and banned-group protests

Israeli strikes in Lebanon puncture the Trump timeline for an Iran deal

BYD's 80% China EV forecast lands as exports jump 19% in May

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a two-day bet on leverage, not alliance

Pentagon's China military list lands without a press conference — and the questions it leaves open

Bangladesh's power glut is now a fiscal problem, not an engineering one

China's EV charge and export surge: two data points, one industrial story

China's footprint inside Western defence supply chains is widening — and the West is only now beginning to price it

Algeria's two-sea missile drill and China's thorium milestone point to a quieter kind of contest

China's car market just had its worst May in years — and the EV transition isn't the only thing straining

Tokyo's $480bn Cash Pile and Tehran's Travel Cage: Two Faces of a Multipolar Week

Xi's Pyongyang return resets the China–North Korea ledger — and tests Washington's patience

Pentagon adds BYD, Baidu, Alibaba to list of companies accused of working with China's military

Tehran–Washington talks inch forward via Islamabad, but no final text yet

Xi's Pyongyang visit recasts the China–North Korea axis as a counter-hegemonic signal

Pentagon names BYD, Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese-military collaborators — a list with a four-month backstory

Pyongyang's war ledger: how North Korea's Ukraine windfall reshapes the China–Russia triangle

Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang: a state visit that rewrites the optics of the China–DPRK axis

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a calibrated signal, not a realignment

Xi in Pyongyang: A Visit That Tilts the Asian Balance

Seoul's chip-led rally is unwinding, and Lee's growth pitch now has to compete with the tape

South Korea's 24-hour stress test, in four signals

Rare earths to Japan, beef to Australia: the parallel squeeze

KOSPI halts after 8% open drop, testing the substrate under Korea's semiconductor model

South Korea's leveraged rally and the base beneath it

Tiananmen in 2026: The Cost of Enforced Forgetting

The 80% drop: China's rare-earth squeeze on Japan, decoded

Protests test South Korea's election machinery while its startup engine hums

China's transport-ministry maritime operation east of Taiwan reads as a signal to the Tokyo–Manila axis

Pyongyang sets the floor: Kim Yo Jong tells Xi the nuclear programme is 'absolutely non-negotiable'

Pakistan sends its interior minister to Tehran — and the choice of courier is the story

China's $13 trillion fund industry gets its marching orders

Toyota plants two flags in motorsport: a kart factory and a hydrogen endurance racer

Fars News CEO publicly faults Tehran on war damage, Pakistan talks, and the Trump information war

SpaceX's IPO shuts out Chinese and Hong Kong capital — and a $1T sell-off lands the same day

SpaceX's China Investor Bar: When the Cap Table Becomes the Export Control

India posts 7.8% growth, RBI holds rates as rupee drifts to historic lows

Japan's Palantir Moment: The Data-Sovereignty Question Tokyo Hasn't Answered

China tightens the leash on viral micro dramas

Gazprom's Single-Day SPIEF Sweep: Singapore, Serbia, Belarus in 49 Minutes

Putin's Three-Message Brief to India: Su-57, Four Poles, and a Defence of Pakistan

North Korea Goes 'Exponential' Again. The Buildout Is the Story.

Beijing's 4 June pressure play: Tiananmen silence, NZ travel ban, Tokyo-Manila warning

China warns of "unprecedented" countermeasures as Japan, Philippines tighten Taiwan coordination

Fire, methanol, a cabinet cheque: one day inside India's safety state

South Delhi hotel fire kills 21 as building safety fails again

Trump calls Xi 'a good man' — the US-China register resets, briefly

Rubio defends twin US commitments: $14B Taiwan arms review and Iran war cost criticism

Tehran's red line: Araghchi tells Pakistan Lebanon and Iran are one war

BOJ's Ueda keeps the rate-hike option deliberately open

Prabowo fires free-meals chief as Indonesia's signature welfare scheme hits food-safety crisis

The Aravalli in committee: what a Supreme Court panel, a 31-year wage case, and the monsoon say about how India governs

A morning in China: services PMI, swarm drones, and a million-liked chocolate painting

India's clean-energy build-out is outrunning the grid meant to carry it

Delhi's death traps and the aspirational economy the city refuses to police

Anta Joins Nike and Adidas on the Sportswear Podium — Now Comes the Hard Part

Yen through 160 again: same playbook, same result