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Coverage · August · 2026 · Asia · 355 articles

Haredi conscription protest clogs Jerusalem traffic as coalition tensions resurface

Trump's Venezuela pitch lands on the same afternoon as a Xi-Putin readout

Nepal rescuers use explosives as flood rescue enters a harder phase

Putin and Xi meet on the SCO sidelines in Bishkek as the anniversary summit opens

Beijing's robot mowers land in Europe while Washington and Treasury fight over a $1.2 trillion surplus

Three signals from Beijing on 31 August, and the question they raise together

Iran lands at Bishkek summit with Pezeshkian declaring 'no war, but firm response'

China tightens property presales as state airlines post heavy first-half losses

China's banks rally, airlines bleed: a half-year of two economies

China's first-half earnings day splits banks, airlines and property

China's three biggest airlines post heavy first-half losses as fuel shock bites; state-owned banks rally on mortgage overhaul

Bessent turns the screws on Iran, with China and the yen in the frame

Bessent's G20 shot at China, weekly Iran sanctions, and the shape of a new US economic doctrine

Two Reuters briefs, two Asian crises, one newsroom clock

Beijing's plateau problem: when glacier data is a state secret

Three August 30 wires on Chinese green ambition: a tree, a humanoid, a balance sheet

The Indian Express's morning feed put two Himalayan stories on the same day. Both are worth reading closely.

India's no-ball row, the student who stayed home, and a 16-year missile wait: three Indian Express dispatches from one Saturday

India's no-ball crisis and a 16-year missile wait: two stories, one procurement problem

Nepal flood toll cited at 670-691 across two wires on 30 August 2026, with roughly 3,000 still listed as missing

Indian Express carries Bay Area couple's account of Nepal flood escape; second piece reconstructs Tamil Nadu pilgrims' sari-rope crossing

Nepal-Tibet flood toll passes 750 as Chinese relief flight lands in Kathmandu

A saree, a glacier, and a border: how 21 Tamil Nadu pilgrims escaped Nepal's flash floods

Polymarket prices two Trump deliverables in the mid-teens. The gap with official messaging is the story.

Nepal asks India for advance power imports as floods cut hydropower output

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat tells New York audience that Hindus who want Muslims out of India 'won't remain a Hindu'

Two Indian Express items, one quiet ledger of who gets photographed in 2026

Delhi's revised high-rise fire code and a Pune exam-leak charge land on the same day

Robot glut and oil glut: two faces of China's overcapacity

Agatti to Leh: what a scenic-airports listicle actually tells us about India's regional air bet

Two Chinese bets, two very different odds: a coastguard war-game and a humanoid robot race

Polymarket's Vietnam and gas-tax contracts price Trump action below 20%

Congress's Bihar rebellion and a Kharge row expose the cost of playing BJP's street game

BJP pulls up three Delhi MPs for attending Sajjan Kumar's condolence meeting as party's 1984 line meets a test

Indian Express tallies India's Nepal-flood consular response: 287 missing, 120 routed in via China

Three Indian Express dispatches, one afternoon: tribal students, Kathmandu tourists, and a chess clapback

Hong Kong Clears a School and a Relief Check in the Same News Cycle

Nepal floods: Indian Railways arranges return passage as Kathmandu morgues overflow

CXMT's Xiaomi foldable slot: a domestic memory milestone with the outcome still in question

Beijing tells Chinese carmakers to chase quality over tech; robot makers hit the same software wall

A Bollywood megaphone meets a Himalayan flood: Bachchan’s post and a family’s vigil

India's capital is on a tear, and now Singapore's sovereign wallet is riding along

An Indian Express editorial argues the SCO 'matters more' to New Delhi. The thread only supports the headline.

Gandak's grim harvest: ten bodies, a 97-year-old survivor, and a Himalayan flood plain that keeps producing both

Nepal flood rescue and a Bengal CM's visa offer, in the same news cycle

Nepal's foreign ministry shifts the ask to technical help as the finance ministry puts a $4 billion floor on rebuilding

Casio to widen Indian store count by 70% as Yamaha rolls out a new flagship sport bike

Trump signs order to design a US Space Academy, naming the talent race with Beijing out loud

A new lake on the Nepal-China border, a flash flood downstream, and a rail project suddenly back in the headlines

Beijing doubles down on property while its banks book modest gains

Tokyo's $96bn yen defence and the demographic print that complicates it

China's Robots Win the Sprint. The Marathon Is Still Human.

Nepal declines foreign rescue teams as glacial-lake flood threat persists, South Korea says it is 'negotiating'

Seoul backs Trump's North Korea track and confirms next month's Freedom Edge drills

Nepal’s border flood exposes a Himalayan warning system built too narrowly

India’s private capex comes back to life, led by data centres, renewables and electronics

Tokyo's tax-cut fight is really a fight over what the reserves are for

Tokyo CPI gets two readings in three minutes

Brazil's rare earths and China's robot bet both run into the engineering decade

Nepal and China warn of fresh flood risks as barrier lakes build in the Himalayas

China’s humanoid boom is learning that factories are harder than demos

Pernod's two-engine engine is misfiring in both cylinders

OPEC+ finds itself priced out of the market it once set

India's petrol pivot to Russia: a headline without a body of evidence

Strong Bow on the ground, phased-array in orbit: two announcements, hours apart, both aimed at the same link

India's foreign-policy week: four threads in one news cycle

Delhi rolls, Russia petrol, and a UN rebuff: India juggles four fronts in a week

South Korea scrambles jets as Russian patrol enters ADIZ; North Korea ships fresh KN-30 batch to Moscow

Aramco reroutes crude around Hormuz as Beijing tightens its tax grip

Japan's two verdicts on one day: ICC asks Tokyo to back the court, and the Nikkei closes up

Gates wants a Beijing sit-down on AI. Beijing is already shipping the hardware.

Seventeen dead on the Nepal-Tibet border as a flash flood sweeps Rasuwa

An Indian Editorial Reads New Delhi's BRICS Presidency Through a Deliverables Lens

China's biggest-ever auto recall pulls 4 million+ vehicles into a single safety net

Four India stories, one news cycle: a bus rescue, a UN rebuke, a bridge audit, and a recruitment explainer

Japan's services prices accelerated in July, but the political frame has shifted underneath the data

BYD's off-road spinoff triples China sales while the parent cools

Three Delhi files in one day: H1N1 review, waterlogging request, treated-water rule for builders

Xi expected in Delhi for BRICS as the bloc tests its own rhetoric