Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC's lead Asia presenter and worked for the BBC across Asia and South ...

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Simmering political tensions between India and Pakistan have intensified on the cricket field with the India team refusing to accept the Asia Cup trophy from a ...

Grand promises are standard fare for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The latest came after a meeting of the bloc’s economic ministers last month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s ...

SINGAPORE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The boom in private credit and private equity is poised for a reality check as an untested credit cycle collides with fragile exit routes in Asia's public markets, two ...

The World Bank cut its forecast for South Asia’s economic growth by nearly a percentage point, as punishing US tariffs on India — the region’s largest economy — weigh on the outlook. In its Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 — East Asia and Pacific region continues to outperform most of the rest of the world, but creating more jobs and sustaining growth will require ambitious reforms as the ...

On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker talks with Nigel Biggar, author of “Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt.” They discuss Lord Biggar’s experiences in the “culture ...

Russia's Putin seeks to bolster ties with ex-Soviet Central Asia Millions of migrants from Central Asia work in Russia Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tajikistan in ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — When former lawyer Zhang Zhan posted hundreds of videos from Wuhan, China, during the chaotic early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, she became one of the country's most prominent ...

Saudi Arabia is expected to raise slightly the price of its flagship crude grade loading for Asia in November, to reflect stronger Middle Eastern oil benchmarks, refining sources told Reuters in a ...

Russia’s government plans to boost fuel imports from Belarus and import gasoline from China, Singapore, and South Korea. The imports are a response to falling domestic output and gasoline shortages in ...