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29-06-2017 13:53

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday, stressing support for the city's government at the start of a three-day visit marking the 20th anniversary of the "handover" from Britain to China. (Asia Times staff)

29-06-2017 13:12

Russian has quietly started construction of a new military base near Damascus, tasked with administering a “deconfliction zone” in the Syrian south, similar to four others agreed to earlier this year. (Sami Moubayed)

29-06-2017 12:00

With Japan's labor force of 15- to 64-year-olds declining at around 1% per year, managers are confronting a new phenomenon -- a structural labor shortage. Corporate behavior is changing as a result, and will need to change much further. (Nikkei Asian Review)

29-06-2017 11:45

US markets will be ‘under a cloud’ until Trump delivers (Asia Times staff)

29-06-2017 11:16

Russia will slash electricity prices for industrial users in the Far East of the country to bring them in line with the national average from July 1, a potential boon for investors in the region. (Asia Times)

29-06-2017 11:13

The Australian government has been spying on China's embassy in the country and "harassing" Chinese people to provide intelligence, an influential state-run newspaper said on Thursday, citing a security source. (Reuters)

29-06-2017 10:04

We take a look at Thailand in the first of a three-part series on Asia's economic reform challenges 20 years after the region’s financial crisis. (William Pesek)

29-06-2017 09:37

On Saturday, Hong Kong will mark 20 years since the end of British colonial rule, when the Asian financial hub was handed back to mainland China. This slideshow chronicles key moments since then. (Reuters)

29-06-2017 09:00

Plenty of significant events had shaped Hong Kong in the two decades since the city's reunification with China, but some stand out more than others and here are 10 that have nurtured today's political climate. (Liu Hsiu Wen)

29-06-2017 09:00

Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested pro-democracy protesters, some of whom scrambled up a monument symbolizing the city's handover from British to Chinese rule, a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to arrive for the celebrations. (Reuters)

29-06-2017 08:09

US President Donald Trump will press South Korean President Moon Jae-in to rectify trade imbalances with the United States during meetings at the White House on Thursday and Friday. (Jeff Mason and David Brunnstrom)

29-06-2017 07:18

Opinion // China CEOs cool on the global economy, warm about their own firms (Yiling Pan)

29-06-2017 06:38

Opinion // Ambivalence among EU members yields to China on human rights (Emanuele Scimia)

29-06-2017 02:56

Opinion // Why an autonomous Gorkhaland is best way forward (Neville Sarony)

28-06-2017 21:10

Opinion // Turkey, nexus of US incompetence (Angelo M. Codevilla)

28-06-2017 17:56

Civilians held hostage by Islamist militants occupying a southern Philippine city have been forced to loot homes, take up arms against government troops and serve as sex slaves for rebel fighters, the army said. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 17:28

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte reappeared in public on Tuesday after an absence of a week, his longest disappearance from the spotlight as president, amid concerns about his health that the government insists are baseless. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 17:19

The decapitated bodies of five civilians have been found in a Philippine city occupied by Islamist rebels, the military said on Wednesday, warning the number of residents killed by rebel "atrocities" could rise sharply as troops retake more ground. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 17:18

In a sunshine soaked room overlooking Victoria Harbour, Professor Geoffrey Garrett, dean of The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, shares his insights on US and China relations with Asia Times in Hong Kong. (Steve Wang and Lin Wanxia)

28-06-2017 16:34

Ant Financial, an Alibaba fintech affiliate, is launching an artificial intelligence product that can assess damage on vehicles for insurance companies, the Shanghai Securities Journal (SSJ) reported on Wednesday. (Asia Times staff)

28-06-2017 15:44

Asian stocks may have already surged by double-digits this year, but investors are counting on even more gains as an earnings bump keeps valuations attractive. (Nick Westra)

28-06-2017 14:39

Opinion // Reviving Russia’s image as the “Evil Empire” is dangerous (Yuriy Humber)

28-06-2017 12:43

Opinion // India offers pregnant women the mother of all advice (Sudha Ramachandran, Independent Researcher)

28-06-2017 12:39

A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including “artificial leaves” that turn CO2 into fuel, and a technique that harvests water from air, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum. (Oliver Cann)

28-06-2017 12:05

Newly appointed US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said on Wednesday the United States would like to see Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo treated elsewhere for cancer, and that the two countries must work together on human rights. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 10:43

When the humor died (David P. Goldman)

28-06-2017 09:12

Relatives of Japanese tycoon Kazuo Okada helped remove him as director of a Hong Kong investment company at the centre of a sprawling gambling empire, according to corporate filings and people with knowledge of the matter. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 08:56

Two announcements by South Korea in May on developing the deficient infrastructure of North Korea didn't get much international press. They should have because they make sense. (Robert E. McCoy)

28-06-2017 08:55

Switzerland's Syngenta, the crop protection company acquired by ChemChina, has vowed to bulk up its seeds business and join the chase for assets rival Bayer must sell to gain regulatory approval for its takeover of Monsanto. (Reuters)

28-06-2017 08:32

The Xinjiang region in China's far west is officially growing at a robust pace and is critical to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road initiative, but businesses and residents are seeing little benefit. (Sue-Lin Wong)

the brief

Geese at a farm in northern Taoyuan in 2015 in a period when Taiwan slaughtered nearly 6,000 geese. AFP PHOTO

Feb 17,2017, 4:17

Deadly H5N6 sees Taiwan cull 130,000 birds

By Reuters

This February 12, 2017 photo shows an H7N9 bird flu patient being treated in a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. AFP

Feb 17,2017, 4:02

China shuts poultry markets as bird-flu deaths rise

By Agence France-Presse

Breeders of the French farmers union demonstrate with a placard reading 'Let me live on my farm, I got infected on a truck' in Toulouse, southwestern France in February 2017. AFP PHOTO

Feb 17,2017, 3:52

Virulent bird flu strain spreads across Europe

By Agence France-Presse

Quarantine officials in protective gears head to a poultry farm in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan to bury chickens culled after a highly virulent strain of bird flu was detected this week. Photo: Reuters

Feb 15,2017, 12:53

China death toll from bird flu soars to 79 in January

By South China Morning Post

Quarantine officials in protective gears head to a poultry farm in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan to bury chickens culled after a highly virulent strain of bird flu was detected this week. Photo: Reuters

Dec 23,2016, 4:50

China reports first human deaths from bird flu this winter

By Reuters

Women wear face masks on a street in Shanghai on April 16, 2013 as China's H7N9 bird flu virus spreads further afield. In total nationwide 62 people have been infected and 14 have died of the disease since Chinese authorities announced two weeks ago they had found H7N9 in humans for the first time. Photo: AFP/Peter Parks

Dec 20,2016, 2:37

HK reports its first case of human bird flu this winter

By Danny Mok, South China Morning Post

Who sneezed?
Photo: KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND / DPA

Dec 20,2016, 9:35

Japan starts culling chickens after virulent bird flu outbreak

A chicken for sale in the market. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Nov 18,2016, 11:00

South Korea confirms highly pathogenic bird flu outbreaks

By Reuters

China CEOs cool on the global economy, warm about their own firms

29-06-2017 07:18

Emanuele Scimia

Ambivalence among EU members yields to China on human rights

29-06-2017 06:38

Why an autonomous Gorkhaland is best way forward

29-06-2017 02:56

Angelo M. Codevilla

Turkey, nexus of US incompetence

28-06-2017 21:10

Reviving Russia’s image as the “Evil Empire” is dangerous

28-06-2017 14:39

Sudha Ramachandran

India offers pregnant women the mother of all advice

28-06-2017 12:43

Carly O'Connell

How to keep Chinese in your life after college

28-06-2017 04:20

E-commerce giants aim to seduce luxury retailers

28-06-2017 03:47

Kadayam Subramanian

Finding the road to peace in Kashmir

27-06-2017 05:00

The emerging Turkish-Iranian alliance

27-06-2017 03:21

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