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24-06-2017 13:15

Chatting candidly before a screening of his new film, Marriage, at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan, the actor-musician-“influencer” Dean Fujioka tempered his celebrity wattage with genuine amiability, proving that his reputation for being down to earth is not just industry PR. (Karen Severns)

24-06-2017 12:59

Chinese authorities launched a frantic search for around 100 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwest Sichuan province on Saturday. (Agence France-Presse)

24-06-2017 09:00

India has long been witness to incidents of acid violence and available records show that the earliest acid attack was reported to have taken place in 1920, according to the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASFI) in India. (Asia Times staff)

24-06-2017 07:00

Employees at Sheroes Hangouts cafes in northern India have one thing in common – they have survived acid attacks. Asia Times reports from Agra on a tight-knit group of women who are determined to find acceptance (Anusha Venkat)

24-06-2017 03:40

Opinion // The European Union dumps China (Emanuele Scimia)

23-06-2017 22:00

Opinion // Third-gen Chinese nuclear technology arrives in Karachi (Sabena Siddiqui)

23-06-2017 18:27

Days ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit, Pakistan military on Thursday released a second “confessional video” featuring the retired Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a military court for “spying” in April this year. (E Jaya Kumar)

23-06-2017 18:01

Part of One Belt One Road, China's planned pan-Asia rail network will move enormous amounts of people and goods across mainland Southeast Asia. Downsides may include an increase in drug trafficking, however. (Zi Yang)

23-06-2017 12:29

The friend of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who was at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country, has been sentenced to three years in jail, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday. (Heekyong Yang)

23-06-2017 12:09

A North Korean patrol boat intercepted the Russian yacht Katalexa on June 16 and towed it into North Korea's Rason port until the Russian embassy intervened to have the three crew and the vessel released. (Asia Times)

23-06-2017 10:36

North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that the United States believes could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, a US official told Reuters on Thursday. (Phil Stewart)

23-06-2017 10:19

The US is expected to approve India's purchase of a naval variant of the Predator drone as Prime Minister Narendra Modi attempts to revitalise relations with Washington when he meets President Donald Trump for the first time this weekend. (Sanjeev Miglani and David Brunnstrom)

23-06-2017 09:32

When former Philippine President Benigno Aquino left office a year ago, he bequeathed his successor Rodrigo Duterte an economy on the ascendancy. The second in a three-part series looks at what Duterte is doing with that legacy. (William Pesek)

23-06-2017 01:56

Opinion // A year on from Brexit vote, UK wallows in uncertainty (Xuan Loc Doan)

22-06-2017 22:41

Opinion // West should be more concerned with its debts than China’s (Ken Moak)

22-06-2017 21:45

Opinion // Consumers in China’s smaller cities to spend $10 tn by 2030 (Yiling Pan)

22-06-2017 18:32

Some Qataris are confident that international firms will intervene on their behalf and force Saudi Arabia to end its sanctions. Others are wondering how they let themselves get dragged into this stand-off in the first place. (Sami Moubayed)

22-06-2017 16:52

Sidelined political parties in Thailand say promised polls in 2018 will only further entrench military power. (Peter Janssen)

22-06-2017 16:52

While Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha insists his road map to democracy is still on track, the prospects for promised polls in 2018 are fast fading away. (Shawn W. Crispin)

22-06-2017 16:01

Opinion // Global data initiative: making the invisible visible (Philip Setel)

22-06-2017 15:10

As the US tightens the screws on North Korea's trade, Thailand is under pressure to curtail its robust commercial ties to the isolated regime. (Richard S Ehrlich)

22-06-2017 15:09

Japan opened a missile defence drill to the public on Wednesday, a move it says will reassure the country it is ready to counter any missile attack by neighboring North Korea. (Reuters)

22-06-2017 14:05

After a spell of icy relations and threats of a rebalance towards China, Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte is now angling to resuscitate strategic ties with the US to combat terrorism. (Noel Tarrazona)

22-06-2017 13:59

Russia plans to build four artificial islands in the arctic Barents Sea to serve the natural gas industry, though analysts are puzzled by the location as it's far from a gas field, while environmentalists warn of pollution dangers. (Asia Times)

22-06-2017 13:49

The aging king of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday stripped his nephew – the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef – from office, appointing his own son, Mohammad Bin Salman, as heir to the Saudi throne. The risks are grave. (Sami Moubayed)

22-06-2017 13:42

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is looking at six US states including Wisconsin as locations for a display-making plant and would make a decision next month, top executives said on Thursday. (Reuters)

22-06-2017 13:03

Opinion // String theory: How China’s navy is expanding its global reach (Richard A. Bitzinger)

22-06-2017 11:59

As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte weighs the costs of Islamic State's devastation of Marawi City, another of its affiliated groups launches a daring assault in nearby North Cotabato. (Jason Castaneda)

22-06-2017 11:31

The first in a three-part series on Rodrigo Duterte’s unsteady first year as Philippine president investigates what economic legacy and challenges Nestor Espenilla will inherit as the incoming governor of the central bank. (William Pesek)

22-06-2017 10:41

"Is it safe to visit North Korea?" That was the question posed to journalist Bradley Martin by a former student. Martin advised yes, but that was before Cincinatti student Otto Wambier was returned from detention in North Korea in a coma and died days later. (Bradley K. Martin)

the brief

Pakistan's interior ministry circulated this message to millions on May 10, 2017. Photo: AFP / Aamir Qureshi

Jun 13,2017, 3:40

‘Cyber’ death sentence shows Pakistan’s extremists winning

Indonesian hardline Muslims react after hearing a verdict on Jakarta's first non-Muslim and ethnic-Chinese Christian governor Basuki 'Ahok' Purnama's blasphemy trial outside a court in Jakarta, Indonesia May 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Beawiharta

May 31,2017, 3:51

Judicial defiance sows confusion and division in Indonesia

Protesters hold up a lighted candles to show solidarity for the release of Jakarta's governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama better known as "Ahok." Photo: AFP/ Timur Matahari

May 24,2017, 3:53

Former Jakarta governor drops jail appeal in bid to heal divisions

By Asia Unhedged

Hardline Muslims react to the verdict in Basuki "Ahok" Purnama's blasphemy trial outside the court in Jakarta on May 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters

May 15,2017, 2:10

Is Indonesia teetering toward theocracy?

Former Indonesian education minister Anies Baswedan (C) holds the hand of Gerindra party chief Prabowo Subianto (R) as Baswedan running mate Sandiaga Uno (L) talks to reporters after voting in the Jakarta governor election in Jakarta, Indonesia April 19, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Beawiharta

Apr 20,2017, 10:50

A vote for radicalism in Indonesia

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Reuters / Faisal Mahmood

Apr 19,2017, 5:56

Pakistan’s assault on cyber terrorism is proving toothless

Ambulance workers load the body of Mashal Khan into an ambulance after a mob beat him to death in Mardan, Pakistan. Photo: Reuters

Apr 18,2017, 12:39

Student’s brutal murder shows Pakistan’s failure as a state

An Indonesian woman casts her vote at a polling station on February 15, 2017.
About 100 local elections took place across Indonesia on February 15 but the race in the capital is the most hotly contested, with the top job in Jakarta seen as a stepping stone to victory in the 2019 presidential polls. Photo: AFP / Chaideer Mahyuddin

Feb 15,2017, 7:17

Jakarta governor race headed for volatile second round

Emanuele Scimia

The European Union dumps China

24-06-2017 03:40

Sabena Siddiqui

Third-gen Chinese nuclear technology arrives in Karachi

23-06-2017 22:00

A year on from Brexit vote, UK wallows in uncertainty

23-06-2017 01:56

West should be more concerned with its debts than China’s

22-06-2017 22:41

Consumers in China’s smaller cities to spend $10 tn by 2030

22-06-2017 21:45

Global data initiative: making the invisible visible

22-06-2017 16:01

Richard A. Bitzinger

String theory: How China’s navy is expanding its global reach

22-06-2017 13:03

The perplexing productivity puzzle defies workable solutions

22-06-2017 06:28

Nina L Khrushcheva

For many mainstream political ideologies, the party is over

22-06-2017 03:23

M. Zuhdi Jasser

Muslims must stand together against the scourge of radical Islamism

22-06-2017 02:24

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