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Myanmar’s wildlife gets a new champion

A mixed martial arts fighter named 'the Burmese Python' is set to put the squeeze on the illegal trade in animals

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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meets in Singapore

The informal grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States, which many say wants to contain China, has held its third meeting

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Modi heads to Maldives to firm up ties

President-elect Mohamed Solih will assume office on Saturday and India's prime minister will be there to congratulate him

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Chinese residents can invest in local government debt

Officials say this will give medium and small investors more investment options, but qualification threshold remains high

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China attracts US$101 bn in foreign investment this year

The UK was among the top sources of foreign investment, which saw a whopping year-on-year growth of 175.9%, says Ministry of Commerce

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Bank of China to set up wealth management subsidiary

BOC is the first among the big four state-owned banks to make the move, announcing it will invest US$1.44 billion in the plan

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19-11-2018 03:25

Israeli PM says calling snap polls would be ‘irresponsible’ (Asia Times staff)

19-11-2018 02:49

Fighting between pro-Turkish rebels kills 11 in northern Syria (Asia Times staff)

18-11-2018 16:37

APEC leaders fail to agree on formal declaration

18-11-2018 12:43

Opinion // The Donald and the fake news media: an affair to remember (Tom Engelhardt)

18-11-2018 12:17

Opinion // The media’s #MeToo problem (Hannah Storm)

18-11-2018 11:48

Opinion // Over and over, IMF sings same old tune (Vijay Prashad)

18-11-2018 11:41

APEC summit presents stark US or China choices for the region. (Richard Javad Heydarian)

18-11-2018 11:29

West Papua targeting conservation and ecotourism (Christopel Paino)

18-11-2018 10:48

Avoiding technology risk and the demise of businesses (Henry Kressel)

18-11-2018 10:17

Myanmar’s wildlife gets a new champion (Bertil Lintner)

18-11-2018 10:08

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meets in Singapore (Bertil Lintner)

18-11-2018 04:51

Opinion // Blowback from India’s strategic blunder in Bhutan? (Bhim Bhurtel)

17-11-2018 19:22

McGonegal says trade war with China is almost over (Asia Times staff)

17-11-2018 16:32

Canadian lab helps mission to Mars, grows better cannabis (Frank Chen)

17-11-2018 15:17

Will history remember the coming Trump-Xi dinner party? (George Koo)

17-11-2018 13:46

EU forest agreement with Vietnam aims for ‘clean’ timber (Michael Tatarski)

17-11-2018 12:54

Modi heads to Maldives to firm up ties (Bertil Lintner)

17-11-2018 12:17

Deceased Leicester City football club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha leaves behind big plans to develop Thai football in the image of his English Premier League success. (John Duerden)

17-11-2018 11:30

Forgotten refugee crisis on the Thai-Myanmar border (Jim Pollard)

16-11-2018 21:48

Opinion // Afghan government must do more to improve security (Ihsanullah Omarkhail)

16-11-2018 19:23

Friday’s blockchain and crypto news, from Asia and beyond (Pete Sabine)

16-11-2018 19:20

US denies it will deport preacher to reduce Turkey pressures (Alison Tahmizian Meuse)

16-11-2018 19:01

Bitcoin’s high energy usage could be a risk worth taking (Steven Huckle)

16-11-2018 19:00

Two schools in neighboring states, just about 20 kilometers apart—while one doesn't even have basic facilities, the other is flushed with funds and amenities (Aritry Das and Ankur Tanwar)

16-11-2018 17:31

New, unidentified weapon not aimed at US, and is probably not subject to arms-control treaties - but international news outlets have leaped in with both feet (Andrew Salmon)

16-11-2018 17:27

Afghanistan takes center stage in the New Great Game (Pepe Escobar)

16-11-2018 17:16

BJP’s love for renaming old cities of India aims to increase polarisation and distract people from Narendra Modi government’s failure on real issues, experts say. (Kanchan Srivastava)

16-11-2018 16:38

Rohingya refugee repatriation plan stutters before it starts as a first group refuses to return to Myanmar. (Faisal Mahmud)

16-11-2018 16:21

Runaway migrants arrested at gambling den in Kaohsiung (Asia Times staff)

16-11-2018 16:09

Opinion // Turkey-US relations are better, for now; watch the economy (Ömer Taşpınar)

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Sep 19,2017, 2:21

Modi, Abe push long-standing India-Japan ties

By Raja Murthy

Railway workers repair the tracks next to derailed coaches of a passenger train at the site of an accident in Khatauli, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India on August 20, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

Sep 14,2017, 3:22

Bullet train project exposes India’s misplaced priorities

By E Jaya Kumar

Sep 12,2017, 9:01

Modi and Abe to lay foundation for India’s first bullet train

By Asia Times staff

Opinion

Tom Engelhardt

The Donald and the fake news media: an affair to remember

18-11-2018 12:43

Hannah Storm

The media’s #MeToo problem

18-11-2018 12:17

Vijay Prashad

Over and over, IMF sings same old tune

18-11-2018 11:48

Bhim Bhurtel

Blowback from India’s strategic blunder in Bhutan?

18-11-2018 04:51

Ihsanullah Omarkhail

Afghan government must do more to improve security

16-11-2018 21:48

Ömer Taşpınar

Turkey-US relations are better, for now; watch the economy

16-11-2018 16:09

Sultana Afdhal

Health summit lights the lamp for nurses to become leaders

16-11-2018 13:07

Nicos Panayiotides

No end in sight for the ‘Great Syrian Civil War’

16-11-2018 12:22

Namira Samir

Starting from the bottom: a tale of the informal economy and inequality

16-11-2018 12:05

Robert Skidelsky

The case for embracing compensated free trade

16-11-2018 11:32

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