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19-09-2017 19:48

Pledges to spend on education and child care, stay tough on North Korea and revise the pacifist constitution are likely to be pillars of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign in a snap election next month, government sources said on Tuesday. (Yoshifumi Takemoto and Takashi Umekawa)

19-09-2017 15:58

As Islamic State targets Southeast Asia as its next theater of destruction, regional authorities are grappling with how to stem its underground cash flows. (Alan Boyd)

19-09-2017 15:23

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has responded to rising criticism of his lethal drug war by targeting critics and defunding a key rights probing institution. (Jason Castaneda)

19-09-2017 14:47

Opinion // China’s secret weapon: Tao (Jan Krikke)

19-09-2017 14:21

Opinion // Modi, Abe push long-standing India-Japan ties (Raja Murthy)

19-09-2017 13:40

Ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra's flight into exile has further consolidated military rule and could herald what junta proponents view as a 'final solution' to Thailand's political problems. (Shawn W. Crispin)

19-09-2017 12:25

Opinion // North Korean, Iranian nuclear programs: two different stories (Emanuele Scimia)

19-09-2017 11:49

Opinion // The forbidden questions about the Korea crisis (Francesco Sisci, Columnist)

19-09-2017 10:40

China's Gree Electric Appliances denies striking a merger deal with FAW Xiali (Asia Times staff)

19-09-2017 10:36

Five nuclear power plants that have passed safety clearances by Japan's nuclear safety watchdog may be at risk of having their cooling systems crippled during eruptions of nearby volcanoes, the watchdog said Monday. (Kyodo News)

19-09-2017 10:35

Airlines get the OK to use mobile phones on domestic flights (Asia Times staff)

19-09-2017 10:03

Lotte Group in negotiations with multiple firms to sell its discount store chain (Asia Times staff)

19-09-2017 10:00

NCCPC to put forward constitutional amendments at October party congress (Asia Times staff)

19-09-2017 10:00

Opinion // Rohingya crisis: a call to arms for Islamic fundamentalism? (Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi)

19-09-2017 09:57

A majority of Japanese firms are upbeat about the outlook for the US economy, according to a Reuters poll, after some market concern earlier this year that the pace of growth could be slowing. (Tetsushi Kajimoto)

19-09-2017 09:00

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted on Monday about the existence of military options on North Korea that might spare South Korea's capital Seoul from a brutal counterattack, but he declined to elaborate. (Asia Times and Reuters)

18-09-2017 16:10

How to keep calm when everyone is shouting 'fascist'? The shrillness of much of our politics nowadays obscures the fact that most of us don't subscribe to any of it. (Kenny Hodgart)

18-09-2017 15:49

Opinion // ‘Refugee bonds’ could help Bangladesh cope with Rohingya emergency (Gary Kleiman)

18-09-2017 15:25

Referenda in the coming days may deliver full independence for Iraq's Kurds and a semi-autonomous government for Syria's, besides emboldening Turkey's. (Sami Moubayed)

18-09-2017 15:18

Opinion // Threats against China could result in another Great Depression (Ken Moak)

18-09-2017 12:18

Opinion // Cambodia’s Hun Sen a master of manipulative, ruthless rule (Xuan Loc Doan)

18-09-2017 11:53

Western contempt for China turns to panic as economic boom continues (Spengler)

18-09-2017 10:48

Report shows there are 76 'capital families' in the Shanghai and Shenzhen market (Asia Times staff)

18-09-2017 10:43

ZhongAn aims to raise up to US$1.5 billion in Hong Kong public offering (Asia Times staff)

18-09-2017 10:31

US Fed expected to take steps toward normal fiscal policy and four other big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders this week (Reuters)

18-09-2017 10:21

CSRC approves mergers and acquisitions from 116 A share companies this year. (Asia Times staff)

18-09-2017 10:20

Ten steel giants sign US$22.93 billion in debt-to-equity agreements. (Asia Times staff)

18-09-2017 10:13

North Korea's nuclear threat looms large this week over the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York, where diplomats are eager to hear US President Donald Trump address the 193-member body for the first time. (Reuters)

18-09-2017 00:29

Arjan Singh, a pioneering combat pilot and the first and only Marshal of the Air Force in an independent India, passed away on September 16 at the age of 98. (Saikat Datta)

17-09-2017 14:58

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die because of a lack of food, shelter and water available for the huge numbers of them fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warns. (Reuters)

the brief

Sep 19,2017, 2:21

Modi, Abe push long-standing India-Japan ties

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

Representational image: oneindia.com

Sep 12,2017, 9:01

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

By Asia Times staff

China’s secret weapon: Tao

19-09-2017 14:47

Modi, Abe push long-standing India-Japan ties

19-09-2017 14:21

Emanuele Scimia

North Korean, Iranian nuclear programs: two different stories

19-09-2017 12:25

Francesco Sisci

The forbidden questions about the Korea crisis

19-09-2017 11:49

Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi

Rohingya crisis: a call to arms for Islamic fundamentalism?

19-09-2017 10:00

‘Refugee bonds’ could help Bangladesh cope with Rohingya emergency

18-09-2017 15:49

Threats against China could result in another Great Depression

18-09-2017 15:18

Cambodia’s Hun Sen a master of manipulative, ruthless rule

18-09-2017 12:18

Ducking under desks to avoid The Bomb won’t save anyone

16-09-2017 13:38

A ‘China First’ strategy for North Korea

16-09-2017 10:58

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