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25-05-2017 23:47

Opinion // Myanmar’s missing investment law liftoff (Gary Kleiman)

25-05-2017 23:19

Opinion // Chinese graduate’s speech sparks uproar back home (Shiying Cheng)

25-05-2017 22:14

Opinion // Hypocritical Trump fans fires of sectarian conflict (Neville Sarony)

25-05-2017 18:08

Chinese technology giant Lenovo on Thursday said its net profit for the fiscal year was back in the black, helped by stabilization in its core personal computer market. (Agence France-Presse)

25-05-2017 17:45

As her reality TV star husband meets many of his Western allies for the first time as US president on Thursday, Melania Trump will be offered a different take on the surreal by her hosts in Brussels. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 17:33

President Donald Trump meets in Brussels today with leaders from the European Union and Nato, two pillars of the postwar transatlantic security order that he openly and routinely disparaged during his presidential election campaign. (Richard Maher)

25-05-2017 16:54

Now that President Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected by a wide margin for another four-year term, it is crucial to ponder what his victory means for Iranian women. (Azadeh Davachi)

25-05-2017 16:17

Malaysian energy giant Petronas has avoided a credit rating downgrade and financial losses through sharp cost cutting that has crimped the global firm's future plans and ambitions. (David Hutt)

25-05-2017 15:05

Malaysian premier Najib Razak claims his "TN50" initiative will catapult the nation into the world's top 20 by 2050, but critics see a thinly veiled scheme to win the youth vote. (David Hutt)

25-05-2017 14:19

Malaysian leader Najib Razak has escaped a corruption scandal and economic downturn to emerge as the front runner in elections expected later this year. (Radzi Razak)

25-05-2017 13:36

US Homeland Security officials have begun "extreme vetting" interviews at Australia's offshore detention centres, two sources at the camps told Reuters on Tuesday, as Washington honours a refugee swap that US President Donald Trump had called "a dumb deal." (Reuters)

25-05-2017 12:03

Opinion // Awakening from the Trump nightmare hinges on popular revolt (Bernard-Henri Levy)

25-05-2017 11:33

Opinion // Xi’s ‘Chinese dream’ being threatened by imperial overreach (Brahma Chellaney)

25-05-2017 08:55

Thousands of civilians fled fighting in the Philippines on Wednesday, as troops clashed with Islamist militants who took over large parts of the city of Marawi, taking hostages, seizing buildings, and setting free scores of prisoners. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 08:46

The Venerable W, a film by veteran filmmaker Barbet Schroeder stirred audiences at Cannes for its portrayal of the buddhist monk, Wirathu, accused of inciting violence against the Rohinya community in Myanmar. (Fiachra Gibbons)

25-05-2017 08:43

Rubber products maker Ansell Ltd said on Thursday it would sell its condom business to a Chinese consortium for US$600 million, leading the Australian company to launch a US$265 million on-market share buyback. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 08:23

China has fined Citic Securities, Haitong Securities and Guosen Securities for breaking brokerage rules as part of Beijing's efforts to clean up its financial services sector. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 08:04

Senior Russian intelligence and political officials discussed how to influence Donald Trump through his advisers according to information gathered by American spies last summer, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 07:54

A US Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China, American officials said on Wednesday, the first such challenge to Beijing under US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

25-05-2017 01:54

Opinion // WeChat starts conversation with blocked foreign sites (Jessica Rapp)

24-05-2017 18:07

Taiwan's top court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, a landmark decision that paves the way for the island to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex unions. (Liu Hsiu Wen and Agence France-Presse)

24-05-2017 17:57

Timor-Leste's "unity" government has made notable gains after decades of foreign occupation and civil strife. But can the center hold with new parliamentary polls on the horizon? (David Hutt)

24-05-2017 17:36

Global trade is facing challenging times. Trade has long proven to be an engine for growth and development in East Asia and the Pacific, but now many are arguing that this is in need of repair. (Roberto Azevêdo)

24-05-2017 16:54

Opinion // What Nato needs from Trump (Michael Mandelbaum)

24-05-2017 16:40

A trio of films competing for honors at the Cannes film festival mark the reemergence of South Korea as an international filmmaking force more than a decade after Park Chan-wook's Oldboy won the coveted Grand Prix. (Jung Ha-won)

24-05-2017 14:25

The world's film studios are lining up for a slice of the Chinese market, but screening quotas and a spending clampdown are making it more difficult than it seems. (Katy Lee)

24-05-2017 13:46

A senior official at China's banking regulator is being investigated for suspected disciplinary violations, the country's top anti-graft body said, broadening the anti-corruption drive to include more financial supervisors. (Reuters)

24-05-2017 13:32

Asia’s mixed martial arts superstar Angela Lee has promised fans a swift end to her world atomweight title defense against her Brazilian challenger in Singapore on Friday. (Pedro Chan)

24-05-2017 13:14

The favorable impressions that Chinese and Americans have toward each other’s country have declined in the past five years and a hefty percentage of Chinese are now less trusting of the US, says a survey released by a national organization of prominent Chinese Americans. (Doug Tsuruoka)

24-05-2017 12:46

China rejects Moody's reason for first rating cut since 1989. (Asia Times and agencies)

the brief

A bitcoin sign is held in Hong Kong February 28, 2014. Reuters/Bobby Yip/File Photo

May 23,2017

Bitcoin going mainstream as Japanese business signs on

By Nikkei Asian Review

Blockchain is an exciting technology, but for it to go mainstream governments must be able to regulate it. Photo: Name Coin/Flick

May 04,2017, 4:34

Can blockchain, a swiftly evolving technology, be controlled?

By Vasilis Kostakis, Primavera de Filippi and Wolfgang Drechsler

A visitor walks next to an exhibit titled "All The Flowers Are For Me" by Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha at the India Art Fair in New Delhi, India February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Mar 17,2017, 3:35

Could blockchain put money back in artists’ hands?

By Artsy Magazine

Tangible assets: China's latest crackdown on bitcoin platforms has underscored the risks that have dogged the virtual currency over its eight-year history. Photo: Public domain image via Vimeo

Mar 10,2017, 9:12

Bitcoin ETF: how anarcho-crypto currencies grow middle aged

By Johan Nylander

Myanmar’s missing investment law liftoff

25-05-2017 23:47

Chinese graduate’s speech sparks uproar back home

25-05-2017 23:19

Hypocritical Trump fans fires of sectarian conflict

25-05-2017 22:14

Bernard-Henri Levy

Awakening from the Trump nightmare hinges on popular revolt

25-05-2017 12:03

Brahma Chellaney

Xi’s ‘Chinese dream’ being threatened by imperial overreach

25-05-2017 11:33

WeChat starts conversation with blocked foreign sites

25-05-2017 01:54

Michael Mandelbaum

What Nato needs from Trump

24-05-2017 16:54

Not quite dead: how Trump-spurned TPP could be resuscitated

24-05-2017 11:42

Why CIA losses will cripple spy operations in China

23-05-2017 23:56

Alberto Sperindio

The dark side of China’s sharing economy

23-05-2017 21:38

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