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25-06-2017 16:00

Figures suggest Pakistan has roughly 30% of the world’s total deposits of gems and minerals, yet it claims hardly 1% in global exports. Illegal mining, mafia control, underinvestment and official corruption are to blame. (F.M. Shakil)

25-06-2017 14:27

Masao Yoshida was the plant manager at the Fukushima atomic facility when it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 and suffered a triple reactor meltdown. A new book explores the role of Yoshida and his small band of engineers in averting a far worse nuclear catastrophe. (Todd Crowell)

25-06-2017 14:00

China and Russia seek to maintain the momentum of the growth in their financial collaboration in 2016, and the yuan holds the key to deeper economic ties. (Zi Yang)

25-06-2017 14:00

Hopes fade in China as more landslide victims found with over 100 missing (Reuters)

25-06-2017 13:53

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE send list of far-reaching demands, including closing Al Jazeera, shutting Turkish base and curbing Iran ties (Reuters)

25-06-2017 13:19

Xi Jinping to visit Hong Kong for 20th anniversary of handover (Reuters)

25-06-2017 11:27

More than 300 books have been written by Pakistani poets on the subject of "peace" over the last decade and poetry gatherings in Khyber Pakhtunkwa's cities are drawing large crowds (Hizbullah Khan)

25-06-2017 09:00

Growth in one of the most energetic of the performing arts is set to explode in the country in the next three years, says renowned producer Li Dun, who backs this prediction with an interesting theory connected to GDP. (Elena Owyong)

25-06-2017 07:00

For more than a decade, mules have been crucial in the effort to restore Jiankou, a serpentine 20km section of the wall about 70km (44 miles) north of central Beijing that is notorious for its ridges and perilous slopes. (Thomas Suen)

25-06-2017 02:28

Opinion // South Asia’s draining debt trap trials (Gary Kleiman)

24-06-2017 18:59

Unprovoked, Muslims shouting anti-India slogans stoned to death a senior police official outside a mosque in Srinagar late on Thursday. (E Jaya Kumar)

24-06-2017 18:34

Opinion // Still unclear if US can pressure China over North Korea (Sudhanshu Tripathi)

24-06-2017 18:03

Russia may welcome the rise of Mohammed bin Salman to Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia but will closer cooperation between the two oil giants allow them to control prices? (M.K. Bhadrakumar)

24-06-2017 17:00

China and the US have agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be "complete, verifiable and irreversible", Chinese state media said on Saturday (Reuters)

24-06-2017 14:00

A 4K restored version of Fruit Chan’s cult classic film Made in Hong Kong will be released in HK cinemas on July 1 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong 'handover'. It retains a painful relevance in the city. (Paige Lim)

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)

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Tim I Gurung (fourth from right), meets Gurkhas in a Myanmar. Photo: Tim I Gurung

Jun 24,2017, 12:21

Meet the proud Gurkha community of Myanmar

By Tim I Gurung

Brenda Wong Aoki presents Aunt Lily’s Flower Book: 100 Years of Legalized Racism. Photo: San Francisco International Arts Festival

Jun 11,2017, 7:00

Notes from the Diaspora: an artist’s tales of joy and despair

By Roger Garcia

May 21,2017, 7:13

Russia’s cold war habit

By Vladislav Inozemtsev

Sacked. A man carries sacks from a razed house in a hutong. Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter

May 08,2017, 8:34

Chinese migrant workers feel targeted in ancient hutong clean-up

By Muyu Xu and Ryan Woo

A hand-painted folk portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger advertising a Ho Chi Minh City bodybuilding gym, photographed in 2011. Photo: Cristina Nualart

Apr 22,2017, 11:35

Vietnam’s disappearing vintage signs are pop culture remnants

By Cristina Nualart

Apr 18,2017, 11:06

Blood libels in Europe, Asia, Africa and recently the US

By Reuven Brenner

A lot of organizations will be funded for celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover. Photo: hkcacelebration.hk

Apr 10,2017, 5:57

Where the money is going for the Hong Kong handover’s 20th anniversary

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Mar 27,2017, 3:25

Hong Kong author champions wisdom of the Chinese almanac

Mar 23,2017, 8:05

Are America and China destined for war?

By Harry J Kazianis

Screen grab of Vanished Archives showing a pro-Beijing newspaper headline mobilizing people to take part in the riot. Photo: Youtube/ Vanished Archives

Mar 09,2017, 3:03

HKIFF rejected controversial film for high-pitched narrators

One of the Lai Chi Vun shipyards. The areas manufactured the last sailship more than a decade ago. Photo: facebook/@memorymacau

Mar 08,2017, 5:27

Macau razes shipyard paving way for development

By Asia Times staff

Mar 04,2017, 3:28

Hindu nationalist violence attributed to Italian ideologue

By Kadayam Subramanian

One of the wreck sites of HMAS Perth (D29) that is under survey. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Mar 04,2017

Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?

About 100 "Star Wars" stormtroopers line up at the museum entrance. Photo: Asia Times

Mar 03,2017, 7:03

Do you remember what your favorite toy was? Maybe it’s here

By Asia Times staff

Deng Guoyuan_Noah’s Garden II at Singapore Biennale 2016 Photo: Singapore Art Museum

Feb 23,2017

Reflections on identity and history at Singapore Biennale

By Low Koon Yen and Poo Yee Kai

Photo of a banquet hall decorated with dragons and phoenixes at the Diamond Restaurant in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Photo: Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Feb 20,2017, 2:43

Commoners’ wedding parties in Hong Kong

By Benny Kung and Liu Hsiu Wen

Comprehensive illustrated record of the grand wedding of Zaitian (Emperor Guangxu). Guangxu period (1875-1908). Painted by Qingkuan et al. Collection of The Palace Museum. Photo: Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Feb 20,2017, 1:57

Royal wedding with Chinese characteristics

By Benny Kung and Liu Hsiu Wen

The Gurkhas provided security to Hong Kong for almost 50 years but few today want to remember their role. Photo: Tim I Gurung

Feb 18,2017, 3:48

Why Hong Kong should not wash its hands of Gurkha history

By Tim I Gurung

A man decorates a Christmas tree at the St. John Cathedral Church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Jan 13,2017, 10:34

Breathing without living: the plight of Christians in Pakistan

The September 18 History Museum in Shenyang province. Photo by Chen Juda

Jan 10,2017, 6:17

China adds six years to Sino-Japanese war in history books

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South Asia’s draining debt trap trials

25-06-2017 02:28

Sudhanshu Tripathi

Still unclear if US can pressure China over North Korea

24-06-2017 18:34

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

China’s navy secures its global network

22-06-2017 13:03

The perplexing productivity puzzle defies workable solutions

22-06-2017 06:28

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