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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)

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)

the brief

As of February 2017, a Wildlife Conservation Society team counted around 69 Irrawaddy dolphins. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Jun 17,2017, 4:00

Last waltz looms for Myanmar’s dolphins and fishermen

The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was declared extinct in 1936. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 30,2017

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the moonlight tiger?

By Jeremy Hance

The Oceanic whitetip shark is one of the key species traded in Singapore. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 29,2017, 6:32

Singapore rated world’s second largest shark fin trader

By Shreya Dasgupta

A water monitor (Varanus salvator) is one of the many reptiles living along the Kinabatangan River. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 06,2017, 9:00

Over the bridge: battle for a Malaysian river’s future

By John C. Cannon

Photo: Md Rashuidul Rabby, Bangladesh

Apr 30,2017, 4:00

Virtual reality spiders help arachnaphobes face fear

By Rebekah Boynton and Anne Swinbourne

The belly of manta rays have unique spots. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Apr 26,2017, 10:41

Wildbook: A social network for wildlife

By Colleen O’Brien

The golden-brown mouse lemur (Microcebus ravelobensis) inhabits northern Madagascar’s dwindling dry forests. It is listed by the IUCN as Endangered due primarily to habitat loss. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Apr 20,2017, 4:13

We can save life on earth: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

By Morgan Erickson-Davis

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Apr 11,2017, 6:33

Whale cams reveal secret Antarctic feeding habits

By The Japan Times

By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Photo: iStock

Apr 03,2017, 2:29

UN launches campaign to take out ocean trash

By Mike Gaworecki

The red polka dot tree frog can glow in the dark. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Apr 02,2017, 6:00

The world’s first glow-in-the-dark frog found in Argentina

By María Gabriela Lagorio

As few as 5,000 Eastern lowland gorillas remain in the wild. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Apr 01,2017, 10:30

‘Endangered species to declare?’ Europe’s understudied bushmeat trade

By Sean Mowbary

Malta's famous landmark, the Azure Window, has collapsed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Mar 09,2017, 7:09

Malta’s famous ‘Azure Window’ collapses

By Live Science

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Mar 08,2017, 9:15

Rare white rhino killed for coveted horn at French zoo

By Live Science

By Gabriel Best, United States of America

Mar 08,2017, 8:32

Bumblebees leave ‘smelly footprints’ behind on flowers

By Live Science

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Mar 08,2017, 8:14

Sea turtle named Bank had 915 coins removed from stomach

By Live Science

Mar 07,2017, 7:42

Why the world should be wary of Elon Musk’s space race

By Alan Marshall

By Gabor Li, Hungary

Mar 03,2017

Slideshow: Top 10 photo finalists for World Wildlife Day

Feb 27,2017, 7:13

3-foot-long cannibal corpse worm had monster jaws

By Live Science

It is 20 years this week since Dolly was cloned. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Feb 24,2017, 12:45

8 mammals that have been cloned since Dolly the Sheep

By Live Science

The collapsed man was sent to the hospital by a helicopter. Photo: Government Flying Service

Feb 20,2017, 1:19

Hong Kong hiker rescued on Buffalo Hill after collapse

By Asia Times staff

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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

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

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