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25-06-2017 22:33

Five big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders in the coming week (Reuters)

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)

the brief

Sisterhood follows the trials and tribulations of a group of massage parlor workers in Macau. Photo: One Cool Film Productions/IFFAM

Feb 26,2017

Debut director catches the changing face of Macau

The Winter, an Argentine film about isolation and survival. Photo: IFFAM

Dec 14,2016

Argentine entry takes top prize at first Macau film festival

By Poo Yee Kai and Reuters

A still from Sisterhood. Photo: IFFAM

Dec 14,2016

Inaugural Macau film festival unlocks promise

By Fatima Valente and Poo Yee Kai

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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