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21-08-2017 17:32

Vietnamese state planners say more than 50% of national power will be coal-fired by 2030, a big boost in the fossil fuel's use that will worsen pollution and undercut climate change goals. (Dan Southerland)

21-08-2017 16:37

Opinion // Successful firms recognize new reality of ‘brand universes’ (Marcus Loh)

21-08-2017 15:47

South Korean and US forces began annual military exercises on Monday amid tensions over North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the drills were defensive. Pyongyang disagrees. (Asia Times and Reuters)

21-08-2017 15:37

Opinion // A Machiavellian plan to excise the Kim cancer from Asia (Tom Velk and Jade Xiao)

21-08-2017 15:30

It is now clear China and India's two-month-old military standoff on the Doklam plateau is not really about Beijing building a road in an area disputed between China and Bhutan. (Bertil Lintner)

21-08-2017 13:01

However the case of Howard Lam Tsz-kin – a veteran activist whose claims that he was abducted have been met with skepticism – plays out, Hong Kong's "pan-democratic" camp is truly on the rack. (Kent Ewing)

21-08-2017 12:37

Opinion // Modi’s Independence Day address was disappointing (Kadayam Subramanian)

21-08-2017 12:25

Chinese paper on censorship: Don’t like our rules? Then leave (Reuters)

21-08-2017 12:05

The latest sentences have dealt a blow to the youth-led push for universal suffrage in Hong Kong and have prompted accusations of political interference. (Reuters and Agence France-Presse)

21-08-2017 11:49

Opinion // Superstition still guides women’s health in China (Carly O'Connell)

21-08-2017 09:56

Ten US Navy sailors are missing and five are injured after the USS John S. McCain destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, the second such incident in two months after seven sailors were killed when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship south of Japan in June. (Washington Post)

21-08-2017 09:45

South Korea's new antitrust chief said he has been in talks with the autos-to-steel conglomerate Hyundai Motor Group about overhauling its complex ownership structure, which critics say gives too much power to its controlling family at the expense of shareholders. (Soyoung Kim and Hyunjoo Jin)

21-08-2017 07:57

The morning roundup of important economics, policy and market-moving stories from Chinese-language media on August 21 (Lin Wanxia and Zheng Xin)

21-08-2017 03:04

Trump's infrastructure plans facing an uphill battle; and four other big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders this week (Reuters)

20-08-2017 18:05

Mourners at the funeral of a man shot dead in a police drug sting protested his innocence, while the country's two most influential Catholic bishops spoke against the latest deaths (Reuters)

20-08-2017 17:45

Iranian lawmakers voted on Sunday to keep two of President Hassan Rouhani's key members of cabinet in their posts. (Reuters)

20-08-2017 14:57

Opinion // Could the road from Charlottesville lead America toward civil war? (Sabena Siddiqui)

20-08-2017 13:32

Opinion // High crimes and demeanors in the Age of Trump (Tom Engelhardt)

20-08-2017 12:51

The idea – having North Korea freeze its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the US and South Korea freezing their joint military exercises – appears sensible but in fact is deeply flawed. (Minxin Pei)

20-08-2017 12:16

So far the war of words between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump is just that – an exchange of fiery rhetoric. But the risk of 'jaw-jaw' turning into 'war-war' is deepening (Yoon Young-kwan)

19-08-2017 14:56

A crisis engulfing Australia's parliament has widened after a key independent senator became the seventh parliamentarian referred to the High Court to determine if his dual citizenship makes him ineligible to sit in parliament. (Reuters)

19-08-2017 14:11

On a recent visit to Ulaanbaatar, China’s Assistant Foreign Minister voiced “great concern” over Mongolia’s hosting of the Dalai Lama last November. From the Mongolian point of view, this marked another occasion of Chinese interference in their domestic affairs. (Zi Yang)

19-08-2017 12:54

With Stephen Bannon, the issue was could he be more disruptive to President Donald Trump’s White House from outside than he was within. Now, Trump will find out. (James Oliphant and Steve Holland)

19-08-2017 12:26

The Lebanese army launched an offensive against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria, a Lebanese security source said on Saturday, as Hezbollah and the Syrian army announced an assault from the Syrian side of the border. (Reuters)

19-08-2017 12:01

Leave it to master storyteller Masato Harada to delve into one of Japanese history’s watershed episodes, and to overturn conventional understanding of its key players, the oft-derided bureaucrat-turned-warrior Mitsunari Ishida and the celebrated first-shogun-to-be Ieyasu Tokogawa. (Karen Severns)

19-08-2017 07:07

Opinion // North Korea’s bluff to attack Guam failed, but the threat remains (Michael Brady)

18-08-2017 21:28

For Tokyoites, this August has been a wash-out. The capital has endured 17 consecutive days of rain -- the longest stretch of wet weather for August in 40 years, and the second-longest on record. (Asahi Shimbun)

18-08-2017 16:45

China and India's two-month stand-off on the Dhoklam plateau could spin out of control if more military incursions occur along the two sides' 3,488-kilometer border. (E Jaya Kumar)

18-08-2017 16:20

Opinion // Financial cannibals feeding on Nepali overseas workers (Neville Sarony)

18-08-2017 16:16

Plans to raze and rebuild Bangkok's historic Dusit Thani hotel points to changing times in Thailand's booming hospitality industry. (Peter Janssen)

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A general view of Urumqi, Xinjiang Province. Photo: Reuters/Sue-Lin Wong

Jun 28,2017, 8:32

Security clampdown in China’s west exacts toll on businesses

By Sue-Lin Wong

A man walks with a cart at Chinese part of the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center (ICBC), in Horgos, China May 12, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

Jun 05,2017, 8:33

Silk Road hub or tax haven? China’s new border trade zone may be less than it seems

By Sue-Lin Wong and Mariya Gordeyeva

A vendor adjusts cans of soft drinks made by Air Koryo, at the airport in Pyongyang. Photo: Reuters/Damir Sagolj

May 08,2017, 4:12

Made in North Korea: more local goods in stores as sanctions loom

By Sue-Lin Wong and James Pearson

Air Koryo adds to fizz to North Korea's aviation industry. Photo: Reuters

Apr 27,2017

Colas, cigarettes: Air Koryo branches out to dodge sanctions

By Sue-Lin Wong and James Pearson

Onlookers watch from a harbour wall as the largest container ship in world, CSCL Globe, docks during its maiden voyage, at the port of Felixstowe in south east England, January 7, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Toby Melville/File Photo

Mar 08,2017, 3:02

China posts rare trade deficit as February imports surge 44.7%

By Fang Cheng and Sue-Lin Wong

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