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Asia27 Jul

Yen's slide revives BOJ tightening bets as luxury houses reprice Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Jul

Singapore and Tokyo Tighten in the Same Week, and the Yen Tells You Why

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 Jul

Japan's 'human fridge' lands as record summers rewrite the office wardrobe

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia26 Jul

India's protest muscle and the security state listening in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia26 Jul

Reading the Indian Express's gold-import thesis against the wire evidence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia26 Jul

Samsung, SK and Nvidia put $700bn on the US-Korea table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

China's Five Largest Cleaning-Robot Makers Now Hold About 70% of Global Sales, Nikkei Says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia25 Jul

Pradhan steps down after ten days of student protests, but the apology demand stays on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

Assam's July flood cycle deepens as The Indian Press frames the season as unprecedented

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia25 Jul

Five Chinese firms now hold 70 percent of the world's cleaning-robot market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 Jul

Cleaning Robots, Capital Walls, and a Soil Cave-In: Three Snapshots of a Recalibrating China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump Truth Social post ties Xi and Putin to Iran non-proliferation in a single statement; sourcing runs through one Telegram relay chain

Venkataraman · asia · 9 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump warns Beijing and Moscow off Iran supply chain, in three words

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

ASEAN convenes in Manila while Marcos reaches for a China reset

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 Jul

Tehran Frames the SCO as a Priority Venue as Araghchi Meets Belarus Counterpart in Bishkek

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Japan's factories hold firm, its market slides: a single-day split on AI capex

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 Jul

Lavrov and Rubio meet in Manila, with Ukraine at the top of an agenda neither side has yet defined

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia24 Jul

Beijing bets on orbital data centres as Trump unleashes a fresh tariff wave

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 Jul

Trump's tariff wave lands on Beijing and 50-plus capitals at once

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Jul

India eases export e-commerce rules in a calibrated win for Amazon, on a day when Italian unions also closed a chapter

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 Jul

China steps into the Brazil tariff fight, and Trump's AI rhetoric follows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Jul

South Korea's chip-led 0.6% print lands as Beijing tells Manila the ties are at a crossroads

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing's industrial stack is closing ranks: rare earths, chips, EVs and the new shape of friction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Twenty-seven years on, Falun Gong practitioners stage a quiet vigil on the Hudson

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Inside the NDA's Delhi huddle: hard lines on NEET, softer signals on the INDIA bloc

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Shreyas Iyer's audition begins: India hand the keys to Harare

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A burger, a Parliament protest, and the BJP's message discipline problem

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan's AnimeGen bets open weights against US compute giants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan asks Washington for $10 billion loan as rupee defence runs out of road

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan's $10bn ask: a backstop is not a bailout, and Washington knows the difference

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Hegseth puts the price tag at $37.5 billion and tells a press conference that Iran is in the worst position it has ever been in

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Hegseth tells senators Beijing and Moscow are helping Tehran fight, and the read from Beijing and Moscow is that Washington is helping itself

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Russia tops European beer production league for the first time, displacing Germany

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington reaches for the sanctions lever as US-Chinese AI models converge

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing tower crash, aviation licence freeze and a tariff-shaped week: parsing the China file from 21 July 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia21 Jul

Seven Years to Quit, Seven Months to Start: The Vietnam Parallel Haunting Trump's Iran Calculus

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan's first homegrown SAR satellite is in orbit. The harder part is what comes next

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia21 Jul

Gujarat's dropout surge lands the state in the education ministry's 'red zone' as Delhi moves on Lal Dora titles and a J&K bail order clears the way for release

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Three months after declaring Iran's missile program destroyed, Washington is running a $37.5bn blockade it says will finish the job

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

A Cleveland warehouse and the quiet rewriting of the US–China auto supply map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Saboteur detained at Tyumen defence plant as Russian war economy faces internal strain

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

US blockade of Iranian shipping puts Russia and China on notice

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Russia Tops Europe’s Beer Output as Sanctions Reshape the Hops Trade

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

TSMC's 10% price signal: the bill for the AI build-out lands on chip buyers

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

India's underground crisis and the surface politics of infrastructure neglect

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands as Beijing punishes an airline and shrugs off US election-hack allegations

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lankans rally outside US embassy in solidarity with Iran school attack victims

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A Trump-Xi thaw: theatre, tariffs, or something else

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Maharashtra farmer leaders detained in Delhi as protest year opens with a familiar choreography

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Trump Signals China Will Not Face Consequences Over Alleged Election-Data Hack as Pro-Trump MAGA Inc. Builds Record $400M War Chest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Indonesia's village truck fleet plan hands Mitsubishi Fuso and Tata Motors a long order book

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan-Kuwait defence talks put the Gulf's quiet security architecture back on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Narita's cargo revamp: Japan's quiet bet on a regional hub it once let slip away

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington and Beijing reopen the AI conversation, on September's terms

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Old markets, old songs: India's commercial antiquity is doing the work heritage policy cannot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A Lodhi Colony fire and a Ramlila Maidan refusal: two Delhi stories, one political fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Bessent Floats Sanctions on Chinese Open AI Models, Calling IP Theft a Trade-Line Item

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan revives the passenger-jet dream, three years after SpaceJet's quiet end

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Wangchuk hospitalised as India's court weighs his detention; in parallel, New Delhi weighs the rupee itself

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan courts Tehran, but the war drums keep beating

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India's Monsoon Parliament: Protest, Adjournment, and the Question of an OBC Count

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Glasgow 2026 and the question India has stopped asking itself

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India clears Takeda's dengue shot, ending a decade of regulatory drift

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Leverage, not chips: the unwind that just cost Seoul $1.3 trillion

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan walks the line between Tehran and Washington as Gulf tensions reopen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing's three-front pressure test: how a 1-gigawatt domestic AI build reshapes the maritime chessboard

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Houthi blockade turns two Saudi crude tankers back in the Red Sea

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Maruti's second price hike in two months lands in a year India is quietly rewriting the rules of its own currency

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

China's pig towers and the paradox of an economy that floods the world

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Burger, protest, and a spokesman: a small Indian party tries to police its own image

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Anwar tightens the reins as Malaysia redrafts the rules for its digital street

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Jakarta tilts toward Beijing's AI body as Brussels lands in Beijing with a long agenda

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi High Court pulls back from policing protest allegations, leaving CJP case in limbo

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi High Court moves Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung to Medanta as Ladakh row turns medical

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing trims Iranian crude as Treasury claims credit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Wangchuk hospitalised as Delhi weighs plastic banknotes: a quiet week that says a lot about India's two parallel crises

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India arrives in Glasgow with a pointed question attached

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Putin Confirms Shenzhen APEC Attendance, Setting Up First Trump–Putin Sit-Down on Chinese Soil

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China's quiet oil diet: why crude markets stopped panicking

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

India's private space sector is hiring away the talent ISRO built

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as mediators race to revive the US-Iran interim deal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Pakistan-mediated talks open as Tehran weighs response to U.S. base strike

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China is sitting on the world's oil market, and Riyadh knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Gen Z marches on India's parliament as Modi demands a 'foolproof' exam system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Food orders, fundraisers and the long tail of India's NEET-UG paper leak

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran reaches for mediators in Pakistan as the Gulf temperature climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran sends its interior minister to mediators as Iran-US interim deal hangs by a thread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Doha, Cairo and Islamabad float a ten-day ceasefire. Trump says no. Tehran stays quiet.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Magnitude-5.0 quake hits Pu'er in Yunnan as southwest China fault lines stay active

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Lee's apartment sale and the loan curb South Korea wants to write

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Tens of thousands march on parliament as India's Gen Z tests Modi's street authority

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Lathicharged in Lutyens' Delhi: what a student protest says about Modi's education compact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

BJP–Opposition standoff over Delhi police powers turns into a Parliament sit-in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Moonshot AI's Hong Kong listing puts a Chinese model lab on the global capital stage

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Pakistan-Iran security track tightens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Punjab farmers seal the border to Delhi over an India-US trade pact, and ask what was signed in their name

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Monsoon kills 25 in northern India as Delhi weighs a plastic-banknote future

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Washington greenlights Saudi enrichment, quietly skipping the non-proliferation script

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

China races to harden its AI stack as export curbs loom

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China flexes a fully domestic AI data centre, and suspends an aviation operator after a Beijing tower strike

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi police action against CJP protesters draws BJP and Congress to the same hospital ward

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

The river is still rising: Assam’s half-century flood and the monsoon the planners never modelled for

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Tokyo posts a justice minister in Kyiv: a small Japanese footprint in a long war

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's science minister lands in Islamabad for ECO summit as Tehran widens its regional science diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A live-fire drill off Okinotori tests the line between protest and presence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN presses US and Iran to halt a war the bloc never asked for

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Manila sounds the alarm over an ASEAN pulled apart

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Another ceasefire push tests Egypt's mediation as mutual strikes grind on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Iran's women take one gold and a louder seat at the taekwondo table

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

A Punjabi river, a Singapore cell: two stories from a wider Indian diaspora reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Monsoon pounds north India while Punjab farmers march on Delhi over US trade pact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 1991 reform anniversary lands as a domestic governance story, not a foreign-policy parable

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

How Washington's China anxiety became the loudest story in town

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Student march on India's Parliament turns violent as education-reform protests escalate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

ASML locks in talent as Sri Lanka turns to military drones for a public-health crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan to throttle mobile internet in civil-defence drills as cross-strait pressure builds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Beijing turns up the heat on three fronts at once: Manila, Taipei, and the silicon stack

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Saudi Arabia's enriched-uranium pivot and what Washington is taking off the table

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Tens of thousands march on Parliament as Delhi police clear agitators

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Ayungin Shoal, Round Two: Beijing and Manila Trade Envoys After a Tuesday Standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lanka turns its air force on dengue: drones map the rooftops where mosquitoes breed

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Japan Rewrites the Rulebook for Its Boardrooms

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

New York Life's Japan push tests whether foreign capital can still outbid Tokyo's domestic giants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India summons Russian envoy as four sailors die in strike off Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi seals its border and detains farmer leaders on the eve of a trade-deal protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's three-front squeeze: capital gains, rate-cut delay, and the Tehran shadow

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

South Korea probes cyber breach at state-run diplomatic academy as GDP forecast slips

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Front pages in lockstep: how Indian newspapers framed the Delhi police crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Lavrov lands in Manila: Russia returns to ASEAN's table at a delicate moment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Lavrov lands in Manila as Moscow courts ASEAN's non-aligned middle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A Japan-Singapore fund buys into a German travel app, and quietly into a corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Takaichi puts growth back at the center of Japan's economic map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

SBI Funds Management lists at 7% premium, testing depth of India's retail bid for state-linked finance

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Modi government opens monsoon session flush with Bengal win, scrambling opposition

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

India's gold market holds its breath as wedding-season demand meets a record domestic rally

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's Cockroach Party takes the protest pitch seriously enough that the Supreme Court has now had to rule on what counts as free speech

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Two children shot in Daraa as Israeli aircraft circle Syria's Central Governorate

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN's Middle East alarm: a Southeast Asian bloc tries to read a fast-moving map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

ASEAN foreign ministers raise alarm over West Asia escalation, urge restraint

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Manila Sounds the Alarm on ASEAN Cohesion as Great-Power Pull Hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 'cockroach' protesters dig in after Delhi clashes as education ministry crisis enters second day

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Vietnam's factory elite take to the private skies

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Rubio lands in Manila as Washington pivots the Indo-Pacific pitch toward students, not soldiers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Three disasters, one July morning: India confronts a tunnel collapse, a train derailment and a courtroom brawl

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast enters its second week as Ladakh climate campaigner stays under Delhi hospital care

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Inside the 'Cockroach' march on India's parliament

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Philippine sailor wounded as China and Manila trade accusations near Second Thomas Shoal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

US-Iran Tensions Throw a Shadow Over Southeast Asia's Diplomatic Calendar

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Sri Lanka's military takes to the air over Colombo as dengue outbreak hits near-decade high

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan rehearses a severed link, and reads its own market for signals

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Two infrastructure failures, one North Indian morning: a derailed freight train outside Delhi and a landslide that trapped workers inside a Sikkim tunnel

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India's 'material' partnerships: what the New Delhi-Tokyo axis is really after

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Hunger strike, barricades, and a party called Cockroach: what New Delhi's protest theatre reveals about opposition paralysis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

On Day 24 of the Jantar Mantar sit-in, India's protest politics meets its own limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Taipei's civil-defence reset meets a Hong Kong courtroom

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A delivery rider takes China's top literary prize, and the cultural commissars cheer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China's transport push: a network that wants to be a system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Four Indian crew killed as MV Golden Leo comes under attack leaving Odesa

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

A hunger strike, a name written to provoke, and the question of who gets the microphone in New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Moomoo's Japan gambit: a Chinese broker walks into a regulatory test

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Hydrogen on the long route: why India is the test case for diesel's replacement

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

India and Moldova take up UNSC reform and counter-terror cooperation in Chisinau talks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Delhi Police Caught Flat-Footed as CJP Protest Swells Beyond Containment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

How Hongqi's ultra-luxury sedan beat Rolls-Royce in China, and what that signals about patriotic consumption

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Rizap takes its chocoZAP budget gym concept to Hong Kong

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

China's AI race hits a demand wall before the model leaves the lab

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager as chip-secrets fight with Beijing sharpens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Singapore bets on robots and rehab gyms as its workforce tops 60

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia21 Jul

Cool Japan Fund's runway runs out as METI weighs an exit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

Nexon's ARC Raiders hits but the stock won't move: a South Korea-Japan gaming giant caught between two markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Jul

Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou as China's auto war reshapes who flinches first

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Jul

China's AI bottleneck meets its pork glut: two signs of a single supply story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's AI moment arrives with a pork surplus and a $1.65 trillion warning from across the Pacific

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Cockroach vs the Republic: How a Satirical Party Broke India's Parliament

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A quad bike on a grain ship: the Odessa mystery that won't stay quiet

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Rubio puts a clock on Venezuela's transition: early August, the 2015 Assembly, and the levers Washington will hold

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad, and the security conversation that won't go away

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi monsoon double-pile: students march on parliament as flood toll climbs past 25

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

CJP march on Parliament ends in lathicharge, 118 personnel hurt and 70 detained as Delhi police push protesters back

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

India holds the line on three fronts as July ends: cricket, coal, and capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Paddles and a rusting hull: another Second Thomas Shoal face-off tests the Sino-Philippine line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran searches for partners beyond the Gulf

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Stone-pelting video puts India’s hydrogen-train rollout under scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Hinduja Petroleum asks the LNG market a quieter question than the headlines suggest

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Second Thomas Shoal clash exposes the brittle arithmetic of Manila's China posture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Nvidia's Tokyo sweep: what Jensen Huang actually bought on his Japan tour

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A leather jacket, a charity auction, and the strange new market for tech celebrity

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Putin's Pyongyang praise, on Polymarket: a war of words about a war already running

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Ladakh march hits Delhi as three demands meet a quiet state response

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi's Jantar Mantar protest ends for now after BJP's Nadda pledges no further crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Manila names a wooden baton: the shoal incident, in plain words

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

War premiums return to the barrel: refining margins squeeze as Ukraine and the Gulf tighten the diesel market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Second Thomas Shoal, again: what a fresh Philippines-China clash says about Manila's room to manoeuvre

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A Chinese air-defence system surfaces in Bahrain, and the Gulf's arms geometry shifts again

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Moscow region reels from one of the largest Ukrainian drone barrages of the war

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi High Court orders arrest of Delhi Capitals cricketer Abishek Porel in rape case

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

War and refineries tighten the diesel market as stockpiles hit multi-year lows

Venkataraman · asia · 8 min
Asia20 Jul

Two hundred detained in Mumbai as student NEET protests spill into a national question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Kimi K3 is the first Chinese model that Western AI users had to wait for

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi's youth test: how a Delhi protest became an opposition rallying point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A wooden bolt and a question of sea power: the Second Thomas Shoal clash, 20 July 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

India's infrastructure machine keeps running. Its equity tax holiday does not.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

New Delhi draws four lines in a single afternoon: tax, coal, ethanol, and the monsoon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

'Cockroaches' march on Delhi: India's Gen Z insurgents test Modi's parliamentary patience

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Iran and Pakistan reset the security dial

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's man in Islamabad: Momeni visit puts Iran-Pakistan security coordination on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's youth-led protest wave tests Modi's coalition arithmetic ahead of state polls

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Ranaut's Stand Against Opposition Disruption Frames a BJP Confidence Play in the Monsoon Session

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Japan's imperial reform stops at the throne: female succession left out of the fix

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran and Islamabad tighten interior-ministerial channel

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

The mule economy: how India's account holders became the first link in the cyber-fraud chain

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran's second Hormuz test, and the $85 barrel that may not last

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Rohit Sharma's 138 answers the doubters, but India's World Cup 2027 picture stays unsettled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Monsoon deaths climb past 25 in northern India as hill states take the first hit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi government tells parliament ASI ran 121 archaeological projects in five years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast becomes a standoff as Ladakh's federal question hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Two stories, one squeeze: Beijing's maritime push meets a contracting car market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

New Delhi's outsourced consular front comes back into focus after Supreme Court clears passport-tender quashing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing warns Tokyo over nuclear rethink as Takaichi-era defence debate boils over

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Mediators pitch a 10-day Iran-US strike pause to revive the interim nuclear deal

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing sharpens its line on Japan as Takaichi's premiership enters the nuclear-policy crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Cyprus posture and Taiwan language: a single day, two fronts where Ankara and Beijing test the regional floor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's digital-payments diplomacy is outrunning its protest-rights debate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India's parallel courts: a Delhi march for education meets a CJP rebuke in the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's state funds ride in as the equity rout tests Beijing's appetite for the slow road

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Settler raid on Sebastia lands inside a UNESCO vote on Palestine

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi's education march reveals a Dalit-led politics the parties didn't sanction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Chinese passenger-car exports to Russia more than doubled in the first half

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk pushes to leave hospital, join Delhi march on day 23 of climate fast

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

South Korea joins evacuation chorus from West Asia as regional escalation talk outruns the evidence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran sends its interior minister to Islamabad with a message from Pezeshkian

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Iran's three-front opening: Pakistan visit, prisoner denial, and a Yemen air corridor push

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Two Indian High Courts, Two Quiet Bombshells on Rights and Records

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou, a quiet vote in China's industrial gravity well

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tehran keeps the Houthi line open: what Momeni's Islamabad trip tells us about Iran's regional perimeter

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Russia strikes Turkish cargo ship GOLDEN LEO off Odessa, killing five

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China keeps heavy rare earths off the table for Japan, with export data widening the silence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi High Court weighs state force-feeding against Sonam Wangchuk's right to fast

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Manesar engineer named, Delhi High Court orders CBSE birth-record fix, and a swelling Jantar Mantar crowd tests police arithmetic

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's bunker-fuel surge and orbital compute bet: two signals of a state picking its seams

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Spain's second World Cup, by way of Delhi: how a Sunday final in the subcontinent's viewing economy ended at Lusail

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Leh-Delhi march reaches the capital as Ladakh's autonomy fight enters a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Seoul's AI ETF stumble leaves a zombie product in its wake

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Sindhu's Japan Open title and a shrinking Yamuna: two Indian stories, one week, and the questions underneath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Modi government opens monsoon parliament under a cloud of protests, leaks and a fortified capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

US scrambles F-35s and F-16s from European bases as Washington edges back toward open war with Iran

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Beijing's AI governance push lands in a week crowded with US pressure on Indian tech

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

A city under lockdown, a ceiling fan, a Bollywood shrug: Delhi on July 20

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Nolan's Odyssey opens to a record global weekend as India weighs deeper ties with Tehran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

A quake in Kermanshah, a rally in Tokyo: two scenes from Iran's long July

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Delhi march tests Modi's grip on a youth electorate fed up with paper leaks

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

A Tokyo rally for Tehran: how Japan's Iran solidarity scene maps onto a wider Asian fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

A saffron hue for Bihar's model schools, and a BJP ally's quiet objection

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

ASEAN's unity test runs through Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

India's auto-parts kingmakers: how Minda is stitching the JV pipeline for foreign OEMs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's three-front race: orbital compute, climate theatre, and the AI distillation fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

India tells its citizens to leave Iran as US strikes enter a ninth night

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia20 Jul

China's asteroid interceptor and the new geometry of strategic reach

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Cairo's monorail opens long, runs empty

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

Kyushu's semiconductor build-out draws Japan's financial giants into the chip corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Two delegations, one deficit: how America is losing the China conversation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's new global AI body, and what India reads into it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Tokyo's quiet tilt: why a Japan-India joint statement rattled Islamabad

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Infantino floats US-China World Cup pairing as FIFA positions itself as 'happiness provider'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Casio's cheap-watch bet is paying off, and the share price knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's swing-buyer playbook steadies crude after Strait of Hormuz scare

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

America is running out of China hands, and the trip wires are starting to show

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

China's AI stack is splitting in two: satellites in orbit, small firms out in front

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 Jul

The $5 million that bought NVIDIA its runway

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

Plagiarism verdict, prediction markets and a Kimi model: three data points on China's AI-cultural moment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Japan's GPIF rumour moves a yen that policy couldn't

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 Jul

China's 1,000-satellite orbital bet lands while AI row with Washington stays open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Jul

Iraq's $60bn Hormuz Bypass Sits Between a US Strike on Iran and a Blockaded Strait

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Anutin's Beijing week: Thailand tests the limits of its China hedge

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Balochistan's long war returns to the headlines, with the minerals underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Lai’s ‘not China’s Taiwan’ line lands on a knife-edge weekend in Taipei

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Balochistan's long war resurfaces, and the minerals underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Twenty-five thousand march in Tokyo as Japan debates its own remilitarisation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

New Delhi bars 'Cockroach' march on parliament as opposition tests Modi's street

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi police block 'Cockroach' march on parliament as India's satire party tests the edges of protest law

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Bangladesh seal T20 series in Zimbabwe as bowling depth carries the day

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

A Taiwan Strait War Game With Real Stakes: What a Quito Think Tank Just Signalled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

The Targeting Logic Behind an Iran–Russia Intelligence Loop

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Shadow fleet thins out: SBU pressure empties Black Sea anchorages

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump defends US soldier deaths in Iran war with a population-scale comparison

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi Police block CJP march on Parliament, setting up a confrontation over civil liberties in the Indian capital

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump tells the New York Post the Iran war is worth American lives: what the interview actually said

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

When two names become a talking point: Trump, Vietnam, and the cost of borrowing grief

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's Russia pledge lands at the Kremlin with the war grinding on

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi calls for UN 'revitalisation' at BRICS summit, signalling China's pitch for a wider institutional rewrite

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's oil keeps moving

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's quietest signal yet: a leaked readout, an Indian bazaar, and a question Washington won't answer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump's 'Eurasian Axis' Label Sticks to a Tie That Predates the Slogan

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's foreign minister lands in Moscow and renews the 'until victory' pledge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Bangladesh seals T20 series in Zimbabwe as newer batting core finds away form

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

House committee report revives China nuclear-espionage debate, with Beijing's riposte already filed

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Lai tells DPP to resist Beijing's 'red terror' as Taiwan party convention opens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Who pulled the trigger on al-Udeid? A reported Iranian strike on the US Gulf base reopens the China–Russia question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Kazakhstan summons Ukraine's envoy over Black Sea strikes on Caspian oil flows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

The ceasefire that wasn't: a US-Iran unraveling, and why New Delhi is recalculating

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia19 Jul

Indonesia boat sinking off Mentawai leaves 18 missing as rescuers pull seven from the water

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

The bookshelves Kashmir is not allowed to read

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's confidence play: a Georgetown professor's vow and the long shadow of Vietnam

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump threatens sanctions on Iranian oil buyers as Beijing flags 25-year supply pact

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran returns six medals from Shanghai as the maths olympiad's geopolitics sharpen

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Pyongyang's loyalty pledge to Moscow redraws the Korea question

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Ukraine's 47th Brigade leans on STRIX loitering munitions as FPV crews rack up armour kills

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Kimi K3 Reshapes the AI Race as Compute Capacity Becomes the New Bottleneck

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India watches from the gallery as the US-Iran ceasefire collapses in a week

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Cheap Chinese AI tokens now route a measurable slice of US demand through OpenRouter

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

The Raipur Reach: When Commuters Take Train Safety Into Their Own Hands

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

WhatsApp, the boss scam, and an AI memory crunch: three threads pulling India’s consumer internet into 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Inside the Jantar Mantar mobilisation: why India's capital is filling with out-of-state protesters

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

China's Treasury sell-off is small, slow, and very loud

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi High Court refuses to shift Sonam Wangchuk to private hospital, drawing a quietly drawn line between state custody and family discretion

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A two-faced cat in China, and the science behind the split

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sanjiangyuan in summer: how China's high-altitude reserve is being reshaped by climate, herds and cameras

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Driving tests on the China-Afghanistan frontier: why a viral clip from Kabul is doing more than a hundred op-eds

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India's World Cup mornings: a generational inheritance and the ghost of 1994

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

British Steel nationalisation drags London into a fight with Beijing it did not pick

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India's hydrogen push stalls at the diesel rope, Australia steps in on uranium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A hunger strike at DU and the politics of who gets heard in Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Delhi march puts Ladakh back on India's front line

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Farage concedes fraudster Cottrell bankrolled pre-election filming and gave him a home

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A Black Sea port signs a partnership memo. The map it sits on has changed.

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Bumrah's absence exposes India's pace-bowling fragility at Lord's

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Sanctions Overreach Returns to the Dollar Debate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Tehran's tanker window: how Iran moved roughly 70 million barrels before the US blockade snapped back

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

China's Kimi K3 forces a valuation repricing on Anthropic, and a rethink on what "open" means

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India's Gen Z protesters head for parliament as a parallel economy of scams and AI squeezes the same young workforce

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

A beer pump in Qingdao, and the soft-power logic behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

China's summer box office crosses 4 billion yuan, and the soft-power math is the real story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

More rain on the way: southern China landslide search grinds on as forecasters warn of renewed downpours

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India's cholesterol crisis and the long shadow of 1962

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

P V Sindhu becomes first Indian to win the Japan Open

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

Logistics, not chips: why Beijing is weaponising the supply chain's plumbing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Strings in Common: A China-US Youth Ensemble Plays the Long Game in Shanghai

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

A death in Hyderabad and the pressure on India’s tech workforce

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India adds a gold and three silvers at the 2026 Biology Olympiad, rounding out a strong science-olympiad season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing cuts cocoa duties as zero-tariff regime reshapes West African trade with China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India's cholesterol problem is bigger than its cricket summer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Jingye's British Steel Claim Reopens the Question of What a Nationalised Foreign Investor Is Owed

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Gandhi's Jantar Mantar stand puts Sonam Wangchuk back at the centre of India's protest map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

How China's Beidou Became Tehran's Silent Battlefield Advantage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Twelve dead as Jammu and Kashmir floods cut off mountain villages

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Monsoon intensifies over north-west, central and eastern India as IMD flags flash-flood risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Moscow reaches for Beijing's cover: why Russia's 'balanced China' line matters more than it sounds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Jammu and Kashmir flash floods kill ten as Abdullah cuts Delhi trip short for statehood protest

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Merz names China alongside Russia as core EU threat, redrawing Berlin's risk map

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India at Lord’s: Rohit and Kohli close on a 400-match milestone that says less about them than about Indian cricket’s depth

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Jakarta's deportation of a Palestinian activist lands in Cyprus, with an extradition question still open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

A Saudi nuclear deal, a Telegram post, and the question the West keeps dodging

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Trump’s renewed Iran campaign and the limits of American escalation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's robotics teams post strong results at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Kyiv's shadow-fleet strike puts India's and China's Russian oil imports back in the frame

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Twenty Tankers and Six Billion Dollars: Iran's Oil Sprint Out of the US Blockade

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Supreme Court pauses Pakistan-border demolitions for two weeks as a separate US gun case moves through markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Why Arunachal Pradesh is searching for Sonam Wangchuk

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

BeiDou in Iranian hands: how a Chinese satellite grid is rewriting Gulf targeting math

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China's orbital data bet revives a familiar charge: who is distilling whom?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing tightens the spigot: what China's new cross-border rules mean for HSBC, AIA and the Hong Kong listing pipeline

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Jingye's British Steel Gambit: A Chinese Owner Asks Westminster to Pay for the Squeeze

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

The Atlantic sees a tell in Trump's election-meddling routine. Tehran smells one too.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk’s wife moves Delhi High Court to shift him out of Safdarjung Hospital, citing lost faith in treatment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

PV Sindhu's Japan Open win lands at a hinge moment for Indian badminton

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

More rain forecast for southern China as rescue crews dig through a Chongqing landslide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi Jinping pitches Beijing as the rule-maker for global AI, and most capitals are listening

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi police tighten the screws on Jantar Mantar as monsoon crowds test India’s protest geography

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Xi tells WIC China will "lead the world" in AI, in technology and in the rules around it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

When the robots fight, who owns the spectacle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Nintendo's Pokémon patent loss in Japan exposes a thinner moat than the brand suggests

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

The $30 Million Bet That Almost Cost Sega Everything: A Forgotten Chapter in SoftBank's Rise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Maharashtra's bus fare hike lands in a state already running on fumes

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Manjot Kalra arrest puts Delhi Police back in the spotlight on cricket corruption

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

Beijing turns to AI companion apps as a demographic lever, and moves to regulate the feelings they provoke

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Tata's Vadodara line rolls out India's first military transport built outside state-owned hangar walls

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

China logs another record grain harvest, and the politics of feeding 1.4 billion people gets quietly harder

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sindhu reclaims Japan Open title, putting Tokyo's badminton summer back on the front pages

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Two American deaths, one comparison: Trump's Vietnam line on Iran losses

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Wujiang landslide leaves a Chinese province scrambling as rescue crews push into the third day

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Inside the Gudapakkam workshop stitching quiet back into Indian craft

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India's Olympiad haul: four golds at IChO 2026, with JEE Advanced topper among the winners

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Saudi uranium, Indian monsoon, Delhi private-school rules: three reads on a single Sunday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Delhi University’s Round 1 admissions close with 79,000 acceptances, and the real bottleneck is still ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Wilkerson's wager: a former US colonel says China wins a full-scale war, and a dissatisfied Global South lets it happen

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

India widens Sri Lanka tax net, as five-gold Olympiad haul signals a deeper science push

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Detentions, school rules, and the load-bearing maths of India's internal geography

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia19 Jul

Vikram-1 lifts off: India’s private sector reaches orbit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India reaches orbit with a privately built rocket, but a memory crunch is squeezing the phones that put it on the map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's New Missile Profile Reshapes the Calculus for U.S. and Israeli Air Defences

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

China's orbital AI bet lands the same week its terrestrial model rattles Silicon Valley valuations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Explosion at Gujarat fireworks factory kills eight as India confronts a recurring industrial safety record

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Shorts in the office: Tokyo's small dress-code reform meets a very Japanese resistance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

The Uber driver and the algorithm: a small human story in the gig economy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Jul

A Nobel chemist's China endorsement lands in the middle of an AI race already tilted east

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

India's smartphone squeeze signals a wider AI-driven memory crunch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

India puts a private rocket on the pad, and a smartphone market under pressure

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Maharashtra rewrites the school bus rulebook: live tracking, CCTV, capped fares

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Sri Lanka's tax-treaty fix and the new geometry of South Asian fraud

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Iran's U18 volleyballers win eighth Asian crown as Tehran leans into sport as soft power

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Leh's climate scientist fasts against his own state: Sonam Wangchuk and the long shadow of Ladakh's autonomy demand

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Manila Calls Out Beijing Over AI Cartoon as South China Sea Tensions Find a New Front

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Anthropic's valuation wobbles, Kimi K3 panics the room: the distillation fight is now a market fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Drone rules tighten in Chinese cities as wartime Ukraine lessons filter into Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Ten goals, a hat-trick, and a bronze: England's frantic farewell tournament sets the template for the cycle ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

New Delhi's austerity recruits: how India's army cost cuts stranded a generation of 'Agniveer' hopefuls

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia19 Jul

Kawasaki Heavy bets that hydrogen can rebuild Japan's petrochemical backbone

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia19 Jul

India’s AI Boom Is Quietly Reshaping Its Smartphone Market, and Its Fraud Economy

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Jul

Anthropic's valuation repriced as China's Kimi K3 redraws the AI competitive map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Moscow rebukes Tokyo over drone cooperation with Kyiv, calls it contribution to Russian civilian deaths

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia18 Jul

England three up on France inside the opening 45 as prediction markets hang on every word

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Ukrainian long-range strikes hit Wildberries logistics sites inside Russia

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Uyghur exile government backs Myanmar's shadow state, framing Beijing as common enemy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran's missile adaptation puts Washington on the back foot

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran’s Beijing Bind: How China Keeps Iran on a Short Leash

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike reaches a breaking point in New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A retired admiral says Washington has no strategy on Iran. The Pentagon's silence is the louder signal.

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India’s World Cup Drought Returns a Familiar Question: Where Are the Finishers?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Eight pulled from rubble as Chongqing landslide exposes the limits of China's rural-rescue model

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Russia–Iran financial wiring surfaces as Middle East strikes keep Gulf bases on edge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Tehran's precision strikes on Israeli-linked sites raise an awkward question inside CENTCOM: who is helping Iran aim?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's Missile and Drone Barrage on US Bases in Jordan Reignites Debate Over Escalation Calculus

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Kimi K3 lands, Anthropic slips, and the distillation fight goes loud

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

WSJ: US Officials Probe Whether Russia or China Are Helping Iran Hit American Targets With Maneuverable Missiles

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

India's squad shuffle tests bench depth before the World Cup

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Wangchuk removed from Jantar Mantar: Gandhi accuses Modi government of muting Ladakh's loudest climate voice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Tokyo draws a flag, Japan draws a line: the new law against desecration and the questions it leaves open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Weather as weapon: the slow militarisation of the atmosphere

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's private rocket lifts, its phones stall, and its executives get impersonated: three signals from one week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

China's visa gamble: Beijing opens the door to the world's tourists

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's flag-desecration ban lands as Tokyo widens the space for speech that costs nothing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing warns London over British Steel nationalisation, signals measured retaliation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Pakistan's diplomacy push with Kuwait keeps 'territorial sovereignty' framing at the centre of regional talks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Moonshot's 2.8 trillion-parameter release rewrites the open-weight frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A party office, a bulldozer, and the optics of power in West Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sri Lanka's missing port: why a maritime nation sits outside the shipping map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Ratcliffe's GDP jab rests on a method he didn't name

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Birmingham flagbearers land as coalition math gets loud in Maharashtra

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Merz in three sentences: the Europe Washington can no longer take for granted

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Xi’s military hardware push forces Washington to confront a defence-tech gap it can no longer ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Commonwealth Games flagbearers signal a state project that has outgrown its federation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Kerala's rooftop solar boom runs into a grid it cannot yet absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Taipei weighs new USVs and drones for the coast guard as cross-strait pressure mounts

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Taiwan bets on unmanned coast guard fleet as sea-drone contracts move to U.S. suppliers

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Ahmedabad blaze, a Tamil idli-dosa hybrid and an undersea TBM: the three India stories that quietly defined Friday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Yes Bank's 34% profit jump lands inside an Indian smartphone squeeze and an AI-spending concentration that still touches only 2% of US households

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's junior spikers take Asia unbeaten, eighth continental title tucked away

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Wilkerson's "dark reality" claim puts US-Iran war back in the China frame

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Got Latent, episode three: a viral moment, a familiar problem

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's envoy in Islamabad declares war resumed, accusing Washington of breaching the 14-point memorandum

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's flag-desecration ban lands as Ontario stocks up on water bombers: two very different rule-making impulses

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi's air and a detained engineer: two stories that frame India's climate politics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's two hot summers: salt pan labour and an AI-driven memory squeeze reshape the cost of basics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Two river rescues, one monsoon: how Asia's urban flood drills are outpaced by the climate

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Congress faces an INDIA bloc with fewer allies and a narrower runway

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Iran's missile test footage and a Capitol jab at Trump: two currents crossing on 18 July

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Tasnim frames US gas prices and a $42m-an-hour war bill as the cost of confronting Iran

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

AI memory crunch and a 34% profit jump: India’s consumer-tech squeeze has two very different winners

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Hydrogen on the Jind–Sonipat line: what India’s first green train tells us about the politics of Punjab’s rail promise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Inside the India jobs reshuffle that turns a failed exam into a parallel civil service

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Laos methanol deaths and China's AI companion rules: two very different answers to a population crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's Leh fast puts Modi government on notice in Ladakh

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi’s ITO twin-tower plan tests the capital’s appetite for vertical governance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

India's Banks Are Making Money Again. The People Sending It Aren't.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

China's AI diplomacy and a Filipino insult collide on the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

A Kashmir Image, a Saudi Cell, and Tehran's Patient Lobby for Shia Prisoners

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing tightens the valve on cross-border money, and Hong Kong lenders feel it first

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

US acknowledges wounded troops in Iranian strikes on Jordan bases

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

A Himalayan Kitchen Tries to Reframe Ladakh

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Beijing's soft-power snags surface in Manila and the southwest Chinese highlands on the same morning

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Skyroot's Vikram-1 lifts off, and India's private launch market stops being theoretical

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Eight dead in Sichuan landslide as Beijing presses US over journalist visas

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Meta's India algorithm fight is now a template for platform governance worldwide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Bihar's SIR sprint and Lalu Prasad's AIIMS move land on the same day in Delhi, exposing two different pressures on Indian democracy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia18 Jul

Lockheed Martin locks in $439 million ATACMS deal for Taiwan, deliveries running to 2031

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

US shuts Peshawar consulate, narrowing its diplomatic footprint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's former minister sounds off on India's bullet train. New Delhi pushes back.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Ratcliffe on Russia, drones, and the China question: parsing the CIA director's three sentences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion Bet Hits a Chinese Speed Bump

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Delhi gets a new top cop, mid-stride: the hurried handover at Police HQ

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Lai Châu flash flood kills at least four as northern Vietnam's wet-season toll climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

A fossil, a staged crash, and a 9% bet: three snapshots of China's contested century

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump floats a US-only World Cup, and a China co-host inside the same breath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

China holds rates steady as Trump-era frictions multiply the political risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's quiet NTM lung crisis gets a clinical push

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk hospitalised as Ladakh's climate fast enters its fourth week

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Ladakh's 21-day fast ends in hospital: Sonam Wangchuk's detention at Jantar Mantar revives a Gandhian tradition of Himalayan protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India flags its first hydrogen train, betting the rail network can lead a fuels transition diesel cannot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Bangkok's deadliest nightlife fire in years exposes a regulatory pattern Thailand keeps repeating

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Moonshot AI narrows the gap with a cheaper model, and the frontier is no longer American-only

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump's China hack claim lands without proof, and the politics of doubt

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Gujarat's lion attacks expose a conservation model running past its limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

India's first hydrogen train rolls, but the fuel itself is still on order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Trump revives the China-hack playbook, just as a declassified CIA report punctures the Venezuela one

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 Jul

Japan's imperial law gets its first rewrite in 79 years; Olympus bets the OR goes robotic

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Palestinians and the long reach of Global South solidarity

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's biggest IPO of the year pulls in $31bn in bids as institutional money floods the book

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

A Grandmother's Death, An All-India Rank 1: Inside the Motivation Driving This Year's NEET Topper

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

China holds rates for a 14th month as Beijing weighs deflation, debt and Trump tariff truce

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

A Russian heckler in Tokyo: what a single rally reveals about the friction inside Japanese civil society over Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China accusation, Beijing's rebuttal, and the visa fight already underway

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China election-meddling allegations meet a flat denial in Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Europe's anti-missile project with Ukraine reads as insurance against a wobbly American umbrella

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Landslide in Chongqing leaves eight dead and dozens missing as southwest China enters peak rainy season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

'Mini Kabul' falls silent as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa turns on its Afghan residents

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan rebalances toward the Gulf and Washington, with Tehran in the crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Manila's coastal forts: deterrence, or a target list for Beijing?

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Malaysia's Network School probe tests the country's pitch for foreign tech talent

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Federal Bank flags 1.5–2% net-worth hit as RBI rules rewrite Indian lending math

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Malaysia says it cannot block MMC Port chief, drawing a line between state and corporate control

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Washington's new charge d'affaires lands in Kyiv as Oudkirk takes the post

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

The $1.6 billion question: how American funding is shaping the China narrative in Nigeria

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's smartphone slowdown meets an AI memory crunch, and a digital health mess behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Moscow and Beijing push back on Trump's election-meddling claim, and the line of fire widens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

China's week of two signals: a fatal landslide and a denial in Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi warns against 'new historical injustices' as AI race reshapes semiconductor order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Polymarket puts China’s AI top-model shot at 9%, and the betting crowd has a point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing signals retaliation as Trump opens second front: the China vote-fraud file

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump alleges China stole 220 million US voter files; Beijing calls claim ‘fabricated and slanderous’

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

RBI flags West Asia and monsoon as India economy's twin fault lines

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Kashmiri detainee returns from Saudi Arabia after months in custody over Khomeini image

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

China draws level with the US on AI, says Axios. The contest moves from benchmark to build-out.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Maharashtra rolls back its electoral revision, Delhi opens a new monsoon front

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Eisenkot's North Korea warning lands in an Israel already sharpening the Iran file

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Hong Kong trade privilege, China election-data charge land on the same 24 hours

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

IRGC commander warns of 'aggressive phase' if US keeps striking

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China-hack claim and the press-license threat land the same week, and the patterns rhyme

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

A 3.5-tonne cannon vanishes in broad daylight: India's heritage under new pressure

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's Beijing headache: why the personal rapport with Xi no longer travels

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Japan redraws imperial succession rules and keeps the line on male-only emperors

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's primetime address puts 220 million-voter claim and China accusation at center of US election fight

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

India's insurance lapse problem and a digital-health naming mess, in one slow week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Kuwait turns east as Gulf air defenses engage Iranian and Iraqi drones

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Hong Kong's two-track summer: US trade status restored as Shein clears final IPO gate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Sri Lanka's T20 League Opens Under Corruption Cloud as Delhi Engineers a Monsoon Fix

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

India's first private orbital rocket aims for space on Saturday, and Hyderabad is counting down

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi pitches an 'AI for the Global South' line in Shanghai, with Phnom Penh and Bangkok on the dais

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Axios: China Has 'Erased' the US AI Lead. Beijing Says Mind Your Own Elections.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan and Kuwait draw red lines around Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes reshape Gulf security

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing's AI moment: what an Axios verdict on the US lead does and doesn't settle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Kuwait reaches for nuclear cover as Gulf security realigns around Pakistan

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

India tells Tehran: Chabahar is fine, and our logistics line stays open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Pakistan's defence pact with Saudi Arabia is starting to look like a liability

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing's three-message week: AI equity, Taiwan muscle memory, and a denial on US elections

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Xi Jinping tells Shanghai's AI summit the technology must be shaped by humanity's common values

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Seoul's two-track play: a wearable robot on one bench, an Arctic shipping lane on another

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump accuses Beijing of stealing 220 million US voter files; China calls the claim 'entirely fabricated'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China-voter-files charge lands in Beijing, and on prediction markets

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

India's growth narrative splits along the variable you pick

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

White House alleges Beijing blackmailed a US official as immigration, election-integrity fights escalate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's 220-million-voter-file accusation lands without a paper trail

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's primetime China accusation meets a fractured broadcast window and a Truth Social paywall

Venkataraman · americas · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

India's index reshuffle, a research budget, and the small questions of industrial design

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Tokyo's maglev decade of drift, and the yen that won't wait for it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China accusations test the limits of declassified evidence as a political instrument

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Beijing pushes back on Trump's 2020 election claim as the diplomacy of grievance returns

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

China demands US lift journalist curbs as Taiwan-replica drills reset the threat clock

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump declassifies a 2020 story: 220 million voter files, paid journalists, and a renewed China frame

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump alleges Chinese 'largest compromise of election data in history' in primetime address

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Bangladesh's reserves climb back to 2022 levels, with Malaysia's labor reopening tipped to push remittances higher

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump's China broadside lands a day before Beijing's own deadline: what to watch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 Jul

Trump accuses Beijing of historic 2020 election-data breach; networks decline to air primetime address

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Nepal's Gen Z street politics turns on Kathmandu's mayor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's startup seed money, a NEET topper from the capital, and a UP police raid: three July 16 stories that sketch Modi's India

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

UN envoy frames China as a Global South AI bridge, and the West's silence is louder than the speech

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's open-source AI catches up where the headlines already are

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Root Sets Up the Decider as India Brace for a Fifth-Test Minefield

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Four years, four states: how a 2022 arrest in Uttar Pradesh widened into an ED sweep of madrasas and hawala corridors

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi bets Rs 10 lakh per student on a start-up pipeline that still has to prove it works

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi student Aryan Gupta tops NEET-UG on his second attempt, setting his sights on AIIMS

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps into the US-Iran back channel, betting mediation muscle it built in May

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Rybar Digest: Ukraine Protesters Demand More Russian Casualties at Fedorov Dismissal Rallies

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Kimi K3 takes the front-end arena as Polymarket odds 69% Anthropic extends paid access

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India tells Moscow it has no spare gasoline: Reuters

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps in as US strikes Iran's Iranshahr airport, hours after urging a return to talks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing rehearses the blockade it hasn't yet ordered

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China tops US in global favourability, a Pew turn that reshapes the soft-power ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's air pivot: how a winter pollution plan is reshaping the city's last-mile freight economy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Israel’s Knesset stretches IDF conscription as Tokyo’s maglev limps into another delay

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's AAIB draws up cockpit transcript in Air India crash probe, court filing shows

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

China's Kimi K3 takes the coding bench, and the framing that follows it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sonu Sood and the loneliness question India stopped asking

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 Rohingya missing after two boats capsize in the Bay of Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

LIGO India: a gravitational-wave observatory, and a quiet statement about scientific self-reliance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

China edges past the United States in global favourability for the first time, Pew survey finds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Five hundred feared lost in the Bay of Bengal: another Rohingya voyage ends in mass death

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India's Supreme Court pushes back on a third-language load

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India's first hydrogen train rolls into a budget already stretched thin

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Moonshot's Kimi K3, the next test of China's open-weights playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Odisha's missing reports and the long shadow of Kandhamal

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Three stories from one Delhi afternoon: bar, exam hall, prison gate

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan's maglev delay offers a window into a slower infrastructure cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan bets a national AI factory can reset its industrial position

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India's space agency is haemorrhaging scientists. The fix may make it worse.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Batanes and the cartography of intent: reading Beijing's signal to Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

UPSC quiz flags India’s chip and phone bet as the question that won’t go away

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

First American LNG tanker in a year docks in China as Middle East war redraws the gas map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Twenty-nine states sign up for a World AI Cooperation Organization. The question is what it actually does

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Inside the WhatsApp-Forward Economy: How Two Delhi-Haryana Rackets Reveal the New Extortion Stack

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

PAS's Johor wipeout tests the party in Negeri Sembilan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's fast, and Congress's bid to own Ladakh's political weather

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

ICICI Lombard's $980 million slide hands India's insurance sector a credibility test

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Seoul pulls the lever on single-stock leveraged ETFs, freezing new listings to choke volatility

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing sends a vice-minister to Washington. The signal is smaller than it looks.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Coast Guard in the Spratlys, chatbots in Beijing: a single week in the China contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

S. Janaki, the voice that held south Indian cinema together, dies at 88

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Arvind Kejriwal taps Sonam Wangchuk as his model Education Minister, and Ladakh reads the room

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan moves to shield Chinese-operated mine as Balochistan insurgency flares

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing rewires intimacy: the AI companion crackdown, and what it says about Chinese governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

South Korea flags single-stock leveraged ETFs as 'high-risk,' drawing Saronic's $3.2bn Texas play into the same week of capital reallocation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Karnataka's temple CCTV move and Delhi's SIR friction signal India's governance pressure points

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's streaming boom meets a NATO rebrand: two different openings for New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

OnePlus pulls back from the West and India, and what the retreat says about the phone industry's next phase

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

China and Yemen frame US strikes while Beijing tightens its Cuba line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Japan's 27,500-chip Nvidia bet lands the same week Washington tightens the visa screws

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls its sailors from Hormuz, exposing the gulf between its services boom and its shipping risk

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

A thousand days of Gaza, and the awkward silence from New Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's oil-and-robotics build-out turns industrial policy into a strategic weapon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Two Indian consumer stories, one quiet verdict on the rules that bind

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Vietnam's northern highlands flood as monsoon trough stalls over Lao Cai

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms are sitting on a mountain of unsold stock, and they can't mark it back up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Apple clears China AI hurdle with Alibaba and Baidu tie-up, ceding ground on data and model architecture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Maruti consumer ruling lands as India's services trade prepares to overtake goods

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Shanghai AI pact gathers 27 states, putting Beijing at the centre of a parallel governance track

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 Rohingya feared dead in Bay of Bengal boat capsizes

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls its seafarers out of the Strait of Hormuz

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Three moves, one signal: Beijing stages hardware, diplomacy, and automation in the same news cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Trump's 25% Brazil tariff lands alongside a New York data-center pressure play

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services catch-up: NSE clears FPI derivatives as exports edge ahead of goods

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Five Hundred Missing at Sea: The Myanmar Boat Disaster the World Will Not Name

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Inpex breaks ground on a $21bn LNG plant in eastern Indonesia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Drones, donations and a police station for women: three India stories that say something larger

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia16 Jul

Skyroot's Vikram-1 launch puts India's private-sector space industry on the launchpad

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan's security crisis in Balochistan exposes the limits of its China-mediated peace pitch

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Two fronts, one message: Washington turns up the heat on Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Kuala Lumpur draws a line: Anwar says Israeli passport-holders will be deported

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Thailand's deportation test: a Chinese journalist's case redraws the region's safe-haven limits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

ASEAN bets on humanoid robotics as Seoul tightens policy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms run out of pricing power as inventory glut deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

New Delhi tells Indian sailors to avoid the Strait of Hormuz

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Pakistan steps between Washington and Tehran, asking both sides to come back to the table

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India’s lithium shift rolls into a stalled e-rickshaw lot: what the cybersecurity warning actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Three Asia stories, one pattern: capacity stretched past its breaking point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing's three-front sprint: asteroid radar, oil stockpiles, and an AI companion crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks a three-year freeze, and Seoul's chip rout does the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services boom hits the ceiling the manufacturing push was meant to break

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Iran's BRICS pitch: reframe the bloc as an anti-colonial bloc

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

New York goes nuclear to keep its AI grid from drifting to Beijing

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Dhaka's army, Delhi's nerves: the veteran general's warning from Organiser that India is taking seriously

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Three small India stories that say something bigger about consumer-state friction

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's AI moment is splitting into two markets, and the regulator just redrew the line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China stacks rare-earth, AI and tourism levers on the same day, and Western capitals have no single counter-move

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services catch-up resets the trade-deal arithmetic

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Dhaka's 108-kilometre fence: Bangladesh redraws the line on Rakhine's spillover

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Moscow’s barrels keep heading south: Russia stays India’s biggest crude supplier in mid-2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing pushes an AI diplomacy agenda while pharmaceutical supply chains deepen China's grip

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Washington turns two screws at once: drug supply and AI compute, with Beijing the common thread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Over 500 feared dead in Bay of Bengal as Rohingya boats capsize in monsoon seas

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Zero-tariff Africa, a sentencing in Shanghai, and a crackdown on AI lovers: three threads in China's July

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia16 Jul

Trump's primetime pitch lands against a quieter backdrop: Beijing's data game and Tehran's silence

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

European heatwave bends transport, power and nuclear grids, but the political heat is moving east

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

More than 500 feared dead as Rohingya boats capsize in the Bay of Bengal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's growth engine sputters: what a slowing economy means for Brussels and Kyiv

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Tehran's Strait of Hormuz warning lands as China quietly cuts crude imports to a ten-year low

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Sony chairman tells Bangkok forum that human ties still shape Asia's AI race

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services economy is about to eclipse its factory output. That changes the debate about industrial policy.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's Xinjiang target ship and a thousand humanoid apprentices: two signals the West is choosing to misread

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China pulls the crude lever as Hormuz tensions redraw the oil map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Delhi's bedrock and India's chip bets: two versions of the same long game

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services exports are about to eclipse goods, and the numbers say something the manufacturing push does not

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Ladakh's seventh hill council reignites a quiet constitutional fight over Delhi's frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Nvidia courts Tokyo as sovereign-AI buildouts redraw the chip map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Lakshadweep crosses the TB threshold, and India's services trade quietly slips past its goods

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

Xi's Pacific SLBM: signal to Washington, message to Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 Jul

India's services exports are about to eclipse goods. The growth story the headlines miss.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China posts 4.7% H1 growth and tightens the screws on AI companions in the same week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India pulls three levers at once: water, fuel, uranium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Bangkok Becomes Asia's Convenient Table: Nikkei Forum Tests Whether Industrial Policy Can Be Made to Sound Boring

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Apple lands China AI approval, hands the keys to Alibaba and Baidu

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Nissan bets a redesigned Elgrand can steady a shaky homecoming

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing's image turns a corner while its regulators turn off the charm

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India's parallel resets: taxing fuel exports, importing uranium, and debating simultaneous polls

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

Nvidia plants a flag in Toyota's living lab: what the Woven City tie-up actually signals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks a three-year freeze, and the won tells you what it actually thinks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India's $20 billion electronics bet meets a university system in revolt

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

India raises diesel and jet-fuel export levies as it funnels another $19.7bn into domestic chips and phones

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

Beijing tightens the leash on AI companions as humanoid robots head for the factory floor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia16 Jul

China's small firms can't pass on costs. That's a fiscal problem in disguise.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia16 Jul

India's foreign-policy reset lands on the desk of a new S. Jaishankar successor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Russian synchronized swimming triumph in Tokyo frames the Olympic question no Western wire wants to ask

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Robots in the warehouse, moratoriums in Albany: the two-front race for AI physical infrastructure

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Cyclosporiasis surges across more than 30 US states, with Michigan carrying the caseload

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Thinking Machines opens Inkling, betting enterprises will pay to leave the frontier labs behind

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia15 Jul

Malaysia threatens Israeli visitors with deportation as Gaza war reshapes regional diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Liuzhou's 'Forest City' asks whether green architecture can scale in a country still building coal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Russia's floating crude pile-up signals the cost of a shrinking buyer's market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Malaysia's deportation pledge places Israeli travelers at the sharp end of a wider diplomatic rupture

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump pressures New York to lift data-center moratorium as China posts 4.3% GDP print

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's SIR Backlog Meets Varanasi's Highway Push: Two Sides of India's 2026 Rollout

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Pew map shows Xi outpacing Trump in global favourability, with neighbours tilting Beijing's way

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump pulls the lever on New York's data-centre freeze, telling Albany the AI race won't wait

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Three court and municipal actions in one evening sketch a wider picture of India's judicial workload

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump urges New York to lift data-centre moratorium as China posts 4.3% Q2 growth

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Nepal jails two former ministers in Bhutanese-refugee forgery ring

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

A Chinese passport, religious texts, and an AI device: the items seized from a US national at the India-Nepal border

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Clavicular to Pyongyang? Polymarket's 2% Says No, and That's the Story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China pulls ahead of the United States in global favourability for the first time in a major cross-national survey

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Apple's China AI compromise: Alibaba's Qwen gets the keys

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second-quarter slowdown lands at 4.3%, and the global growth math changes with it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

India's $19.7 billion chip-and-smartphone bet tests Modi's industrial playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Japan's game studios have gone all-in on generative AI. The creative fallout is just beginning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

A $5 million check in 1995, a $4 trillion market cap in 2026: Huang revisits the Sega deal that kept Nvidia alive

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Ottawa joins the GCAP tent, but only as a witness

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

OnePlus pulls back from the West, but India's question is louder

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing's Pressure Campaign Now Has a Stage Name: Shen Yun

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

New York's data-center standoff meets a 4.3% China quarter, and the AI race has a new fault line

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Trump's data-centre pitch lands in New York, with Beijing circling the same power grid

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Utah mall stabbing leaves Indian Muslim worker hospitalised, suspect charged with hate crime

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing's long game in Moscow: courting the post-Putin generation

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

China's growth miss lands in a week already shaped by Washington, Tehran and a thin diplomatic calendar

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's oil imports collapse and home prices keep falling: the second-quarter picture the wire doesn't soften

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

India's two big July 15 moves: an FTA with Britain, and a quieter reset of its railway ticketing backbone

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Singapore court hits Bloomberg with $356,000 defamation ruling as India pours another $19.7bn into chips

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's housing slump finds a floor it can't stand on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Iran's Hormuz permit queue exposes the geography of the wartime oil trade

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Argentina's football team, fresh from a 2026 World Cup semi-final, sends a small cheque to flooded Chinese provinces

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Hanoi Courts Outside Capital as $1.5tn Build-Out Reshapes Southeast Asia's Risk Map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Dhaka rolls out a national QR, betting interoperability can drag the cash economy into the formal one

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Bangladesh bets a single QR code can pull a cash economy into the formal record

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

A metal cap, a sanctions fight, a typhoon: three threads pull at China's July

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

US Coast Guard fast cutters redeploy from Gulf to Singapore and Manila

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% Q2 print is fine. The composition is the problem.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi hits the gas on EVs the same week New Delhi and London open a tariff corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Warsaw backs India's UNSC bid, signalling a quieter European bet on Delhi

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Tata holds the crown, Adani joins the top ten: what India's brand league table signals about a sanctions-bill squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Old Delhi, new pressures: how a 17th-century name is being lost to the housing market

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Truth Social by way of Tehran: how a Chatham House warning about Trump's digital diplomacy is being read in Iran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Sonam Wangchuk's 18th day on hunger strike: what the Cockroach Janta Party is demanding and why the federal response is being read as an avoidance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

World Leaks claims breach of Kudankulam contractor; sensitive nuclear data allegedly published

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

The drone part Beijing didn't put on the bill: how Chinese components ended up in Ukraine's unmanned fleet

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Lindsey Graham's Long War: A Senator's Two-Decade Push From Iraq to Kyiv

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

India draw first blood in England ODI series after T20I humbling

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Russia's central bank just stopped telling you where the ruble is going

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print and the data-center chill: two readings of the same race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second-quarter slowdown lands at 4.3%, and Amazon is already reshuffling the export map around it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

India's gig economy: the flexibility promise is doing a lot of work

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Anduril's Palmer Luckey on Iran: a steep missile curve and a fraught computer-vision debate

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi puts EVs at the centre of its air pollution fight, but the grid may not be ready

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Anwar puts Malaysia on a hard line against Israel, says any Israeli found in the country will be expelled

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Kuala Lumpur draws a line: Anwar says Malaysia will not recognise Israel and will expel any Israeli it finds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Gasoline queues turn unruly as Delhi's lawyers walk out over jurisdiction fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Cyberattack on Nichirei's logistics backbone forces KFC Japan to warn of store closures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Indonesia's Indika Energy bets on gold as coal earnings slide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

A Bengal MLA's defection, and the math Mamata cannot ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Two hundred ships, one chokepoint: Iran turns Hormuz into a toll lane

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

When the bar stops work: inside Delhi's Rs 10 crore fight, a Kerala cyber-fraud warning, and a Rs 4 lakh insurance win

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China’s 4.3% print hands Beijing a slow-growth problem it cannot export away

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Zelensky's Paris entrance and the optics of a Europe still divided on Ukraine

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Beijing tells Washington: lift the Cuba blockade, now

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's robotics showcase lands in a week of rare-earth pressure points

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's electric push runs into a Chinese question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv, walks off with a Ukrainian state honour

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

A hunger strike in Leh, a petition in Delhi, and a question about state authority over the body

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Inside the courtroom pushback: how India's top court is being asked to police its own narratives

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's carriers count the cost of a Middle East war, and a wider bill is coming due

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia15 Jul

Japan's quiet dual play in Asia: a port in Java, a photo app in your pocket

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Bangladesh rolls out a single QR to drag a cash economy into the digital age

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

IBM's 25% rout and China's growth miss collide on the same trading day, exposing a fault line in the AI capex story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China posts 4.3% Q2 growth as Washington juggles fraud raids and an AI infrastructure fight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Bengal's pitch for a connectivity-driven eastern corridor, and the fiscal ceiling behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's second quarter lands at 4.3% growth, and the airlines bleed through the noise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Taiwan's TPP crosses the strait as Taiwan mangoes land in Europe: a quiet week for cross-strait economic statecraft

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print looks stable. The composition tells a different story.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Patimban's first boxes and Japan's quiet infrastructure playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Hanoi's $1.5 trillion ask, and why it lands in a year of scarce dollars

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's 4.3% print and the cost of repairing the inside of the house

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Ahmedabad files its first FIR over an illegal EWS occupation, and a quieter fight begins over who counts as the urban poor

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

India's textile belt cashes in on the EU and UK trade deals, but the supply chain is not yet out of the woods

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

New York data-center moratorium, China's million-vehicle month, and the shape of the AI-industrial race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Merz's October Tokyo trip sets up a quietly consequential Germany–Japan alignment

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia15 Jul

Ahmedabad's noise pilot and the slow grind of Indian urban governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

China's biggest chip IPO yet tests Beijing's patience for a self-reliant memory stack

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Patimban's first boxes: Japan-backed port opens as Indonesia courts supply-chain gravity

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi's crumbling classrooms: one in ten government school buildings flagged unsafe

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

South Korea's AI moment is arriving faster than its regulators

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia15 Jul

Delhi court convicts four in Tahir Hussain case; city flags unsafe school buildings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India start the post-World Cup cycle with a clinical chase, while prediction markets split on England

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Yen's slide drags Tokyo exporters into a new warning season

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China crosses 1 million vehicles in a single month as Europe answers with a space-based interceptor

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

US Treasury hits 50+ targets in Shamkhani shipping network, squeezing Iran's oil-export lifelines

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Delhi riots court ruling puts Tahir Hussain’s role back in the frame, six years on

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A double blow in Delhi: a constable’s murder-suicide and a five-minute pothole machine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Taiwan's AI server makers use AI to make AI servers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Russian strike hits Odesa Region oil depot as drone campaign grinds on

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Bar Blaze Forces Thailand's Hospitality Fire-Safety Regime Into the Open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Capitol Hill moves to criminalise foreign repression on US streets

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

The Russia tariff lever returns, with Graham's signature and a buyer's list already drawn

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia14 Jul

China’s export engine finds a second wind in AI hardware as Middle East strikes lift Brent past $85

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's car exports cleared one million a month for the first time. Now comes the political bill.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Nvidia's H200 chips are reportedly crossing to China. The timing is the story.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Magnitude 6.05 quake off Mindanao puts southern Philippines on watch

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Two menus, one kitchen: how Japan’s tourist pricing is feeding a Korean backlash

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Copper hits three-week high as Iran-US flare-up revives supply fear

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Nvidia's H200 chips land in China: a quiet escalation in the semiconductor contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court fines three creators Rs 3 lakh each for defying disability-disparagement order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Riyadh's $47.2 million drone order from Taiwan signals a new industrial customer for Taipei

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court pulls a stand-up comic back into line on disability remarks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's Edgbaston win lands the morning after an IBM rout: a week that split the cricket and the chip cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Lucknow bets on metro, expressway and a defence corridor to draw tech capital away from Bengaluru and Hyderabad

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A former US special forces soldier, a Himalayan border post, and a quiet intel puzzle

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing accuses Washington of torpedoing Iran talks mid-negotiation

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia14 Jul

When a viral post points at empire: reading a single sentence about Gaza, Vietnam and the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Graham's tariff bill puts Beijing and Delhi in the same crosshairs over Russian crude

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China tells UN the US is pushing the Middle East to a dangerous precipice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Power of Siberia-2 stalls as Beijing plays the long gas game

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's midday newsfile: ordered early galaxies, an 8% passport nation, and amaranth's superfood pitch

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Delhi draws a line on forced-labour imports, and a quiet one on the passport

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Trump Floats Charging Beijing for Hormuz Cover as China Cracks One Million Vehicles a Month

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's engineering-services exports ride a sustainability wave, while C-section rates quietly redraw maternal care

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

China clears one million vehicles in a single month, redrawing the global export map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export surge rewrites the tariff playbook

Venkataraman · asia · 8 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's two-track bet: AI chips lift the growth line, weather derivatives quietly build underneath

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's export engine runs on foreign chips and cars, raising the question Beijing would rather not answer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's top court pushes back on comedian Samay Raina over disability remarks

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Riyadh reaches for two resets at once: a drone pipeline from Taipei and a quiet exit for detained migrants

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

London court fight over China mega-embassy lands on the same week Beijing sets a new export record

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Tankers burning, tariffs threatened: the day the Strait of Hormuz became the world's tariff line

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Tokyo doubles down: $3 billion Tower fab and a central-bank firewall on the same day

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A sodium-battery breakthrough and a 24% bet: China's two-front contest with Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's one-million-vehicle month isn't a milestone. It's a re-rating.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's defence boom meets a market sell-off: how the same country became 2026's best performer and its newest bear case

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok's nightclubs, Maine's detention: two flashpoints in the long unwinding of enforcement as theatre

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bloomberg's Singapore Defeat Reshapes the Map for Financial Journalism in Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

The template is older than the target: Western media's Russia playbook, now aimed at China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok's nightclubs face a regulatory reckoning after the earthquake aftermath

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

DeepSeek weighs a second funding round as Beijing draws a line on bank discount rates

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Mayon hits 190 days of eruption as Albay settles in for the long haul

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing courts Russia's next generation while Brussels shrugs at a Belgian designer with a Kremlin passport

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Bar Fire Reopens a Global Scandal: Cheap Foam, Blocked Exits, Repeat Tragedies

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Xinjiang to Beijing: the fall of Ma Xingrui and what the third Politburo purge in four years tells us about Xi's China

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Liaoning's floating lighthouse goes adrift as Typhoon Bavi delivers mainland China's most powerful storm of 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

South Korea's AI-fueled boom faces a leveraged reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India leans on its diaspora to defend the rupee, while AI bets and a Lord's milestone recalibrate the country's confidence

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export jump and a Pacific reassurance, in the same 24 hours

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

The road up the Hunza is a road into Pakistan's hardest question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Malaysia opens probe into tech commune run by ex-Coinbase executive

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's satellite-linked drones and a quiet bill-discount floor: two signals from a single day

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Yunnan's summer pitch leans on altitude, not air-conditioning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's two-front sprint: women's Test breakthrough and an AI-services pivot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing pressures Europe on two fronts: maritime law and the price of money

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing holds the floor on bill rates. ASML prepares to defend its order book.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's wholesale inflation jumps to 9.87% even as US price pressures cool

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

In Kuancheng, firefighters became the difference between a car door and a coffin

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

BMW's Neue Klasse arrives in a China that has already lapped it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Xi's governance manual lands in Bishkek, signalling the SCO's ideological choreography

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

AstraZeneca turns to a Chinese biotech for a lung-cancer drug, and the deal tells you where the pipeline is heading

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Third Politburo scalp in a year: Ma Xingrui expelled as Xi's corruption net tightens around the rocket command

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok Pub Fire Kills 30 as Investigators Focus on Blocked Exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan moves to codify central bank independence as political pressure on the BOJ builds

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

India's IT services giant says AI is now its fastest-growing line

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Tehran moves to legislate Hormuz security as Indian diplomat is summoned over a citizen's death

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Wangchuk's fast puts Modi's Ladakh policy in the dock

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

A fifth volume of Xi Jinping's governance writings goes on tour in Bishkek

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok bar fire toll climbs to 30 as investigators chase cause through a missing wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul's chip-led upgrade: South Korea lifts 2026 growth to a five-year high as BOK prepares a rare rate move

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul sells off, Beijing ships out: Asia's split-screen signal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Trilateral Talks Stall as Beijing Watches the USMCA Cracks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bangkok bar fire toll climbs to 30 as police focus on blocked exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Solar panels as rangeland: a desert plateau rethinks the energy–land trade-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Fairfax, Emirates NBD circle back: revised bids land for India's IDBI Bank stake sale

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

ASML heads into a quarterly update with China overhang and capacity questions unresolved

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing detains US seismologist who tracked North Korea's nuclear tests

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Typhoon Bavi drives 260,000 from homes in China's Liaoning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Seoul tilts the credit spigot for chip giants as BOK pivots hawkish

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Wolfsburg's reckoning: VW's 100,000-job cut plan lands in an auto industry already rewired by China

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Western tourists eye China's cool country: how Harbin, Qingdao and the southwest bet on a heat-dodge summer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

China's June export surge puts the AI-chip trade at the centre of a domestic-demand bind

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Volkswagen's reckoning and the European car industry's China-shaped problem

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Singapore's PixVerse closes $439M round, vaulting past a $2B valuation in a video-AI market that no longer waits for Silicon Valley

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

China's humanoid robotics race goes public: Shenzhen's LimX Dynamics files for IPO as capital window narrows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Nintendo weighs OLED upgrade for Switch 2, but panel costs keep the project on hold

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Shell exits Indian renewables as Aditya Birla absorbs a 2.4 GW platform

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Strikes on Mykolaiv ports haven't dislodged shipping. The fix isn't a bomb, it's paperwork

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

A Chinese passport at the Nepal border and a claimed US Navy past: what the Indian Express report actually tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Yuan settlement crosses 25 trillion yuan in H1 2026 as Beijing's trade architecture deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

India's Deportation Drive Pins Bangladesh Against a Closed Border

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Chinese detention of US seismologist studying North Korean tests puts scientific diplomacy in play

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Qatar’s Father Emir passes: a Gulf patriarch who reshaped Doha’s place in the world

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Yen's slide reorders the carry trade as Tokyo walks a narrow line

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

A record El Niño takes shape, and the emergency food system is not ready

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China forecasts a super El Niño that could outpace 1997-98

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Xi's governance anthology goes to Bishkek as SCO courts Central Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's H1 trade prints strong on paper, but the volume story is running ahead of the value story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Hainan Puts a Date on China's Most Aggressive EV Deadline Yet

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

European heatwave reshapes China's cooling exports: a structural shift, not a one-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan's quiet espionage alarm, and the question of who runs the room

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Jakarta jails the founder of Gojek, and Southeast Asia's tech sector recalibrates

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Bank of Korea breaks three-year freeze as won's fragility and US tariff overhang force a turn

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Malaysia's graphene battery bet rolls off a small line, but the hard part is still ahead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Indian firms reach for Chinese models as the AI bill comes due

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Suntory PepsiCo bets Vietnam is the next bottled-water frontier

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Japan's remittance record hides a slower, more uncomfortable story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia14 Jul

Anwar's coalition takes a Johor-shaped hit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

Beijing doubles down on orbit and the ground: Chang'e-7 reaches the pad as a new state minerals vehicle goes live

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia14 Jul

China's property survivors hit a fresh wall of cash

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia14 Jul

Two fronts, one supply chain: helium and the South China Sea redraw Asia's risk map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

The double standard Washington cannot keep calling a principle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A $177 million CNS deal signals where China's biotech-pipeline diplomacy is heading

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Oil jumps 4% and gold slides as US and Iran trade strikes, with Seoul's Kospi shedding close to 10%

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's voter roll overhaul adds a parental-status field, raising citizenship questions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A Bollywood star's Mumbai office flip says more about Indian real estate than it does about celebrity portfolios

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China's graduate glut meets the AI hiring wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Fifteen Indian Tourists Dead in Vietnam Speedboat Capsize: Captain Detained as Survivors Cite Safety Lapses

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Anthropic's rupee pivot: why India just became Claude's second-largest market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

After the Delhi riots verdict: what a single Intelligence Bureau family tells us about a wider wound

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Britain's grooming-gang deportation test, and what it asks of Pakistan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

The West's $23.6 trillion bill for de-risking from China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27, exposing Thailand's crowded nightlife-safety ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok Beer Hall Fire Kills 27 as ASEAN Softens on Myanmar

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China fires up a state-backed minerals vehicle as the energy transition forks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Yoon sentenced: a two-year jail term and a longer question about South Korea's political money

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Antelope Reef: the unfinished island Beijing still has to explain

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Myanmar's quiet return: Asean's engagement gambit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Europe's energy system hits its limits: a wind-light June, French reactor wobbles, and a Hormuz shock the grid was not built for

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Xi Jinping to make first appearance at Shanghai's World AI Conference as Beijing reframes the technology race

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Taiwan turns to private contractors for wartime logistics, and the assumptions behind that shift

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

FBI–Pakistan counter-terror talks at Quantico put Islamabad's Western alignment back on the table

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A Chinese academic's claim to Batanes, and why it landed in Manila like a flare

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Western rare-earth decoupling from China could cost $23.6 trillion, says new report

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's State-Backed Mineral Buyer Meets a US Power-Build Binge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing rewires the industrial stack: AI safety rules, mandatory car connectivity, and a mineral-procurement vehicle land on the same weekend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China's industrial state pushes deeper into space, minerals and power markets in one trading week

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

When the corruption hunter becomes the headline: Indonesia's KPK faces its own graft scandal

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Nine dead in Bay of Bengal trawler sinking as Delhi presses two new climate and welfare tracks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Gold plating, free parking and a Lord's headi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Mylan moves up to $363 million of Biocon, putting the India–US generics trade on screen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China's anti-Starlink push moves from theory to engineering

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Ram Temple trust opens search for first CEO as Ayodhya's institutional build-out enters a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Taiwan's defense ministry pulls the plug on legacy upgrades, bets on next-gen strike

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi court convicts former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in 2020 IB staffer murder case

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's trade-pause denial: what Goyal's pushback actually tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Tendulkar's applause, and the quieter history India women are writing at Lord's

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's ₹1,000 monthly transfer to women lands in a familiar Indian election-cycle fight

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's parking problem isn't space. It's price.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Trump pushes Clarity Act as China frames a contest over who runs the rails of digital finance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Two crises on the same peninsula, and a market that priced them differently

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Trump pushes Senate to clear crypto bill, frames it as a China check

Venkataraman · americas · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing's playbook has hardened

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Retail leverage and an AI wobble puncture South Korea's record run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

India's inflation breach and US trade track collide in a week the rupee has to absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's wellness gold rush meets a regulatory wall, and its trade negotiators talk past the noise

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's women take Lord's, and a fitness warning finds an unlikely echo at the desk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's Two-Front Industrial Squeeze: Property Liquidity and a State Mineral Buyer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

India wrap up historic Lord's Test as England fold for 186 before lunch

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Pakistan's army chief lands in Türkiye as defence ties enter a new phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Two Hemispheres, One Week of Failure: Ecuador's Masked Killers and Bangladesh's 51 Dead

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's nuclear jigsaw: the SHANTI Bill, SMRs and Australian uranium converge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing tells Washington: keep the Strait of Hormuz open, or explain why you can't

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

China demands open Hormuz as US Navy escorts tankers and Oman pushes a two-lane split

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

A stolen donation box, a bruised squad, and the political economy of spectacle in India

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Two fires, two systems: a Bangkok nightclub blaze and an Indian custodial death expose the fault lines of South and Southeast Asian governance

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

India's rare-earth reserves miss the point of the 2025 crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

US missile stockpiles strained as another round of Iran strikes reopens readiness debate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Iraq opens land borders for Arbaeen as millions prepare to walk to Karbala

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

China stacks two levers at once: a state-backed minerals fund and a softer pitch to sweltering cities

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

India's top court clears a backlog lane, and asks whether it can clear the rest

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's third-party fire audit rules sit on paper while the auditor list stays empty

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Russia and China drill together in the Yellow Sea as naval-drone warfare moves up the agenda

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27 in one of Thailand's deadliest venue blazes in years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Rochdale, Westminster, Islamabad: how a visa lever could end three decades of impunity

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi University admissions cross 2.73 lakh as Commerce and Humanities eclipse Sciences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Five Indian stories the wire buried: from a Navy frigate’s last voyage to exam-paper leaks and an AI judge

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27, exposing gaps in Thailand's nightlife safety regime

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's environment ranking is dire, but its generic-medicine playbook still travels

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Beijing Builds a Mineral Pipeline, Washington Quietly Outflanks It on Coal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Tokyo names the problem: Russia has turned Japan into a 'den of spies'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Tehran calls U.S. negotiation claim a 'psychological game' as Islamabad MoU enters crisis phase

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan moves to rebuild a wartime-era intelligence architecture, eight decades on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok nightclub fire kills at least 27 as blocked exits turn smoke into the main killer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Iran's foreign minister frames a posture of "war and diplomacy" as the art of choosing the right tool

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

The Indian waistline and the war outside: two pressures on a fast-changing consumer market

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok blaze kills 27 as social videos capture a city scrambling for exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Two Delhi Incidents, One Pattern of Civic Neglect in India's Capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's capital firepower meets a US power-investment lead

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74, ending an era that built modern Qatar

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi drownings and a stalled Maharashtra exam expose India's summer governance gaps

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's mounted troops ride into retirement as the People's Liberation Army leans on unmanned systems

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

A $450 blade of grass: how FIFA is monetising the World Cup pitch for an audience priced out of the stadium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Insilico lands a $177 million CNS deal in China as AI drug discovery matures into a licensing market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Iran war claims US stockpile is bleeding: what Tehran wants you to read into it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's quiet fiscal pivot: Centre nearly doubles a 50-year interest-free loan, and the political math behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's industrial state pivots from consumer gadgets to minerals and power

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia13 Jul

Thailand's oldest bank bets its future on customers it has never met

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

An American nuclear upstart floats an India listing. The hard part is what comes after.

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's Lodhi Garden and the question of where Indian cities end and wild India begins

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

India's Supreme Court moves to write the rules for AI in the courtroom, while Beijing's military-industrial complex logs three fresh milestones

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China’s energy pivot, a parachute stunt, and a cobra escape: three snapshots of a fast-moving summer

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Delhi's Indo-Pacific rhetoric runs ahead of its real-world deployments

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

China's 'digital kids' turn consumer 3D printing into a mass-market habit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Thailand's oldest bank bets on a virtual counter

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 near Chatuchak as investigators probe cause

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan's pet economy is bigger than its nursery industry, and the country is finally admitting it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Johor landslide exposes the fault line running through Anwar's coalition

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

Tokyo's Heat Is Quietly Redrawing the Japanese Workday

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

ASEAN's Myanmar olive branch, and the ceiling it draws

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia13 Jul

US fossil-fuel power investment overtakes China's for first time in decades

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia13 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 as Thailand's nightlife safety regime faces fresh test

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia13 Jul

Japan's universities, and the Toyota crossholdings unwind

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27 as monsoon break settles over South Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

At least 27 killed in Bangkok pub fire, one of the city's deadliest nightlife disasters in years

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: 1.5 million evacuated as China activates top-level emergency

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok club fire kills at least 27, exposing Thailand's enforcement gap on nightlife venues

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills 27, exposing the regulatory gaps behind Thailand's nightlife boom

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills at least 27 as investigators probe safety and permitting at packed nightlife venue

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Yen slides as Tokyo signals patience on rate normalisation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Unconfirmed reports of Pakistani military involvement in Iran strike expose the limits of Telegram-sourced geopolitics

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

China's 'digital kids' are buying 3D printers. The supply side is racing to keep up.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills 27 as Thailand's oldest bank bets on virtual branches

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 in one of Thailand's deadliest nightclub disasters

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok nightclub fire kills at least 27 in Chatuchak district

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangladesh monsoon toll climbs past 50 as Bay of Bengal depression deepens the flood crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Yastika Bhatia's Lord's century can't duck the tariff question: India caught between cricket and Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok bar fire kills at least 27 as Thai authorities open probe into cause

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Twenty-Nine Dead in Bangkok Chatuchak Restaurant Fire

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham's 500% tariff threat lands on India's ‘blood money’ framing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Day 1,600: Graham's Death Reshapes Washington's Ukraine Lobby, Drone Strike Punctures Syzran Refinery

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangkok fire kills dozens in Chatuchak restaurant

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's EV fleet is turning over faster than its smartphones

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Ukrainian delegation lands in Taiwan as Taipei courts donors facing their own isolation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran tops the field at China-hosted math olympiad, the fourth edition of a competition Tehran has now won three times

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fifteen Indian tourists dead off Phu Quoc: what the speedboat capsizing reveals about Vietnam's coastal safety regime

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's digital-native kids turn consumer 3D printing into a mass-market habit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A dog, a mountain, and a quiet question about Britain’s drug litter

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two Indian departures in 48 hours: a singer’s farewell and a boat of unanswered questions

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 Diverts to Karachi After Mid-Air Incident on Osaka–Dubai Run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74, and the Gulf reconsiders the man who built the gas superpower

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Putin's shadow network repopulates Tokyo: how expelled Russian spies traded European expulsions for a permissive Japan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Eight adjournments, no prosecutor: the 2020 Vadodara custodial death that Gujarat's state never brought to trial

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two arrests, two jurisdictions: Delhi extortion plot and Vietnamese boat tragedy land on the same afternoon

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Cobras on the loose: flooded farms vent snakes into southern China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan courts Iran on women’s empowerment as legal diplomacy opens a quieter channel

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Myanmar's junta envoy tells ASEAN Suu Kyi is 'being looked after', as Asean weighs its leverage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's J-16 'beast mode' patrols and a quieter shift in the energy investment ledger

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan urges restraint as Sana'a signals solidarity with Tehran

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Islamabad's diplomatic language: what Pakistan's MFA signal on regional peace actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Monsoon Flash Floods Push a Million Bangladeshis From Their Homes as Death Toll Climbs Past 40

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A 92-year-old veteran’s ‘fourth battle’: India’s veterans, the state, and the question of who counts as a casualty

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

GRU front companies routed missile and drone parts through Japan for years, NYT reports

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Ayodhya's Ram Mandir trust under fresh scrutiny over temple wealth and governance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's 'digital kids' redraw the map for the consumer 3D printer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

South Sudan activates first drought anticipatory plan in Eastern Equatoria

Venkataraman · africa · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

India’s foreign student boom: 47% growth in a decade, with Nepal still doing the heavy lifting

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India's squad maths: Rana's hamstring opens a Yadav-sized window for the England ODIs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A five-year-old's anthem, and a region under water: Guangxi's flood season in frame

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Prigozhin's Heirs and the CAR Cocaine Pipeline

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Myanmar's junta tells ASEAN Suu Kyi is 'looked after', and the bloc's answer is a quiet shrug

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Operation Shaban: Balochistan's week-long offensive crosses 100 militant deaths as Islamabad widens the dragnet

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Leehom Wang's 39 stitches put China's live-event safety regime under fresh scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India's white-ball plans wobble as BCCI pulls Rana and Chakaravarthy ahead of England, Zimbabwe tours

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India’s two front lines: shipyard launches meet a cricket selection fight

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Bangladesh floods kill 44 and strand more than a million as South Asia monsoon stress deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing reframes minorities and the sea in one news cycle

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence relocated procurement networks to Japan after 2022, NYT and Japan Times reporting finds

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

South Korea's heatwave meets its beauty boom, and the medical system feels the squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two engines, one pattern: Chinese capital lands in Africa while Beijing rewrites the rules of digital inheritance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Chandigarh tops India's household-spending table, trailing only Bengaluru

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan's mediator brand is taking a beating, and Israel knows it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Eleven Indians, one missing: a commercial vessel comes under fire off Oman

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence redirects toward Tokyo: what Japan's tech perimeter is being asked to absorb

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Inside the Mashhad press room: how a heatwave of grief became a reporting beat

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan's mediator role faces fresh scrutiny as Graham killing stokes Middle East recriminations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Zelensky's Cabinet Reset Puts Sviridenko in Charge of a New Diplomatic Lane

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Kyiv reshuffles cabinet, Beijing counsels Moscow

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Kisii to a guarded compound: how a Thai job ad became a Myanmar trafficking trap

Venkataraman · africa · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

CBI reviews AIIMS forensic report in Twisha Sharma death as questions outpace answers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Southeast Bangladesh under water: 44 dead and one million displaced as monsoon floods return

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Tehran and Islamabad pick up the phone as the regional order fractures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Brussels drafts a 'solidarity instrument' to wean EU supply chains off China

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Hydrogen on rails: what India's first hydrogen train rollout really signals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Green fireballs, six-pointed stars and a South China Sea triangle: the UFO lore that keeps creeping into geopolitics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham death hoax floods Telegram as unverified claims of US senator's demise spread

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Jasmine Sandlas announces engagement at Delhi tour opener, fans catch the moment mid-set

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Iraq courts US capital in oil and gas as Baghdad rebuilds its commercial map

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China's zoos turn up the dial on summer heat relief as mercury climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Pathan's bench argument: why two unproven names keep coming up before India's T20 reset

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Moscow's Tokyo resurrection: how Japan became a fallback station for Russian intelligence after the European expulsions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi's China landfall forces two million from homes, exposes disaster-response tradeoffs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India's hydrogen train, an Oppie recruit's homecoming, and the other stories New Delhi is telling itself this week

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia12 Jul

Two PLA Navy pilot deaths, no announcement: what the silence tells us

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Dar-Araghchi call puts Pakistan back into the Iran conversation

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Two PLA Navy pilots killed in flight training, SCMP reports, as China's anti-satellite microwave weapon enters the wire

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Vietnam boat capsize kills Indian tourists: what repatriation reveals about outbound-travel safety gaps

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A Punjabi singer's Delhi stage becomes a soft-power moment for the diaspora

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Haka, Kalaripayattu, and the soft-power contest India is not having

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

China's summer grain haul lands, and its rocket recovery programme quietly logs another first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing's quiet nuclear line to Moscow: stable enough to slow the war, risky enough to break it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi makes two landfalls on China's east coast

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Lindsey Graham, Iran, and the Senate arithmetic that won't add up

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran strikes widen across the Gulf as Tehran says Hormuz will close

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Brussels quietly lines up a Chinese-supplier exit fund, and Beijing is already pushing back

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

China's microwave counter-Starlink play: capability, denial, and the shape of the next orbital contest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Iran's mathletes bring home six medals, and a message from the vice president

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi's remnants set to drench Primorye on 14–15 July

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

A senator's death, a reporter's eulogy, and the new shape of the Gaza argument

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A rice pile meant for ethanol goes missing in Madhya Pradesh, and the audit trail gets thin

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing leans on ASEAN dialogue to dilute the legacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Russian intelligence relocates to Tokyo's blind spots

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Conviction, then a campaign of threats: a Muslim judge in India becomes the latest target of online mob justice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan and Iran reach for the phone as regional temperature climbs

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Canberra's $250m F/A-18 top-up reads as a quiet signal to Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Indian crew rescued off Oman as GFS Galaxy attack reopens Gulf of Aden shipping question

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Why badminton's next audience is being recruited in Delhi, not in front of a television

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan reaches for Tehran as the Gulf ceasefire arithmetic tilts

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Nine dead in Pune as a wall of garbage gives way

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments line up behind Manila as Beijing's South China Sea line hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Two million evacuated as Typhoon Bavi pushes into eastern China

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Eleven Indian Crew, One Missing: The GFS Galaxy Strike Off Oman

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Pakistan steps into the middle of US-Iran talks, urging restraint on both sides

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses eastern China with two million evacuated, transport still snarled

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

Tehran and Islamabad reach for the phone as regional pressure mounts

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments line up behind the 2016 South China Sea ruling, and Beijing barely flinches

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses the Chinese coast as the Philippines counts its dead

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India's Test series loss to England exposes a captain under pressure, and a newsroom reckoning back home

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan Inc unwinds: Toyota's share sell-off, a university investment reset, and Hayabusa2's planetary defence bid

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Indian tourists killed in Vietnam speedboat capsize expose safety gaps in Halong Bay day-trip market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Fourteen governments call on Beijing to abide by the 2016 South China Sea ruling, again

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India puts its longest air-to-air missile on the export list, and Jakarta is first in line

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia12 Jul

Putin's Tokyo Front: How a Russian Military Unit Reshaped Allied Sanctions Enforcement

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Delhi's Gymkhana Club faces eviction in a fight over colonial residue and real estate

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Capsize off Phu Quoc kills at least 15 Indian tourists, exposing Vietnam's crowded boat-tourism squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Hasina's December return promise puts Delhi and Dhaka back on a knife-edge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Napier grass and the long arithmetic of Marathwada's water

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Drones hit Syzran refinery as Ukraine's long-range campaign grinds toward Russian fuel supply

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi crosses into Zhejiang as Philippines toll climbs to 18

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan's universities get a stock-market lifeline, and Toyota keeps cashing out crossholdings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Steam clears $11 billion in six months, and the platform's grip on PC distribution tightens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket, and shifts the calculus for the rest of the world's launch sector

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: a coastal province in a hardened season

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Xi's Pyongyang pledge: what "unwavering commitment" actually signals in 2026

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

US strike on Turkmenistan-border bridge marks deepest Iranian incursion of the war

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

An 18-month-old's death in a Kerala hospital, and the anaesthesia gap rural India has stopped being able to ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits southern Japan with 90 mph winds as Taiwan grounds 1,100-plus flights

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India opens its UN Security Council campaign, with a longer geopolitical bet behind it

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket, India investigates maternal deaths: two very different tests of state capacity

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

A seminar map, a diplomatic protest, and the cartography of an India-Bangladesh stand-off

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India's E20 push lands in court: what the ethanol-blending fight is actually about

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

Typhoon Bavi lands in Zhejiang as China's ninth storm of 2026 tests coastal defences

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

The translators in the room: how a quiet literary channel shapes what Americans read about China

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

China's Nuclear Warning to Moscow Reshapes the Wartime Geometry

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

‘I don’t know how we survived’: What Tamil Nadu’s Vietnam boat disaster tells us about the people-smuggling corridor

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia12 Jul

A Pakistani film and a Punjab flood of memory: how 'Satluj' reopened the 1971 wound

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

India asks Washington to revisit US forced-labour finding as it pushes back on Xinjiang-linked supply-chain scrutiny

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

IShowSpeed's India World Cup pitch lands on Polymarket, with cricket's gatekeepers yet to weigh in

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

An Indian judge's name becomes a target: inside the online abuse after the Akola lynching conviction

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

India and New Zealand upgrade ties to strategic partnership as Vietnam tourist boat capsize kills 15 Indians

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Beijing's South China Sea Turn Comes for Manila and Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia12 Jul

Musk's Earth-plus valuation pitch lands as China's reusable booster catches up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Nexchip's Hong Kong debut is a bet that mature-process chips have a future in an AI-obsessed market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Seoul's Beauty Boom Is Luring Doctors Out of Public Hospitals

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 Jul

Marubeni sharpens its India bet as chip and data-centre buildouts reshape machine-tool demand

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Hokkaido's scallops face a hotter ocean and a smaller market

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia12 Jul

Japan's universities are getting a portfolio. Toyota's crossholdings are getting smaller.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's Satluj affair turns a Punjabi singer into a counter-terror file

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Yen slides toward multi-year lows as dollar carry, rate gap and trade frictions collide

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Netanyahu pitches India pivot as Israeli trust polls hit a wall

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Ukraine's rowers tighten grip on World Cup season with Montreal gold

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

A MintPress thread reopens the long ledger of US hospital bombings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's microwave play: a reported counter-Starlink weapon, and the arms-race logic underneath it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Persian Gulf oil output has reportedly recovered; analysts still see a 7-million-barrel gap

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang: 1.7 million evacuated as China's disaster machinery runs on autopilot

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing and Moscow surface submarine drills, signalling what comes next above the waterline

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Reading the American war in Vietnam through a 2026 lens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Fujian's anti-torpedo system puts a new defensive layer under China's carrier ambitions

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Sea of Azov under new strain as Kyiv widens its maritime campaign

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Neeru Dhanda's trap gold lands a quiet first for Indian shooting

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's T20 slide deepens as England hand out a 56-run lesson at a half-empty Old Trafford

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Strait of Hormuz attack: what two commercial ships being struck tells us about the Iran-file "Ramadan War" weekly

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Kranti Gaud's maiden five-for tilts the Lord's Test India's way on day two

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India’s T20I reckoning: how a 4-0 sweep in England cost the No. 1 ranking

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi Pushes 1.7 Million From Their Homes as It Crosses Zhejiang

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Khamenei heir vows retaliation; West Bank detains a US lawmaker; Vietnam boat capsizes

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran tops International Mathematical Olympiad as Tehran points to soft-power dividend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Long March-10B lights up Weibo, and the question is no longer whether Beijing can build a Super Heavy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

A Chinese scientist's death in the US, and the export-control machine around him

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's microwave weapon claim and the new shape of orbital deterrence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

England whitewash India 4-0 in T20Is as shooting trap hands Neeru Dhanda a first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi Lashes Southern Japan and Taiwan, Grounding Flights and Triggering Mass Evacuations

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Gaokao meets GPT: how Chinese parents are outsourcing the degree pick

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

S Janaki, the voice that held South Indian cinema together, dies in Mysuru at 88

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's Microwave Play: How a Chinese Directed-Energy Disclosure Reopened the Space-Electronic Warfare Question in Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Zhejiang takes a second typhoon in seven days, with Wenzhou again on the path

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's ladies' special expansion lands against a Bengaluru loan-shock death: women's safety policy meets India's informal-credit reality

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Toyota's crossholdings unwind accelerates, redrawing Japan's corporate map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's laser play against Starlink enters the open literature

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Trump checks in at Walter Reed, and Tehran's state outlets rush to frame the visit

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing fires a missile from its own waters. The signal is bigger than the warhead.

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing tells Moscow: no nukes in Ukraine

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Israel's construction sector hits a wall: labor shortages, project delays, and a war-shaped workforce

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Israel's Rafael courts Indian partners as Iron Dome co-production talks surface

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Xi reaffirms a friendship that has outlived its usefulness: reading the 2026 China–North Korea signal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing's quiet line to Moscow: the China card in Ukraine's nuclear calculus

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Bengaluru suicide puts predatory digital lending back under the scanner

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's T20 rethink in Southampton exposes a selection logic gap, not just a teenage casualty

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A $30 crore claim, a capsize off Hạ Long Bay: India confronts two tests of state and capital

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A World Cup quarter-final forecast to break two countries' heat records

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi rakes East China coast after killing 17 in the Philippines

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's internal migration is rewriting its labour map, and its politics

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Taipei courts a Ukrainian delegation as aid-dependent regimes look for new friends

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Why Tokyo's billions haven't tamed the yen

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Centre's review panel backs lifting the streaming block on Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Japan puts a reusable rocket on the pad, and the launch market gets crowded

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Ol Kalou and the arithmetic of Kenya's swing constituencies

Venkataraman · africa · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Chinese warfare tech puts Washington on the back foot

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's leadership-security gap, flagged from inside the system

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India flags hydrogen train, weighs T20I reshuffle: two sides of a transition

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Thirty-two names, one boat: the Indian victims of the Phu Quoc capsize

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Jodhpur’s new terminal opens to commercial traffic as Air India and IndiGo queue the first departures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi property deals and the quiet new economy of Indian mobility

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill logs fewer complaints as India’s first hydrogen train prepares to roll

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia pick up the phone as Gulf diplomacy crowds out Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Chengdu opens its lithium showcase to 14-nation youth camp, a soft-power pivot to critical minerals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

NatWest and IIT Delhi open a fintech corridor, and the global-South is paying attention

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Bangladesh floods kill 44 and strand more than a million, exposing the limits of a climate-vulnerable delta

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

A million evacuated: Typhoon Co-May tests East Asia's disaster coordination

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Tell Washington and Tehran: Don't Drift Back to War

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's math team tops IMSO 2026, deepening a quiet record of regional academic wins

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Fifteen dead in Vietnam speedboat capsize as southern coast logs another rough-sea weekend

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Baloch suicide attack kills 30 at Pakistani military joint base

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands its first orbital-class reusable booster, narrowing SpaceX's head start

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi High Court's Telegram ruling rewires who speaks for free speech online in India

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

West Bengal refuses to call the killing a lynching. The political cost is harder to dodge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Putin and Xi use North Korea's centenary to redraw the geometry of the tripwire

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Speedboat Capsize Near Phu Quoc Leaves 15 Dead in Vietnam Tourist-Tragedy Pattern

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Andhra workers named among Vietnam boat dead as questions travel back to Indian recruiters

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Maharashtra's CM rumour mill: Fadnavis-to-Delhi chatter and the Bawankule question

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Fifteen Dead in Tourist Boat Capsize Off Vietnam's Coast

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China tells big refiners to hold output as Iran war drags on

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's Long March-10B sticks the landing at sea, and the launch industry just took notes

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi High Court Turns Telegram Ruling Into a Signal for India's Digital Future

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India’s Satluj dispute, the Bishnoi indictment, and a cricket collapse: the week The Print’s Shekhar Gupta wouldn’t let go

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Bavi's march: how a 1,000-kilometre storm is exposing East Asia's climate-exposure gap

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

The framing war over a single quote: how a Tehran bulletin became a Rorschach for US-China decline

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Speedboat Capsize off Vietnam's Coast Kills 15 Indian Tourists as Consular Response Ramps Up

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's quiet ecosystem workforce: a Scroll.in feature lands at a moment of climate-finance reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi landslides kill 15 in Philippines as East Asia braces for a 1,000 km-wide storm

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Post offices become the new clinic: India tests whether rural eye care can travel by parcel

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

India hand Shreyas Iyer the captaincy for a dead rubber, and ask what England are really playing for

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China's Helium Export Freeze Tests the Long Reach of Middle Eastern Risk

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia hold foreign-minister call on regional situation as diplomatic tempo picks up

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Nolan in Mumbai and the Indian Screen Economy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang doubles down on nuclear build-out as Xi reaffirms the friendship treaty that underwrites it

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's nuclear red line in Ukraine: what Beijing has actually said, and what it has not

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan lifts fuel prices by more than PKR 13 a litre as the West Asia bill comes due

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

New FCRA rules and the slow squeeze on India's civic space

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands a reusable rocket at sea, ending a monopoly SpaceX has held for a decade

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bowie Pummels Taiwan as Pyongyang Reaches for Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Six dead in Telangana after man accused of stalking a minor goes on the run

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang and Beijing re-set the camera: a choreographed anniversary keeps the alliance in frame

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's three quiet July fights: tumour tests, civil-society rules, and a film pulled from a streaming shelf

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan's fuel pump shock lands mid-summer as West Asia crisis feeds back into South Asia's cost of living

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Super Typhoon Bavi Lashes East Asia as China Mass-Evacuates 900,000

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Birmingham finale: India and England close a five-match T20 series with broadcast rights, streaming and squad rotations in play

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Snakes on the floodplain: a Chinese snake-farm escape lands in a year of weather extremes

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan's petrol pivot: how a West Asia shock is refuelling inflation at home

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang and Beijing swap pledges of permanence, and the signal is the shipment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj pulled from ZEE5 international catalogue days after India takedown

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Volkswagen's 8.6% Q2 slide puts the German industrial model in China's crosshairs

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Strikes on the Aqteke Khan bridge: what the Iran-Turkmenistan-China rail link actually does

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi monsoon toll climbs to eight as the city drowns in slow motion

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pakistan courts Tehran as Iran-US strikes test a fragile calm

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

An oil blockade without ships: how the threat of secondary tariffs is rewriting Indo-Pacific trade

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang flips the script: disarmament begins with Washington's allies

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran's farewell, Tehran's message: what the state funeral tells us about Iran's domestic priorities

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China lands a rocket at sea and quietly resets the cost curve of orbit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China's marine-technology push redraws the map beneath the surface

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Iran's foreign minister lands in Muscat as Hormuz tensions draw Oman deeper into Gulf diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Patriot meets Mitsubishi: Zelenskyy pitches air-defence co-production in Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran warns Washington as UAE export-control shift rewires Gulf alignment

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Typhoon Bavi Slams Ishigaki as Japan Braces for a Long Pacific Storm Season

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Loopholes in US chip and AI rules let OpenAI and Google keep selling to Singapore and China, Russian-aligned channels claim

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

China declares emergency after cobra escape floods a southern province

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

An IDFC First Bank accused paid for a Haryana official's Dubai and Bangkok trips, and a hotel stay

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi's quota machine churns on: 8,000-plus EWS, DG and CWSN seats filled as a parallel birth-racket probe widens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tehran pushes back on UAE role as Beijing presses for restraint in US-Iran ceasefire

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Stubb bets Beijing will keep Moscow from the nuclear button

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's textbook watchdog under fire after no-show at parliamentary panel

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia11 Jul

900 cobras on the loose: a Chinese county's emergency and the limits of agricultural biosecurity

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

21 lashes for a TikTok kiss: inside Aceh's sharia courtroom

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia11 Jul

Gold in Indian Cities: Why a Domestic Price Story Is Now a Geopolitical Reading

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Monsoon fury: landslides close Himalayan roads as north India braces for another wet week

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang reads the Hague summit as a build-up — and signals it will answer

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang frames NATO buildup as arms-race provocation, joining a wider Global-South pushback

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Kim's Compound Remodels and the Optics of North Korea's 'Economic Revival'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India's E20 gamble turns into a customer-service problem for automakers

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China nets a falling rocket at sea, and the orbital-reuse race gets real

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Pyongyang's NATO broadside and Xi's pledge land on the same day — and the timing is the story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Kunshan's Robot Boom Leaves a Generation of Migrant Workers With Nowhere to Go

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Pentagon's fourth UAP release lands — and the pattern is what the documents don't say

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Taiwan grounds flights and pulls thousands ashore as Typhoon Bavi sweeps in

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

The plate that used to sit on the table: food apps, gig work, and the quiet renegotiation of the urban Indian family meal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

China escalates flood response along Zhejiang–Fujian coast as Typhoon Bavi bears down

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

A thousand years of stone, still speaking: the Dazu carvings that outlasted the dynasties that made them

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

China's eastern seaboard grinds to a halt as Typhoon Bavi triggers mass cancellations

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Manila shuts the door on Beijing talks as Manila braces for a tougher anti-espionage regime

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Beijing puts a 100-gigawatt microwave weapon on the parade ground: what the unveiling actually says

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Inside the BJP's vice-presidential arithmetic: why the race is suddenly open

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

India thaws toward Beijing while Kashmir's opposition tries to rally a Delhi protest

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Russia and China block UN Security Council push on Iran as E3 drafts new sanctions package

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

SK Hynix lands a $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut — and a new fault line for Seoul

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Delhi recalibrates: the slow thaw in India–China ties and what it actually changes

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

China unveils 100-gigawatt microwave weapon aimed at drones, electronic systems

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Tokyo floats a veterans' agency as Japan's recruitment crisis deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

Nanya's 2027 capex pivot signals Taiwan's bet that the memory cycle has bottomed

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

SoftBank and PayPay move to anchor Seven & i with $1.9bn as Couche-Tard shadow looms

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

OpenAI and Google allegedly kept serving AI tools to blacklisted Chinese firms through Singapore subsidiaries

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia11 Jul

Xi tells Pyongyang the friendship holds — what the timing signals

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jul

Iranian crude piles up off China as independent refiners quietly pivot to the Gulf

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia11 Jul

South Korea's monks try matchmaking where Seoul's apps have failed

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Beijing refuses to clear the air on Russia's nuclear posture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Xi tells Pyongyang: the socialist cause goes on, together

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

When the state apparatus stalls, hobby drones show up: China's flood-relief civilian corps

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Pyongyang builds a city: what 10,000 Pyongyang apartments really tell us

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Pezeshkian's Pakistan detour: how a regional mediator got pulled into the Iran–US frame

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

The New Left's Long March Through Beijing's Discourse

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Quadcopter drones over Shuja'iyya: the close-range phase of Gaza City's eastern edge

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

The yen slide the headlines missed: what 152 is really doing to Tokyo and Tokyo's creditors

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

A 15-metre neck in the ground: Thailand's latest sauropod rewrites the sauropod map of Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Rybar's morning digest: Ukrainian fuel infrastructure under sustained strike pressure

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Tehran's parliament speaker casts doubt on US talks: 'Only those ready for war can negotiate'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

In Parachinar, a procession staged for a guide who hasn't died: reading Iran's theatrical mourning in Pakistan's tribal belt

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia10 Jul

Pezeshkian's peace warning puts Tehran back in the diplomatic frame

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Tehran's shipping 'malfunction' line, and what it tells Washington

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Typhoon Bavi bears down on Taiwan as island's emergency services shift to high alert

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Dalian, Liaoning and the Japan-China Economic Mirror

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Kirin's bet: Asia, not alcohol, becomes the growth engine

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Rafael's Iron Dome playbook lands in India

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Helsinki dinner, Beijing restraint: Stubb says China is privately telling Moscow not to go nuclear

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Zelensky reads a sharper Chinese edge into Moscow's nuclear chatter

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

US, Iran, Pakistan, Qatar line up four-way call as Trump signals nuclear-track deal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Johor's quiet verdict: what Malaysia's southern bellwether tells us about Anwar's coalition

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan Tests a Diplomatic Lane in Libya, and Watches What Travels Back

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

SK Hynix's $26.5bn US listing redraws the chip capital map

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Islamabad and Doha reach for the phone as US-Iran rhetoric hardens

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Kyiv's signal that Beijing drew a red line around Russia's nuclear option

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

UN Security Council deadlocks on Iran as Resolution 2231 expiry reshapes the constraint architecture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan walks a tightrope between Tehran and Doha as US-Iran diplomacy wobbles

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jul

Hydrogen takes the long road: China's bet and the climate toll that arrived first

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jul

Pakistan picks up the phone as Iran tensions flare

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia10 Jul

Qatari shuttlecraft: Tehran warns Pakistan army chief US 'adventurism' will not stand in Islamabad pact

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jul

Helium choke and yuan reserves: two moves, one signalling war

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 Jun

China's tungsten grip tightens, and US scrap flows reroute toward Tokyo

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia10 Jun

Ramos-Horta takes the stage as Nikkei's Future of Asia confronts a region rewriting its own rules

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jun

Three India stories in one afternoon: a city drain, a crash anniversary, a building fire

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Pyongyang walks out of the Beijing summit with the bigger headline

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jun

Taiwan fires US-made mobile launchers at China for the first time, as cross-strait signalling intensifies

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jun

Taiwan fires US-supplied HIMARS into the Strait as opposition warns Taipei is being treated as a 'pawn'

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jun

Manila reaches for a sea border with Tokyo, and the South China Sea calculus shifts

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jun

Pyongyang pact and a PPI surprise: two reads on China's strategic posture

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Beijing’s AI anxiety: PLA flags sycophancy risk as robotics push accelerates

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Pakistan strikes Afghan border region, ending a months-long lull

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jun

Deadly week in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir tests the line between insurgency and protest

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jun

Pakistan strikes inside Afghanistan kill 13, Taliban says, as cross-border tensions reopen

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Meta's Reliance deal hands India's AI build to the country's largest conglomerate — and asks harder questions of every Western platform trying to follow

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia10 Jun

Pakistan's Airstrikes in Afghanistan and the Strait of Hormuz Risk: Two Fronts of a Widening South-Asian Crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Nintendo shares slide after Direct lineup leans on legacy ports

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia10 Jun

A year after the Ahmedabad crash, the questions and the deposit math India can't avoid

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia10 Jun

Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan raise the cost of a long-running border standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia09 Jun

Japan moves to defend its seed and sky ambitions as two industries stake out a post-agrarian future

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia09 Jun

Rural Japan bets on the domestic tourist as the yen keeps overseas trips out of reach

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Toyota backs Tier IV in self-driving push, betting that capital and code travel together

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia09 Jun

Two moves, one signal: Indonesia tightens as Hanwha anchors the first fully onshore US solar chain

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

China's electric SUV boom is a contradiction Beijing cannot outrun

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Pakistan-administered Kashmir jolted by trader killing and banned-group protests

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Israeli strikes in Lebanon puncture the Trump timeline for an Iran deal

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia09 Jun

BYD's 80% China EV forecast lands as exports jump 19% in May

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a two-day bet on leverage, not alliance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia09 Jun

Pentagon's China military list lands without a press conference — and the questions it leaves open

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia09 Jun

Bangladesh's power glut is now a fiscal problem, not an engineering one

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

China's EV charge and export surge: two data points, one industrial story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

China's footprint inside Western defence supply chains is widening — and the West is only now beginning to price it

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia09 Jun

Algeria's two-sea missile drill and China's thorium milestone point to a quieter kind of contest

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia09 Jun

China's car market just had its worst May in years — and the EV transition isn't the only thing straining

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Tokyo's $480bn Cash Pile and Tehran's Travel Cage: Two Faces of a Multipolar Week

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia09 Jun

Xi's Pyongyang return resets the China–North Korea ledger — and tests Washington's patience

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia09 Jun

Pentagon adds BYD, Baidu, Alibaba to list of companies accused of working with China's military

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia08 Jun

Tehran–Washington talks inch forward via Islamabad, but no final text yet

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 Jun

Xi's Pyongyang visit recasts the China–North Korea axis as a counter-hegemonic signal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

Pentagon names BYD, Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese-military collaborators — a list with a four-month backstory

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

Pyongyang's war ledger: how North Korea's Ukraine windfall reshapes the China–Russia triangle

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang: a state visit that rewrites the optics of the China–DPRK axis

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 Jun

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a calibrated signal, not a realignment

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 Jun

Xi in Pyongyang: A Visit That Tilts the Asian Balance

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

Seoul's chip-led rally is unwinding, and Lee's growth pitch now has to compete with the tape

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 Jun

South Korea's 24-hour stress test, in four signals

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

Rare earths to Japan, beef to Australia: the parallel squeeze

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 Jun

KOSPI halts after 8% open drop, testing the substrate under Korea's semiconductor model

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 Jun

South Korea's leveraged rally and the base beneath it

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia07 Jun

Tiananmen in 2026: The Cost of Enforced Forgetting

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia07 Jun

The 80% drop: China's rare-earth squeeze on Japan, decoded

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia07 Jun

Protests test South Korea's election machinery while its startup engine hums

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia07 Jun

China's transport-ministry maritime operation east of Taiwan reads as a signal to the Tokyo–Manila axis

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia07 Jun

Pyongyang sets the floor: Kim Yo Jong tells Xi the nuclear programme is 'absolutely non-negotiable'

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia06 Jun

Pakistan sends its interior minister to Tehran — and the choice of courier is the story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia06 Jun

China's $13 trillion fund industry gets its marching orders

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia06 Jun

Toyota plants two flags in motorsport: a kart factory and a hydrogen endurance racer

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia05 Jun

Fars News CEO publicly faults Tehran on war damage, Pakistan talks, and the Trump information war

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia05 Jun

SpaceX's IPO shuts out Chinese and Hong Kong capital — and a $1T sell-off lands the same day

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia05 Jun

SpaceX's China Investor Bar: When the Cap Table Becomes the Export Control

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia05 Jun

India posts 7.8% growth, RBI holds rates as rupee drifts to historic lows

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia05 Jun

Japan's Palantir Moment: The Data-Sovereignty Question Tokyo Hasn't Answered

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia05 Jun

China tightens the leash on viral micro dramas

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia04 Jun

Gazprom's Single-Day SPIEF Sweep: Singapore, Serbia, Belarus in 49 Minutes

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia04 Jun

Putin's Three-Message Brief to India: Su-57, Four Poles, and a Defence of Pakistan

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia04 Jun

North Korea Goes 'Exponential' Again. The Buildout Is the Story.

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia04 Jun

Beijing's 4 June pressure play: Tiananmen silence, NZ travel ban, Tokyo-Manila warning

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia04 Jun

China warns of "unprecedented" countermeasures as Japan, Philippines tighten Taiwan coordination

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia04 Jun

Fire, methanol, a cabinet cheque: one day inside India's safety state

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

South Delhi hotel fire kills 21 as building safety fails again

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

Trump calls Xi 'a good man' — the US-China register resets, briefly

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia03 Jun

Rubio defends twin US commitments: $14B Taiwan arms review and Iran war cost criticism

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

Tehran's red line: Araghchi tells Pakistan Lebanon and Iran are one war

Venkataraman · MENA · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

BOJ's Ueda keeps the rate-hike option deliberately open

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

Prabowo fires free-meals chief as Indonesia's signature welfare scheme hits food-safety crisis

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

The Aravalli in committee: what a Supreme Court panel, a 31-year wage case, and the monsoon say about how India governs

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

A morning in China: services PMI, swarm drones, and a million-liked chocolate painting

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia03 Jun

India's clean-energy build-out is outrunning the grid meant to carry it

Venkataraman · South Asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

Delhi's death traps and the aspirational economy the city refuses to police

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia03 Jun

Anta Joins Nike and Adidas on the Sportswear Podium — Now Comes the Hard Part

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia03 Jun

Yen through 160 again: same playbook, same result

Venkataraman · Japan · 6 min
Asia02 Jun

Beijing's Commodity Discipline: Quota Walls and Processing Control

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia02 Jun

China Faces Dual Pressure as Historic Floods Compound Strategic Oil Drawdown

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

China's tariff diplomacy and the scramble it is causing worldwide

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Indonesia's shrinking surplus signals Southeast Asia's exposure to Iran war spillover

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia02 Jun

Rubio Confirms Khamenei Alive, But Iran's Leadership Vacuum Deepens

Venkataraman · Middle East / Iran · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Same F-15 Pilot Confirmed Shot Down Twice as Iran Escalation Strains India's Rupee Defenses

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Nadiem Makarim Calls Indonesia Chromebook Graft Charges an 'Illusion' of Law

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Zhipu AI and Minimax Chase Shanghai Listings as Beijing Rewrites the Rules of Tech Capital

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

India's Ladakh gambit: infrastructure, dialogue, and the long shadow of terror

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia02 Jun

Japan's Philippines Gambit: What Tokyo's Maritime Gamble Tells Us About Asia's Strategic Realignment

Venkataraman · east-asia-southeast-asia · 6 min
Asia02 Jun

China's AI Unicorns Turn to Shanghai for Dual Listings

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia02 Jun

AirTrunk's $21bn India Bet Is the Biggest Signal Yet That Asia's Digital Infrastructure Race Has a New Starting Line

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia02 Jun

The Militant's Pill: How Captagon Became the Currency of Middle East Conflict

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Bangladesh Looks East as India Water-Sharing Deadlock Drags Into Seventh Decade

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Bluestar week, cow politics, and the opposition: India at a nationalist crossroads

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia02 Jun

India's Opposition Mobilises as Delhi Expands Its Western Security Partnerships

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia02 Jun

Russia Issues 10 Billion Yuan in Sovereign Bonds — the Anatomy of a Sanctions Workaround

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

Iran Signals Hormuz Pressure as US Diplomatic Channels Fall Silent

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

India's 'Cockroach' Youth Movement Takes Its grievances to the Streets

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

China's AI Drone Swarm Tests the Limits of US Military Dialogue

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

India's AI Frontier and the Box Office Equation

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

India's Exam Board Confirms Cyber Gaps After Teenage Researcher Alert

Venkataraman · south-asia · 2 min
Asia01 Jun

From Exam Portals to Ocean Reefs: India's Youth Flexes a New Kind of Muscle

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia01 Jun

China's Industrial Overcapacity Spills Across Three Fronts — From Fighter Jets to Steel Mills

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

China's Panda Bond Surge and the Quiet Renminbisation of Global Finance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

Lukashenko Defends Kim Jong Un, Calls North Korean Leader 'Not a Dictator'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

Japan's Nikkei Hits Record 67,000 as Market Momentum Meets Geopolitical Reckoning

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia01 Jun

Japan's Record Crude Reserve Drawdown Complicates Energy calculus as Storm season Opens

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

Beijing's Quiet Currency Experiment Is Winning Over Global Bond Markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

US Strikes Iran as Israel Takes Beaufort Castle, Peace Talks Falter

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 6 min
Asia01 Jun

Vietnam's Digital Asset Gamble: Can Crypto Collateral Unlock SME Finance?

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

Taiwan's KMT leader begins US visit amid party defense cuts controversy

Venkataraman · east-asia · 3 min
Asia01 Jun

Japanese Scientists Engineer Enhanced Vitamin K With Potential to Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia01 Jun

India's energy dilemma: structural reform in an era of expensive capital

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia01 Jun

Trump Push for Fort Knox Physical Audit Puts US Gold Transparency Back on the Table

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

India's Energy Bills Rise While Its Crypto Doors Swing Open — A Tale of Two Economic Signals

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia31 May

Seoul's Parallel Tracks: AI Companions for the Elderly and a Diplomatic Thaw with Tokyo

Venkataraman · east-asia · 7 min
Asia31 May

Beijing's Dual Track: Surveillance Exports and Trade Threats Expose the Logic of Chinese State Capitalism

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia31 May

Iranian Ballistic Missile Debris Hits Kuwait Base; Five U.S. Servicemembers Reportedly Wounded

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia31 May

Explosion at Myanmar Warehouse Kills Dozens as Civil War Intensifies in Shan State

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 6 min
Asia31 May

Pentagon Rewrites Counter-Drone Playbook After Ukraine Battlefield Lessons

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

Nepal PM's border claim revives a dormant territorial dispute with India

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia31 May

Belarus Holds the Line While Iran Rebuilds: Two Flashpoints, One Geopolitical Signal

Venkataraman · europe-middle-east · 5 min
Asia31 May

China Expels NYT Reporter After Presidential Interview as Taiwan Press Freedom Tensions Simmer

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia31 May

China Trade Warning Meets Domestic Mine Tragedy as Beijing Navigates Dual Pressures

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

Taiwan levies first carbon charges on big emitters as weekend payment deadline looms

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

China's Digital Yuan Finds Its Clearinghouse

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

China's Regulatory Discipline and the West's Imagination Problem

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia31 May

India Cuts Fuel Export Duties: What the Policy Shift Signals for Regional Energy Markets

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia31 May

Bihar's welfare targeting pivot shows how India's states are building the data architecture of social policy

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia31 May

Hegseth's Indo-Pacific Buildup Meets Beijing's Stability Appeal as US-China Tensions Test Regional Equilibrium

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia31 May

Markets Bet on US-China Tariff Agreement, but Taiwan Question Looms

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 May

Hegseth's Singapore signal: India as anchor, China as counterweight

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia30 May

Japan's Shrinking Cities: Census Data Exposes a Demographic Reckoning Decades in the Making

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia30 May

Godzilla El Niño Threatens to Upend Asian Food Security

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 May

Turkey and Japan Signal Joint Ambitions in Drone Development

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia30 May

China's Archaeology Wars: Discovery, Legitimacy, and the Price of Graft

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia30 May

China's AI Governance Gambit and the South China Sea Test

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Beijing embeds digital yuan into fiscal machinery as tariff pressure mounts

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Beijing's Dual Pressure Test: Regulatory Cleanup and the Quiet Crisis at China's State Automakers

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia30 May

Delhi Police Sweep Nabs Nine in ISI-Linked Terror Probe, Seizes Arms Cache

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia30 May

Delhi Police Dismantle Suspected ISI-Linked Cell, Seize Arms Cache

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia30 May

Hegseth Warns of China’s 'Historic Military Buildup' as Pacific Balance Shifts

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Myanmar's military president reaches New Delhi as India navigates a delicate balancing act

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Drive Oil to $160 Forecast as Japan Imports Plunge

Venkataraman · middle-east-asia · 5 min
Asia30 May

India's Courts Draw a Line on Platform Accountability: Google Pays Damages as Delhi Upholds Digital Brand Rights

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia30 May

India's Regulatory Turn: Courts and Watchdogs Tighten the Reins on Big Tech

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Hegseth's Shangri-La Warning: US Sounds Alarm on China Without Reaching for the Trigger

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 May

Shangri-La Dialogue Meets Hormuz Crisis: Asia's Defense and Energy Fault Lines Converge

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia29 May

China Sentences Former Shaolin Temple Abbot to 24 Years for Embezzlement and Bribery

Venkataraman · East Asia · 4 min
Asia29 May

Romania Drone Incident Tests NATO's Article 5 Red Lines

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia29 May

Vietnam's To Lam charts a middle path at the Shangri-La Dialogue

Venkataraman · east-asia-southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Pakistan's No: Why Trump's Abraham Accords Pitch Faces a Harder Sell Than the Gulf

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

China Sentences Former Shaolin Temple Head to 24 Years

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

MediaTek's Dual-Foundry Bet Reshapes the Advanced Packaging Race

Venkataraman · Taiwan / United States · 4 min
Asia29 May

Hormuz at the Edge: Military Strikes, Diplomatic Hopes, and the Oil Market's $160 Question

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia29 May

Beijing's Dual Signal: Diplomacy in New York, Infrastructure Spree at Home

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia29 May

The Delhi Gymkhana controversy: when elite clubs become political flashpoints

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Seoul's Dual Export Push: Medical Tourism and Crypto Infrastructure Converge

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

OKX and Korean Brokerage Buy Into Coinone as Seoul Signals Crypto Opening

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Delhi High Court Refuses to Restore Cockroach Janta Party’s X Account

Venkataraman · South Asia · 3 min
Asia29 May

Iran's Pezeshkian Strengthens Ties With Malaysia and Pakistan in Eid Diplomatic Push

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia29 May

Kakao Strike Threat Tests South Korea's Gig-Economy Labor Awakening

Venkataraman · East Asia · 3 min
Asia29 May

AI reshapes finance careers as Hong Kong and Singapore face graduate jobs crunch

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Innovent Biologics' $10.5bn Pfizer Deal Tests the Limits of US-China Pharma Cooperation

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Japan's Naphtha Crunch: How Shifting Energy Flows Are Stress-Testing Tokyo's Petrochemical Future

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 May

Taiwan's Budget Travellers Are Rewriting Japan's Tourism Map

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

India's chemical trade under pressure as West Asia conflict reshapes global supply chains

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia28 May

Siddaramaiah Quits: Karnataka Congress Faces a Succession Crisis at the Worst Possible Time

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia28 May

Vietnam's To Lam Makes First ASEAN Visit as Hanoi Reshapes Regional Diplomacy

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

China's AI Token Gambit, Robot IDs, and the End of the Auto Golden Era

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia28 May

Drone Dominance and the New Architecture of Geopolitical Dependency

Venkataraman · europe · 6 min
Asia28 May

Samsung Trio Backs Into Crypto With $408 Million Dunamu Stake as Kakao Exits

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

DJI Releases Independent Security Audit as US Drone Ban Push Intensifies

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia28 May

Trump Imagery Is Spreading Through Asia By Unconventional Routes — And Washington May Be Watching

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

Japan strengthens regional alliances as defense modernization accelerates

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

Siddaramaiah Quits: Karnataka's Congress Faces Post-Utopia Reckoning

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

Jensen Huang Board Appointment at Tsinghua University: Geopolitical Chess or Corporate Routine

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia28 May

Three Signals From Beijing's Industrial Front: NIO's Warning, 3M's PFAS Liability, and a Dutch Warship Turned Back

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia28 May

YouTube's AI Content Crackdown Raises Stakes for Creators and Platform Accountability

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

Nvidia's Huang Takes a Seat at Tsinghua While Betting $150 Billion on Taiwan

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

EU Auditors in India Test the Limits of Visa Outsourcing Governance

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia28 May

Nvidia's Taiwan Bet and the AI Industry's Convenient Recalibration

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia28 May

The Assembly Line Gap: How China Left the Global Auto Industry Behind

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 May

The Gospel According to Trump: How a Buffalo Became Bangladesh's Most Famous Animal

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia27 May

Taiwan's Stock Market Hits Record High as AI Boom Reshapes Asia's Financial Landscape

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 May

India's AI-Generated Political Spectacle and the Heat Wave Democracy Cannot Ignore

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia27 May

Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit: 'Open to Everybody' and the Iran Deal Calculus

Venkataraman · americas|middle-east · 6 min
Asia27 May

Japan's Biggest Intelligence Overhaul Since WWII: What the New Spy Agency Means for Asia's Security Architecture

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia27 May

China's Carbon Accounting Revision and the Talent Wall: Two Signals, One Trajectory

Venkataraman · asia · 8 min
Asia27 May

The Multipolar Myth Is Dead. India Is Still Figuring Out What Comes Next.

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia27 May

The Multipolar Myth: What Vijay Gokhale's Framework Tells Us About India's Strategic Crossroads

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia27 May

China's Tech Ambitions Meet Labour Market Reality Check

Venkataraman · east-asia · 8 min
Asia27 May

India's Extreme Heat Exposes Structural Fault Lines as Death Toll Mounts in Telangana

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia27 May

Was Marco Rubio's visit a reset in India-US ties?

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia27 May

Republican Congressman Drew a Virtual Survey on 'Biggest Threat to Freedom.' Online Respondents Said: Israel.

Venkataraman · north-america · 5 min
Asia27 May

Japan's Credit Crunch: Auto Sector Supply Shock Meets Central Bank Policy Test

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia27 May

Trump Trade Chief Sets Stage for China Board of Trade Amid Tariff Standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 May

Rubio's Delhi visit crystallises a convergence India had been quietly engineering for years

Venkataraman · South Asia / United States · 4 min
Asia27 May

India-US Convergence: What Rubio's Visit Reveals About New Delhi's New Strategic Bargain

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia27 May

Delhi's Twin Environmental Crises: Water Sickness and the Dust Wars

Venkataraman · south-asia · 2 min
Asia26 May

North Korea Claims AI-Guided Cruise Missile Test Amid Escalation Pattern

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia26 May

India locks in $39bn Rafale deal in signal to Beijing and deepening France partnership

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia26 May

Rubio Senate Testimony to Frame US Iran Policy as Diplomatic Window Narrows

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia26 May

Ferrari's Electric Pivot: The Luce Lands as Markets Frown

Venkataraman · global · 4 min
Asia26 May

CENTCOM Denies It, but Open Sources Say Otherwise: Inside the Contradiction Over Strait of Hormuz Escort Missions

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia26 May

Beijing's Energy Buffer: China's Pre-Summer Coal Stockpile and the Quiet Restructuring of Its Power Sector

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia26 May

U.S. Navy Revives Strait of Hormuz Escort Program as Regional Tensions Resurface

Venkataraman · Middle East / Persian Gulf · 6 min
Asia26 May

Indonesia bans Polymarket as Jakarta tightens grip on digital platforms

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 6 min
Asia26 May

India's Wildlife Monitoring Boom and the Privacy Paradox at Its Borders

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia26 May

Quad's Fiji Port: Infrastructure Diplomacy or Containment Theater?

Venkataraman · oceania · 5 min
Asia26 May

Beijing builds the regulatory scaffolding for its next aviation era

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia26 May

Binance Returns to the Philippines via Regulatory Sandbox, Complicating OKX's Infrastructure Push

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia26 May

Hyperliquid's HIP-4 and the Polymarket Crackdown: Two Responses to the Same Problem

Venkataraman · Asia-Pacific · 5 min
Asia26 May

Iran's Araqchi Offers Condolences After China Coal Mine Explosion Kills 82

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia26 May

Delhi's fourth CNG price hike in two weeks exposes consumer energy squeeze

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia26 May

Xi Awards Friendship Medal to Vucic as Beijing Courts a European Partner

Venkataraman · china-serbia-europe · 5 min
Asia26 May

India's rising presence at Cannes reflects a film industry in structural transition

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia26 May

Trump Ballroom Funding Push Collides With Xi–Japan Summit Tensions

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia25 May

Iran Pushes Back on 'Imminent' Deal Claims as Trump Confirms Gaps Remain

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia25 May

Tehran's Taj Jibe: How Iran's Hyderabad Consulate Took a Diplomatic Shot at Rubio

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

India's Balancing Act: Infrastructure Scares, Fuel Costs, and the AI Reskilling Reckoning

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

Dugin's North Korea Praise and Internet-for-Good-Behavior Proposal Exposes Russian Ideological Contradictions

Venkataraman · russia-asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

Dugin's Conditional Internet: What Rationing Access Reveals About Russia's Information Sovereignty Project

Venkataraman · russia-eurasia · 7 min
Asia25 May

Iran Denies Nuclear Concession Reports While Seeking Chinese Guarantees for US Deal

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia25 May

Four price rises in a month: India's domestic squeeze and the capital moving outward

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

Pakistan's Shehbaz Sharif Flags Iran-US Diplomatic Headway During Beijing Visit

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

India's Currency, Fuel, and Capital: Three Pressures Converge

Venkataraman · South Asia · 3 min
Asia25 May

Oil Prices Slip as Trump Signals US-Iran Deal Near, Strait of Hormuz in Play

Venkataraman · middle-east · 3 min
Asia25 May

Rubio at the Taj Mahal: Cultural Diplomacy or Signal in a Shifting Diplomatic Landscape

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia25 May

Singapore's winning streak: 6% growth, a banking overhaul, and the geopolitical wind at its back

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 3 min
Asia25 May

Trump's Thai Gambit: Iran's Unusual Diplomatic Riposte and the Fraying Edge of 'Maximum Pressure'

Venkataraman · Middle East / Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Tanker Traffic, Ceasefire Talks, and the Strait's Fragile Future

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

Iran-US Détente Opens the Strait of Hormuz — But Tehran's Military Drills Tell a More Cautious Story

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia25 May

Tiangong's New Guard: China Extends the Art of Institutional Spaceflight Patience

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia25 May

China's Tiangong Crew Settles In as Moon Ambition Sharpens the US Space Race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 May

Eid in the Shadow of War: Pakistan's Livestock Markets Caught Between Tehran and Washington

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia24 May

White House Sets Deadline as Iran Nuclear Talks Stall Over Uranium Demand

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia24 May

Inside India's pole vault battleground: when records fall and legacies form

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia24 May

China's Human-Touch Automation: Passenger Comfort and the Shenzhou-23 Milestone

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia24 May

Trump Tells India to Call Him — but the Betting Markets Think It Is All Talk

Venkataraman · south asia · 5 min
Asia24 May

Trump's Iran Gambit and the Immigration Crackdown: Two Threads, One Playbook

Venkataraman · americas,mena · 5 min
Asia24 May

China's Dual Play: Technology Push and Global South Aid Strategy

Venkataraman · china | cuba | global · 5 min
Asia24 May

China Doubles Down on Migrants and Africa in a Week of Strategic Gestures

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia24 May

The Mugshot, the Trade War, and the Debt: Trump's Contradictory China Week

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia24 May

India's $500 Billion U.S. Shopping List: Deal or Distraction?

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia24 May

Trump's 50/50 Iran Gambit: Deal or War Room Weekend?

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia24 May

Hotel Collapse in Philippines Revives Questions About Construction Oversight in Southeast Asia

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia24 May

Baloch Militants Strike Quetta as Pakistan Navigates US-Iran Diplomatic Opening

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia24 May

Quetta Train Derailment: Pakistan Grapples With Deadly Railway Blast

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia24 May

Hong Kong's Quiet Tech Reckoning: Sovereignty, Platforms, and the Cost of Alignment

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia24 May

The Prize Question: What Happens When AI Wins the Booker

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia24 May

Beijing's Dual Ambition: China's Space Program and the Mining Disaster That Complicates Its Narrative

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia24 May

Pakistan Offers to Host Peace Talks as Trump Courts Regional Leaders

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 3 min
Asia24 May

Japan's Tight Labor Market Wrestles With AI and a Shrinking Workforce

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Beijing's Industrial Paradox: Deep-Sea Record and Deadliest Mining Disaster in the Same Week

Venkataraman · china · 7 min
Asia23 May

Trump Signals Iran-US Memorandum Near Completion, Three-Stage Framework Emerges

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia23 May

Vietnam's Soldier Who Held the Grenade and the Stories the West Doesn't Tell About Hanoi

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 May

Iran-Pakistan Diplomatic Thaw: Islamabad Congratulates Tehran on Negotiations as Regional Tensions Ease

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia23 May

Iran Denies Blocking NPT Vote as Nuclear Deal Uncertainty Persists

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia23 May

Rubio's Delhi Visit Exposes India's Tightrope as Iran Tensions Escalate

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Shanxi Coal Mine Explosion Kills Dozens in China's Industrial Heartland

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Iran Eyes Pakistan Draft Deal as Tehran Rejects US Hormuz Role

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia23 May

Manila Fire Prompts Questions About Information Gaps in Southeast Asian Disaster Coverage

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Rubio Lands in New Delhi With Energy diplomacy and a Geopolitical Overhang

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia23 May

Coal Mine Explosion in Shanxi Leaves Eight Dead, 38 Trapped as Rescuers Race Against Time

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia23 May

Guzman y Gomez Bids Farewell to the American Dream, and Leaves Questions Behind

Venkataraman · australia-usa · 5 min
Asia23 May

India's Cockroach Uprising: Youth Anger Meets Fuel Shock

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia23 May

Southeast Asia's Biofuel Bet Risks Squeezing Food Supplies and Export Revenues

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia23 May

China's Seven Titans Face a Reckoning as Deflation Overpowers the AI Optimism Trade

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Vigilance Raid Exposes Rs 350 Crore Procurement Irregularities at Delhi CPA

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia23 May

Beijing's Twin Signals: Carrier Aviation and the Myanmar Fraud Crackdown

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

Beijing's Dual Signal: Urban Reform Meets Strategic Stockpiling as China Plays a Long Game on Economic Security

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

India's Corporate Giants Face Dual Pressure: Sun Pharma's Margins Widen While Air India's Turnaround Hits Turbulence

Venkataraman · india · 5 min
Asia22 May

China-Russia Summit in Beijing Sends Measured but Deliberate Signal to Washington

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

Britain Grounds Its Flagship Air Show as US Rearms for Iran: Three Signals in One Week

Venkataraman · europe-asia-mena · 5 min
Asia22 May

Iran Nuclear Talks Stuck in Familiar Place as Both Sides Reject Flexibility Claims

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia22 May

China's Algorithmic Governance Push and the Strategic Mineral Buildout Underneath It

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia22 May

China's Biodiversity Front and the Sanctions Shadow

Venkataraman · east-asia-pacific · 5 min
Asia22 May

Pentagon Pauses $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package as Strategic Uncertainty Grips U.S.-Asia Policy

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

Gas Well Fire in Aceh Puts Indonesia's Drilling Safety Standards Under Scrutiny

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia22 May

Quad Foreign Ministers Head to New Delhi as Indo-Pacific Alliance Tests Its Strategic Direction

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia22 May

India abstains as US, Russia reject UN climate resolution — and heat pushes its courts to breaking point

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia22 May

India's Language Wars Head to Supreme Court as CBSE Three-Language Rule Faces Legal Test

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

Pakistan and Iran Push Forward on Diplomatic Track as Regional Alliances Shift

Venkataraman · south-asia-middle-east · 4 min
Asia22 May

Pakistan, Iran Foreign Ministers Hold Follow-Up Meeting as Diplomatic Contacts Intensify

Venkataraman · south-asia-mena · 4 min
Asia22 May

War's Shadow Over the Rupee: RBI Faces a Rate-Hike Dilemma as Bond Markets Reprice Risk

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia22 May

China Backs Havana Against US 'Sanction Club' as Dollar Leverage on Cuba Comes Under Diplomatic Fire

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia22 May

Japan's twin recalibrations: banks pivot from collateral, Mazda from showrooms

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

South Korea's Liberal Party Tests Conservative Heartland in Daegu Mayoral Race

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Pakistan Army Chief's Tehran Visit Cancelled at Short Notice

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia21 May

Terra Drone Indonesia CEO Sentenced to 16 Months Over Fatal Warehouse Fire

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Japan's Shelter Gap: A Missile Defence Dilemma the Budget Won't Solve

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Belarus Nuclear Drills Signal Deeper Russian Integration, Lukashenko Says

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia21 May

India's Courts Are Doing the Work of a Maturing Democracy — Under Political Pressure

Venkataraman · South Asia · 6 min
Asia21 May

Court Blocks Himachal's Bid to Shield Anti-Corruption Bureau from Transparency Law

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

China Lodges Formal Protest as US-Taiwan Diplomatic Contact Rattles Beijing

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Fire Destroys 1,200-Year-Old Buddhist Temple Near Hiroshima; Sacred Eternal Flame Survives

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 May

Calcutta High Court Orders CBI SIT Probe Into RG Kar Rape-Murder Timeline as India Accelerates Railway Safety Overhaul

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia21 May

Bangkok's Haze Crisis Meets Tourism Crackdown: Thailand Tries to Fix Two Crises at Once

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

South Korea's Market Roars Back as Samsung Strike Ends and AI Chipmaker FuriosaAI Rises

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia21 May

Woman's Final Words: Delhi Homicide Unit Opens Case After Fatal Domestic Complaint

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia21 May

India's Parallel Crises: Violence Against Women and the Muzzling of the Press

Venkataraman · south_asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Trump's Taiwan Call and the 1% That Tells the Real Story

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 May

India's High Courts Are Rewriting the Rules on Family, Dignity and Criminal Justice

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

SpaceX IPO Filing Lays Bare $1.75 Trillion Bet on Musk's Interlocked Empire

Venkataraman · north america · 5 min
Asia21 May

India's European Pivot: From Strategic Margin to Diplomatic Center Stage

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia21 May

Berlin's Spy Headache: Germany Arrests Suspected Chinese Agents as Trade Ties Remain Untouchable

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia20 May

The Diplomatic Gap: Why Washington and Beijing's Taiwan Channels Stay in the Dark

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

China's Drone Patrols and the Surveillance Infrastructure Behind Routine Traffic Stops

Venkataraman · Asia · 3 min
Asia20 May

Trump and Netanyahu: Fracture Point on Iran Diplomacy

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia20 May

India's RBI Deploys $5 Billion Swap Auction as Rupee Tests 96 — and What the Western Frame Gets Wrong

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia20 May

Iran-US Backchannel Talks Ongoing, Tehran Confirms

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia20 May

Iran Demands Access to Frozen Funds as Araghchi Heads to UN Security Council

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia20 May

China, US Find Tariff Ground — But Diplomatic Friction Remains a Fixed Constant

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia20 May

Kremlin Buries 'Spirit of Anchorage'? Aide Denies Beijing Pivot While West Watches

Venkataraman · russia-asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Xi Positions China at the Axis of the New Multipolar Moment

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 May

China Makes Russia Visa-Free Entry Permanent Amid Western Sanctions Pressure

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 May

Russia and China Double Down on Rail Link as Visa-Free Travel Gets Extended

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia20 May

Putin's Beijing Visit Anchors Russia's Eastern Pivot as Energy Vows Meet Diplomatic Agenda

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia20 May

Putin and Xi Sign Deepening Relations Statement as Energy Partnership Takes Center Stage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Japan Rewrites Its Economic Map — From Warehouses to Tourist Trails

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Putin Extends Invitation to Xi Jinping for 2026 Russia Visit, Deepening Strategic Partnership

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Putin and Xi Hold Formal Talks in Beijing as BRICS Diplomatic Calendar Takes Centre Stage

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Meta Begins 8,000-Person Global Layoffs in Singapore, Workers Given 4 a.m. Notice

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 May

Putin lands in Beijing as Xi extends hand — the day after Trump left town

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Thailand Tightens the Welcome Mat: Visa-Free Stay Halved to 30 Days

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Asia's Coal Rebound: Energy Security Trumps Climate Pledges as Middle East Crisis Bites

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Japan Anchors Indonesia's South China Sea Fishing Ambitions

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia19 May

Blinken's Candid Admission and the Unfinished Business of American Primacy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 May

Rubio's New Delhi Visit Puts US-India Strategic Partnership Back in Focus

Venkataraman · South Asia · 6 min
Asia19 May

Putin Lands in Beijing as China-Russia Partnership Hardens Into a Counter-Order Signal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Putin Arrives in Beijing as Russia-China Summit Reshapes Diplomatic Calendar

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Xi Hosts Putin in Beijing as Sino-Russian Axis Solidifies Post-Trump Visit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Beijing Rolls Out the Red — and Red — Carpet as Putin Arrives for State Visit

Venkataraman · eurasia · 5 min
Asia19 May

India's $10 Billion Great Nicobar Gambit Tests the Limits of Malacca Strait Deterrence

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia19 May

Beijing Dressed in Flags: Putin's Visit Cements a Partnership the West Cannot Undo

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Delhi High Court Issues Notice to Kejriwal, Sisodia in Criminal Contempt Case Linked to Liquor Policy Scam

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Taiwan's Lai Faces the Midpoint Test as Geopolitical Crosscurrents Sharpen

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Trump Taiwan Odds Reveal the Cost of Strategic Ambiguity

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 May

Pakistan's Diplomatic Pivot: From Frontline Deployments to Back-Channel Mediation Between Washington and Tehran

Venkataraman · south-asia middle-east · 5 min
Asia19 May

Putin’s Beijing Charm Offensive: What the Second Xi Summit Tells Us About the New Multipolar Order

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 May

Japan's Corporate Diplomacy Problem: Antitrust Verdict and Texas Fossil Fuel Standoff Expose Double Standard in Tokyo's Global Ambitions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 May

Trump Tells Taiwan Not to Go Independent — But Does the Island Want To?

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 May

NEET-UG Paper Leak Exposes Fault Lines in India's Exam Governance Architecture

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

Pakistan's Tehran Gambit: Islamabad Steps Into the Iran Mediation Void

Venkataraman · South Asia / Middle East · 5 min
Asia18 May

Gulf States' Intervention Stalls Trump Administration's Iran Strike Plan

Venkataraman · middle-east · 6 min
Asia18 May

Leaked Documents Claim US Warned Pakistan to Remove Imran Khan

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

Iranian Tanker Breaks Through US Blockade to Dock at Kharg Island

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia18 May

Washington's 30-Day Russian Oil License: Humanitarian Cover or Dollar Containment by Design

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

US Reverses Russian Oil Sanctions Again as India Holds Firm on Purchases

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

Trump's Nvidia Purchase and the Chip-Export Timeline: What the Record Shows

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia18 May

Indian Courts Signal Accountability Imperative Across Citizenship, Institutional Conduct and Survivors' Rights

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia18 May

Pakistan Deploys 8,000 Troops and Fighter Squadron to Saudi Arabia Under Defense Pact

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

India's Delicate Equilibrium: Market Caution Meets Persian Gulf Geopolitics

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia18 May

Iran's Revised Proposal to the U.S.: What Islamabad's Back-Channel Diplomacy Tells Us

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia18 May

Singapore Small-Caps Defy the Middle East Cloud as Tech Takes the Lead

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia18 May

Hengyi's Xinjiang Coal-to-Chemicals Gamble: Energy Security or Climate Liability?

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia18 May

Beijing's Corn Card: How China's Farm Buying Became a Diplomatic Lever in the Pacific Standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia18 May

Taiwan's Lai says island won't provoke conflict but won't concede sovereignty after Trump-Xi talks

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia18 May

India's Strategic Contradictions: Nuclear Deals, Frozen Borders, and the Reform That Won't Come

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia18 May

The Silence Between Neighbours: Why India and Pakistan Stopped Talking

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia18 May

Silicon Ceiling: The Gap Between Washington's China Tech Policy and the Board's Imperative

Venkataraman · United States / China · 5 min
Asia18 May

Sovereign Funds and Wall Street Giants Are Quietly Monetising the Bitcoin Pivot

Venkataraman · global · 4 min
Asia17 May

How global bond indexes became the new arena for Asian financial power

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

China Pledges $17 Billion Annual US Farm Purchases Through 2028 in Bilateral Trade Deal

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 May

Delhi Heat Wave and ISL Title Race Converge as India Faces Dual Pressure Points

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Lindsey Graham's Taiwan-Iran calculus exposes the structural contradictions at the heart of US grand strategy

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia17 May

China's Scientific Ascent Meets the American Welcome — A Study in Contradiction

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 May

India's Russia Dilemma Deepens After Citizen Killed in Ukrainian Strike

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Trump Returns from Beijing with Taiwan on the Table — and a Tehran Problem Waiting

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia17 May

Netanyahu Puts Gaza Control at 60% as Israel Grapples With Evolving Drone Threat

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia17 May

India and Cambodia Conclude CINBAX-II 2026, Testing the Limits of Multipolar Military Partnership

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 6 min
Asia17 May

Dhaka's Water Ultimatum Exposes the Limits of India's Regional Diplomacy

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Beijing's Balanced Hand: What China's Trade Gambit With Washington Reveals

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Seoul Signals Intervention as Samsung Labor Tensions Near Breaking Point

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia17 May

Xi Jinping's 'Declining Power' Diagnosis Reveals Beijing's Strategic Confidence

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Trump Administration Lets Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Expire, Ratcheting Pressure on India

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia17 May

China's Quiet Acquisition of a German Industrial Icon Exposes Europe's Investment Defense Gap

Venkataraman · europe|asia · 4 min
Asia17 May

Putin's Beijing Visit Tests the Limits of the No-Limits Partnership

Venkataraman · eastern-europe, east-asia · 6 min
Asia17 May

Pakistan's Sharif Signals Diplomatic Push for Second Round of US-Iran Talks

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia16 May

USS Gerald R. Ford Returns to Norfolk After Extended Deployment

Venkataraman · Middle East, United States · 5 min
Asia16 May

US Lets Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Expire, Forcing Asian Buyers to Pivot

Venkataraman · Asia-Pacific · 5 min
Asia16 May

US Gulf Coalition Build-Up Runs Into Beijing's Defiance and a Two-Month Insurance Failure

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia16 May

Chinese Tanker Passes Through Strait of Hormuz Outside US Blockade Zone

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia16 May

China Calls Trump Visit Deals Preliminary as Diplomacy Meets Reality Check

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia16 May

Iran and Pakistan Signal Diplomatic Rapprochement as Border Talks Advance

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia16 May

Diplomatic Footwork: Thailand Seeks Hormuz Passage as Japan Breaks LNG Import Dry Spell

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 May

China's poverty record: the data, the dispute, and what it means for the global order

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 May

Chinese Tanker Crosses Strait of Hormuz Through Iran's Designated Route, Defying US Blockade Line

Venkataraman · middle-east · 6 min
Asia16 May

Train-Bus Collision Kills at Least 8 Near Bangkok

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia16 May

Trump's Beijing Calculus: Arms Holds, Aircraft Deals, and the Ukraine Aside

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia16 May

Trump's Iran Gambit Exposes the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia12 May

Malaysia's Cloud Seeding Gambit Exposes Southeast Asia's Rice Vulnerability

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia12 May

Miss Universe Philippines Win Reignites Debate Over Who Gets to Define 'Authentic' Filipino Identity

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia12 May

Monsoon Aftermath: Bangladesh Floods Threaten Rice Harvest at Critical Juncture

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia12 May

India's Antitrust Watchdog Turns the Page on Global Liquor Giants

Venkataraman · south_asia · 4 min
Asia12 May

BJP Completes West Bengal Sweep as Adhikari Sworn In, Ending TMC's Fifteen-Year Rule

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

Indonesia Busts Major Fraud Network in Batam Raid, Detains 200 Foreign Nationals

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia11 May

Beijing's High-Tech Expo Tells a Familiar Story — With China's Own Characters

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

France's Beijing Overture: Bon's Visit Signals a Diplomatic Hedge Against Washington

Venkataraman · europe-asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

US Sanctions Four Chinese Firms Days Before Reported Trump-Xi Meeting

Venkataraman · east-asia · 3 min
Asia11 May

Taiwan's $25 Billion Defense Bet and the Infrastructure Cracks Beneath the Crypto Boom

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia11 May

JinkoSolar's US Divestiture Marks New Phase in Solar Trade Standoff

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

Thailand's Thrift Wave: Japanese Retailers Bet on Secondhand as Consumption Shifts

Venkataraman · APAC · 5 min
Asia11 May

Hanoi's Great Rewriting: Vietnam's Capital Makes Its Highest-Stakes Bet

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

Huawei's Silent Dominance: How the Chinese Tech Giant Conquered Auto China 2026 Without Selling a Single Car

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia11 May

Iran Deepens China Ties as Araghchi Returns from Beijing with Strategic Consultations Agreement

Venkataraman · mena · 5 min
Asia09 May

BSF Headquarters Blast Sparks Security Review as Delhi Detention Widens Probe

Venkataraman · south_asia · 4 min
Asia09 May

Beijing's Calculated Opening: China's Mediation Gambit and the US Trade Signal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia09 May

Three Dead as Mount Dukono Erupts in Indonesia's North Maluku

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Kim Jong Un Congratulates Putin on Victory Day, Deepening Russia-DPRK Bond

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia08 May

Taiwan's Parliament Approves Extra Defence Spending, But Falls Short of Executive Target

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Iran's Envoy in Beijing Denies Role in Tanker Incident as Hormuz Tensions Surface Again

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 May

Taiwan's $25 Billion Defense Vote and the Semiconductors Behind It

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia08 May

Pakistan-Iran Corridor Tests the Limits of Hormuz Sanctions Architecture

Venkataraman · south-asia-middle-east · 4 min
Asia08 May

Beijing's Quiet Signal: China Sends Only Embassy Staff to Moscow's Victory Day Parade

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 May

Singapore Quarantine Highlights Cruise Ship Hantavirus Protocol as Asia Risk Remains Low

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia08 May

Taiwan Parliament Votes to Slash Defense Budget by More Than a Third

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Seoul's Local Vote Puts the US Alliance on the Ballot

Venkataraman · East Asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Japan Intervenes Again as Yen Pressure Mounts Amid Economic Slowdown

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia08 May

Japan's Dual Economic Signal: Services Sag as Wages Climb — and What It Means for the BOJ

Venkataraman · east-asia · 3 min
Asia08 May

Trump's Beijing gambit: a thin CEO delegation, big agricultural stakes, and an administration at odds with itself

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Polymarket Traders Are Betting on a US-China Tariff Deal by May 31

Venkataraman · americas | asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

China's Largest 500kV Substation Inspected During May Day Holiday: What the Maintenance Cycle Tells Us

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia08 May

Trump's Energy Claims and Pakistan's Quiet Lobbying: Inside the US-Iran Ceasefire Talks

Venkataraman · Middle East · 6 min
Asia08 May

Japan's quiet financial revolution: AI servers, on-chain bonds, and the architecture of tomorrow's money

Venkataraman · ASIA · 5 min
Asia07 May

The Tariff Agreement Puzzle: Why Polymarket Traders Doubt a US-China Deal Before Summer

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia07 May

Trump's CEO Carriage: Washington Inc. Goes to Beijing

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

Seoul and Tokyo's Upgraded 2+2: An Alliance Architecture Quietly Taking Shape

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

China's Gulf Gambit: Emirati Banking Expansion Meets UK Espionage Convictions

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia07 May

India’s first space unicorn: Skyroot’s $60M raise and the quiet privatization of the final frontier

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

The Nikkei Rallies While Bitcoin Retreats: Markets Price In an Iran Ceasefire

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

Russia's Victory Day Parade Underscores Narrowing Diplomatic Circle

Venkataraman · russia · 4 min
Asia07 May

India Supreme Court Taps Ex-CJI Chandrachud to Mediate High-Profile Estate Dispute

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia07 May

Iran Denies Role in Strait of Hormuz Incident Involving South Korean Vessel

Venkataraman · Middle East / East Asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

Seoul Defiant: South Korea Rejects Trump's 'Go It Alone' Framing as Market Milestone Shifts the Balance

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia07 May

Beijing Tells Tel Aviv: Hands Off Taiwan

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia07 May

AI Threatens the Indian Middle Class Built by Software Exporters

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia07 May

Pyongyang Stakes Its Claim: Nuclear Posture Locked In as First Russia-North Korea Road Bridge Nears Completion

Venkataraman · East Asia · 4 min
Asia07 May

BJP Leader's Close Aide Shot Dead in West Bengal Days After Party's Electoral Victory

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia07 May

Philippines GDP Slows to 2.8% as Iran War Hits Asian Economies Differently

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia07 May

India and Vietnam Elevate Ties to Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia07 May

China's Corporate Earnings Slump Enters a Third Year as Property Crisis Reshapes the Investment Case

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia06 May

North Korea Reaffirms Nuclear Weapons State Status, Rejects Treaty Obligations

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

BJP West Bengal Loss Exposes Fault Lines in India's Democratic Architecture

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia06 May

West Bengal's Election Violence and the BJP's New Pay Commission Test

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

Rezaei: America cannot escape Middle East with a show — but the show has already shifted

Venkataraman · MIDDLE_EAST · 4 min
Asia06 May

Trump's Iran offer exposes the fractures in maximum pressure's successor strategy

Venkataraman · ASIA · 4 min
Asia06 May

Iran's Beijing Gambit: Araghchi Seeks Chinese Backstop for a Post-War Regional Order

Venkataraman · Middle East | East Asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

China Rebuffs Taiwan President in Cross-Strait Escalation Warning

Venkataraman · east-asia · 2 min
Asia06 May

Iran's Araghchi lands in Beijing as ceasefire diplomacy pivots east

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia06 May

Iran's Araghchi lands in Beijing as China signals expanded peacemaking ambitions in the Middle East

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia06 May

After Mamata's Win, a Fragile Opening on the Teesta

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

Beijing Backs Tehran as Middle East Talks Fracture Along Familiar Lines

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

Vijay's TVK and the Fracturing of Tamil Nadu's Opposition Coalition

Venkataraman · South Asia · 6 min
Asia06 May

China Backs Iran: Beijing Labels US-Israel Military Campaign 'Illegitimate' as Diplomatic Rift with West Deepens

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

Trump's Rumored China Trip Tests the Limits of Prediction Markets as Diplomatic Signal

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia06 May

Iran's Foreign Minister Arrives in Beijing as Nuclear Talks Hang in Balance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia06 May

Trump Administration Suspends Strait of Hormuz Freedom Project, Drawing Mixed Regional Reactions

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia05 May

BJP Relocates 13 Taluka Panchayat Winners From Gujarat Border District

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia05 May

Delhi's Algorithmic Turn: Data, Policing, and the Student Who Drew the State's Ire

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia05 May

Japan's startup reckoning: What the harassment data reveals about its innovation ambitions

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia05 May

FIFA's Broadcast Gaps Are Excluding the World's Biggest Football Markets

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Japan and Philippines Open Talks on Surplus Destroyer Exports — the Biggest Step Yet in Their Security Partnership

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Indonesia's 5.61% Q1 Growth Masks a Deeper Conversation About Development Models

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Kaspersky Flags Supply Chain Backdoor in Daemon Tools; Thousands of Infection Attempts Detected

Venkataraman · global · 4 min
Asia05 May

Mamata Banerjee's Gambit: Bengal's Fractured Mandate and the Politics of Refusal

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

India's Supreme Court Demands Answers on Disability Rights — and a May 15 Deadline

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia05 May

India's Wedding Economy Redraws the Map: How Gold Fatigue and Manufacturing Innovation Signal a Structural Shift

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Japan's Energy Gambit: Tehran Tensions Push Tokyo Toward Russian Oil

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Seoul faces Hormuz reckoning as Trump pushes South Korea into a US-led Strait mission

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia05 May

Semeru Erupts Again: Nine Explosions in 24 Hours Test Indonesia's Disaster Architecture

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 6 min
Asia05 May

US Strikes Boats in Strait of Hormuz, Killing Five — Oil Prices Surge 5%

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia05 May

India's Operation Sindoor and the Technological Warfare Question

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia05 May

Twenty-One Dead in Liuyang Fireworks Factory Blast as Industrial Safety Questions Resurface

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia05 May

India's Energy Reckoning: Middle East Tensions Expose Gaps in LNG Infrastructure

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia05 May

Bessent's Hormuz Ultimatum: US Taps China as Co-Enforcer in Iran Standoff

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia04 May

Singapore's Power Ambitions Put Sarawak's Green Energy Vision in the Frame

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

China Deploys Legal Countermeasures as US Blacklist Expands

Venkataraman · asia · 7 min
Asia04 May

Reggie Fils-Aimé Explains Nintendo's Discount Reluctance

Venkataraman · global · 4 min
Asia04 May

Iran Strikes U.S. Forces and Commercial Vessels in Strait of Hormuz Escalation

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia04 May

Japan's twin signal: military alignment and economic hedging in the Indo-Pacific

Venkataraman · ASIA · 5 min
Asia04 May

Japan quietly rewrites the rules of Indo-Pacific security architecture

Venkataraman · ASIA · 6 min
Asia04 May

Vietnam's AI Talent War: Beyond the Paycheck

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

Liuyang fireworks blast exposes China's industrial safety fault lines as Middle East tensions spike simultaneously

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia04 May

Bessent Calls on China to Join US Reopening Mission for Strait of Hormuz

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia04 May

Macron's Wake-Up Call: Europe Reckons With Its China Dependencies

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia04 May

US Transfers 22 Crew Members of Seized Iranian Vessel to Pakistan

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia04 May

South Korea's Margin Loan Boom Tests Market Vigilance as Retail Fever Spreads

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

Iran war shock drives Asian capital pivot toward local currencies and Hong Kong listings

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia04 May

Iran Rules Out Uranium Talks as US Seizure of Tanker Complicates Nuclear Diplomacy

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

Iran and Pakistan Hold Diplomatic Consultation as Regional Architecture Shifts

Venkataraman · south-asia,middle-east · 4 min
Asia04 May

Pet Boom, Bathhouse Bust: Japan's Diverging Quality-of-Life Economies

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

Iranian Tanker Crew Transferred to Pakistan Following US Seizure of Vessel Near Gulf

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

US Navy Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Off Oman Amid Blockade Tensions

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 4 min
Asia04 May

Vietnam's AI Talent Crunch: When Money Isn't Enough

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia04 May

Beijing's Sanctions Repudiation: China Tells Refiners to Bypass US Iran Oil Restrictions

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

Will Hormuz Crisis Push Asia Toward Deeper Oil Reserve Cooperation?

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

Iran Confirms Receiving US Response to 14-Point Peace Proposal Via Pakistan

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia03 May

Iran Proposes Diplomatic Pathway Via Pakistan as Israeli Officials Warn of Imminent Retaliation

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia03 May

Mayon Volcano Erupts in Philippines, Tens of Thousands Evacuated

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

India's Press Freedom Ranking Drops Below Nepal and Pakistan Ahead of Crucial BJP Electoral Test

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia03 May

China Quietly Orders Domestic Refiners to Halt Iranian Oil Purchases

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia03 May

China Defies US Sanctions on Iranian Oil as Trump Declares Naval Blockade "Friendly"

Venkataraman · Asia / Middle East · 6 min
Asia03 May

Iran Realigns Gulf Transit Through Pakistan as UAE's Commercial Edge Erodes

Venkataraman · south-asia|middle-east · 6 min
Asia03 May

Beijing Tightens the Screws on Iranian Oil Purchases, Sources Say

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia03 May

Japan's Constitutional Peace Values Face Fresh Scrutiny as 50,000 Take to Tokyo Streets

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

China Orders Companies to Disregard U.S. Iran Oil Sanctions in Direct Challenge to Washington

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

Turkish Agri-Drone Maker Bets on Western China Anxiety to Crack Crop-Spraying Market

Venkataraman · turkey|china|eu · 5 min
Asia03 May

The Credit Score as Lifeline: How India's Educated Unemployed Turned Financial Infrastructure Into a Survival Tool

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

Pakistan's Military Shift Eastward: What Asim Munir's Quiet Front Comment Reveals About South Asian Deterrence

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia03 May

This Is Not AI: The Quiet Disclaimers Entering Geopolitical Discourse

Venkataraman · global · 4 min
Asia03 May

Beijing Orders State Entities to Ignore US Sanctions on Five Companies

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

China's Tehran Gambit: Beijing Declares It Will Ignore U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil

Venkataraman · Asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

China's Merchandise Diplomacy: Toilet Brushes Featuring Western Leaders Expose the Absurdity of Sanctions

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia02 May

Indian LNG Tanker Passes Through Strait of Hormuz Amid Continued Regional Transit Tensions

Venkataraman · south-asia-middle-east · 4 min
Asia02 May

Sri Lanka Detains Monks Carrying 112 kg of Marijuana in Thailand-Axis Seizure

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

Beijing's clean air turnaround: what two decades of policy actually look like

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia02 May

Trump's Iran War Hits Iraq-Vietnam Threshold of Disapproval as Military Pressure Fails to Deliver Leverage

Venkataraman · middle-east · 6 min
Asia02 May

Iran Orders 70% Electricity Cut for Government Departments as Summer Demand Strains Grid

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia02 May

Japan's Russian Oil Purchase Signals Shifting Energy Calculus in Asia

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia02 May

Families Question Bridge Safety Protocols as J&K Death Toll Rises, While India Bolsters Energy and Emergency Infrastructure

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia02 May

China's Rail Surge and the Cyber Reckoning: Two Signals, One Trajectory

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia02 May

India's Oscars Selection Under Scrutiny as New Academy Rules Threaten Traditional Process

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia02 May

Air India Pilot's Cardiac Death After Medical Clearance Raises Aviation Screening Questions

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia02 May

India's Energy Calculus: Oil Shocks, Fuel Subsidies, and the Limits of Western Patronage

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

As Dhaka and Delhi Restore Visa Links, a Delhi Court Probes Dogs Gone Missing at India's Busiest Airport

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

Toyama's Blackest Export: Japan Ramen Diplomacy Arrives in Laos

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia02 May

Epic Games Opens Japan's iPhone App Store — and No Japanese Games Follow

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia01 May

Beijing Formalises Objection to US Telecom Restrictions as Technology Decoupling Accelerates

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia30 Apr

Four killed as Pakistan fires mortars into Afghanistan, Taliban says

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia30 Apr

Raghav Chadha's BJP Switch Exposes AAP's Structural Strains

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia30 Apr

New Delhi Sends a Politician to Dhaka: What Dinesh Trivedi's Appointment Signals for India-Bangladesh Ties

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia30 Apr

Google's Seoul AI Campus and the Infrastructure Race Reshaping Asia's Tech Map

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia30 Apr

China decries US sanctions on Hengli refinery as oil refiner's shares plunge

Venkataraman · east-asia · 3 min
Asia30 Apr

Samsung's China Exit Signals a Reordering of Global Manufacturing Geographies

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia30 Apr

Trump Convenes National Security Team as Iran Nuclear Diplomacy Stalls

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia30 Apr

China's Asset-Risk Warning to Companies Rethinking Supply Chains

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia29 Apr

UAE Demands Immediate $3.5 Billion Loan Repayment From Pakistan

Venkataraman · South Asia / Gulf · 4 min
Asia29 Apr

Thailand's Hormuz Gambit: A Sovereignty Signal From Southeast Asia

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia29 Apr

Pakistan Resumes Airstrikes on Afghanistan After Extended Pause

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia29 Apr

Beijing's Drone Ban Reveals the Limits of China's Own Security Logic

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia29 Apr

Tokyo Condo Flip Frenzy Falters as Rate Rise Bites

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia29 Apr

Visual investigation traces Ukrainian child to North Korea as 'Russian representative'

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia29 Apr

Vietnam Tungsten Miners Catch the Wave as Beijing Tightens the Screws on Export Controls

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia29 Apr

Sri Lanka Probes $2.5 Million Cyber Heist Targeting Australia Debt Payment

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia29 Apr

Daiwa Securities Acquires Orix Bank in $2.3bn Deal Accelerating Japanese Banking Consolidation

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia29 Apr

Oil Rises as US-Iran Talks Collapse, Trump Convenes Security Meeting

Venkataraman · Middle East · 3 min
Asia29 Apr

RFK Jr. Says China Is 'Eating America's Lunch' on Drug Development — Here's What's Behind the Claim

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Apr

India's Fuel Price Problem Demands a Rules-Based Framework

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia27 Apr

Tokyo's Condo Flip Economy Faces Reckoning as Rates Bite

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia27 Apr

India's $1.35 Billion Question: What Now for Chabahar Port?

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia27 Apr

Oil Markets Jitter as US-Iran Nuclear Diplomacy Hits the Wall

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia27 Apr

Taiwan Defense Minister Shrugs Off Chinese Sanctions on European Arms Firms

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia27 Apr

Iranian Foreign Minister Touches Down in Moscow for Putin Talks

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia27 Apr

Iran's Top Diplomat Arrives in Moscow as Sanctions Axis Deepens

Venkataraman · central-asia · 5 min
Asia27 Apr

Trump Scraps Pakistan Trip for Iran Talks — and Graham Cheered

Venkataraman · south-asia,middle-east,united-states · 5 min
Asia26 Apr

Russia's Top Lawmaker Lands in Pyongyang as North Korea Reaffirms Kursk Support

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia26 Apr

Trump Claims 'Major Victory' Imminent as US-Iran Confrontation Enters Critical Phase

Venkataraman · Middle East · 3 min
Asia26 Apr

Pakistan Steers Transit Routes Around Sanctions Pressure as Iran Trade Corridor Shifts

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia26 Apr

Pakistan Lifts Islamabad Restrictions as Iran-US Nuclear Diplomacy Stalls

Venkataraman · South Asia / Middle East · 7 min
Asia26 Apr

Trump Tells NATO to Choose Sides on Iran — and Gets a Polite No

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia26 Apr

Beijing's Strategic Gambit: Energy Shock, Investment Barriers, and the New Geopolitics of Clean Tech

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia26 Apr

Iran Draws Red Lines in Pakistan as US Ceasefire Talks Remain Deadlocked

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia26 Apr

Trump Organization's Pentagon Revenue Denied Amid $24 Million Report

Venkataraman · americas · 5 min
Asia26 Apr

Iran's Araghchi wraps Pakistan visit with Oman diplomacy push

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia26 Apr

The Nuclear Question Returns to East Asia

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia26 Apr

Swiss Air Engine Fire at Delhi: Six Injured as Takeoff Aborted

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia26 Apr

Iran's Araghchi completes 'very fruitful' Pakistan visit, sets course for Moscow

Venkataraman · middle-east · 3 min
Asia26 Apr

Iran's Naval Mine Strategy and the Strait of Hormuz: Between Military Logic and Energy Risk

Venkataraman · mena · 4 min
Asia25 Apr

Iran Rules Out Pressure-Driven Nuclear Talks, Warns Washington From Islamabad

Venkataraman · Middle East · 5 min
Asia25 Apr

Middle East Escalation Reaches Pakistan's Power Grid

Venkataraman · South Asia · 6 min
Asia25 Apr

Iran's Pezeshkian warns Pakistan's Sharif that US military buildup undermines diplomatic pathway

Venkataraman · south_asia · 5 min
Asia25 Apr

Trump Cancels Pakistan Envoy Trip as Iran Diplomacy Veers Between Hawkish Posturing and Back-Channel Whisper

Venkataraman · Middle East · 6 min
Asia25 Apr

Trump Cancels Pakistan Peace Talks, Reversing 24-Hour-Old Iran Outreach

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

White House Alleges China Conducted Large-Scale Theft of U.S. AI Technology

Venkataraman · americas | asia · 6 min
Asia23 Apr

Beijing's Dual Gambit: Industrial Ambition Meets the AI IP Fight

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia23 Apr

Trump's AI-Girl Post and Iran's Defiant Reply: How a Social Media Stunt Upended the Nuclear Talks

Venkataraman · MENA · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

EU Unpacks 20th Russia Sanctions Package With Shadow Fleet Crackdown and €90B Ukraine Loan

Venkataraman · europe · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

Malaysia's Durian Glut Meets Iran's War: How Geopolitical Shocks Are Crushing Smallholders

Venkataraman · southeast-asia · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

Pakistan's Diplomatic Gambit Amid Hormuz Standoff

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

ICC commits Rodrigo Duterte to trial for alleged crimes against humanity

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

Nikkei Crosses 60,000 for First Time as Japan's Manufacturing Revival Reshapes Asia Trade Calculus

Venkataraman · east-asia · 3 min
Asia23 Apr

Manila pivots: Philippine central bank reverses course as economy slows

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

Southeast Asia Counts the Cost: Oil Shocks and Migrant Flight as Iran War Reshapes ASEAN

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

South Korea Rebounds as Honda Exits, Highlighting Tech-Led Economic Pivot

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia23 Apr

US Export Controls on AI Chips Face a Paradox as China's Tech Trade Hits Record $234 Billion

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

Iran War Divides Asian Exporters as China Solar Exports Hit Record

Venkataraman · Asia · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

Strait of Hormuz Attacks Leave India's Exporters Caught Between War Premiums and Buyer Resistance

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia23 Apr

China's Chip Surge and Uzbekistan's Crypto Zone: The Infrastructure of a Multipolar Economic Order

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia23 Apr

Ravindra Jadeja's all-round display sinks Lucknow Super Giants as IPL playoff picture sharpens

Venkataraman · South Asia · 2 min
Asia22 Apr

BYD's Brazil Labor Saga Exposes the Growing Pains of Chinese Industrial Ambitions

Venkataraman · americas · 4 min
Asia22 Apr

Beijing Signals Energy Leverage as U.S. Commander Pressures Taiwan on Defense Spending

Venkataraman · asia · 3 min
Asia22 Apr

India's Rate Pause: The Iran Variable in a Central Bank's Calculus

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Trump sets April 25 deadline for Iran ceasefire proposal as Pakistan brokers extension

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia22 Apr

China's Dual-Track Industrial Ambition: Space Partners, Lidar Economics, and the US$14 Trillion Manufacturing Fix

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia22 Apr

Brazil raid on BYD factory exposes a contradiction Beijing cannot afford to ignore

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Iran-Sri Lanka Call Spotlights Global South Diplomatic Realignment

Venkataraman · south-asia, middle-east, global-south · 4 min
Asia22 Apr

Farion murder trial: accused attempts suicide during hearing in Kropyvnytskyi

Venkataraman · europe · 4 min
Asia22 Apr

Samsung's Dual Front: Labor Unrest and the AI Television Race Against Chinese Rivals

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Sanctions on Paper, Deals in Practice: Asia's Scramble for Iranian Oil Exposes US Diplomatic Contradictions

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia22 Apr

Trump extends Iran ceasefire as Asia's oil appetite deepens sanctions rifts

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

CATL's New Chemistry Reshapes the EV Race — and Tests Western Industrial Strategy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia22 Apr

Samsung's AI Gamble: Outsmarting Chinese Rivals in the Living Room

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire at Pakistan's Request, Keep Blockade

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Trump's China Gambit: Iran Ceasefire Clouds a May Diplomatic Gambit

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Trump Declares Victory Over Iran as Ceasefire Ends and Debris Remains

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Samsung Bets AI Can Protect Its TV Crown as Chinese Rivals Climb the Value Chain

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia22 Apr

Tehran Calls Ceasefire Extension 'Meaningless' as Trump Claims Iran Nuclear Sites Are Rubble

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Trump's Vietnam Comment Returns as Iran, Markets Read Washington's Strategic Recalculation

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Vance's Pakistan Trip Scrapped: What the Iran Talks Cancellation Signals for US Diplomatic Leverage

Venkataraman · South Asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Iran Leaves Door Open to Talks but Demands US Drop 'Pressure and Threats'

Venkataraman · middle-east · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Trump's Dual Signal on Iran: Sanctions Escalate as Peace Talk Optimism Persists

Venkataraman · united-states-iran · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Iran's Diplomatic Caution: No Final Decision on Pakistan Ceasefire Talks

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

Beijing's Energy Gambit: Coal Conversion and Fuel Subsidies in the Shadow of Middle East War

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Iran Ceasefire Deadline Puts Trump Diplomatic Calendar Under Pressure

Venkataraman · Asia / Middle East / United States · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

Trump's Victory Declarations Collide With the Hard Terrain of Diplomacy

Venkataraman · south-central-asia · 6 min
Asia21 Apr

Seoul's Intelligence Disclosure Rattles a Delicate US Alliance

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

Asian Markets Diverged This Week — And the Gap Tells a Story

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

US Restricts Intelligence Sharing With South Korea After Minister Disclosed Suspected Nuclear Site

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

China Positions Itself as Middle East Peacemaker While Condemning US Interdiction of Iranian Vessel

Venkataraman · asia · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

India's Monsoon Jitters and the Industrial Park Gambit

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia21 Apr

Putin's Shadow Logic: What the Russia–North Korea Diplomatic Rush Tells Us

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Seoul's Balancing Act: Market Highs and Nuclear Revelations in the Same 48 Hours

Venkataraman · east-asia · 4 min
Asia21 Apr

US and Iran Trade War Threats While Pakistan Mediation Talks Hang in the Balance

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Both Sides Say They're Ready for War. The Diplomatic Door Is Still Open.

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia21 Apr

Iran's Hormuz gambit: one ship, a collapsed corridor, and the five-day crisis laying bare chokepoint fragility

Venkataraman · middleeast · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

Pakistan Hosts US-Iran Talks as Regional Diplomatic Arena Shifts

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran Demands Vance's Physical Presence Before Pakistan Talks Proceed

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran Sends Negotiating Team to Pakistan as Vance-Led US Delegation Arrives

Venkataraman · Middle East · 6 min
Asia20 Apr

JD Vance Lands in Pakistan as Iran Sends Negotiating Team for Second Round of Talks

Venkataraman · south-asia-middle-east · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

India's New Digital Rules Reshape Creator Economy as Platform Governance Battles Intensify

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

Diplomatic Static: Conflicting Signals Cloud US-Iran Islamabad Talks

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

Japan Issues Tsunami Warning After Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake, Braces for Potential Second Quake

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran, Pakistan Diplomatic Channel Stays Active as Araghchi Speaks With Pakistani Counterpart for Second Consecutive Day

Venkataraman · south-asia, middle-east · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran Warns US Over Strait of Hormuz, Signals Talks Are Stalled

Venkataraman · middle-east · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

LayerZero Links $290M KelpDAO Hack to North Korea's Lazarus Group

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

How a Chinese Property Deal Sank a Japanese Mayor — and Revealed Deeper Fault Lines in Local Governance

Venkataraman · east-asia · 6 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran Declares Pakistan Sole Diplomatic Mediator as US Talks Stalls

Venkataraman · Middle East · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

Iran war fallout reshapes South Asian industry as EV demand rises and rubber costs spike

Venkataraman · south-asia · 6 min
Asia20 Apr

India's Content Regulation Tightening Puts Creator Economy on Uncertain Ground

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia20 Apr

Noida Labor Unrest Puts India's Semiconductor Ambitions to the Test

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

India's Semiconductor Gambit: Can Policy Fill a Decades-Old Infrastructure Gap?

Venkataraman · South Asia · 4 min
Asia20 Apr

Japan's Gen Z Is Quietly Dismantling the Corporate Culture That Built Its Economy

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

A Death on a Road in Haldwani and the Anatomy of a Town Ablaze

Venkataraman · south-asia · 3 min
Asia19 Apr

Iran and Pakistan Diplomatic Contact Signals Ceasefire Pressure as Regional Tensions Hold

Venkataraman · south-asia · 4 min
Asia19 Apr

U.S. Destroyer Fires on Iranian Cargo Ship in Gulf of Oman Standoff

Venkataraman · middle-east · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

Iranian Envoy to Pakistan Warns Naval Blockade Fuels Deterrence Standoff

Venkataraman · south-central-asia · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

Pakistan and Iran Hold Diplomatic Talks as Regional Tensions Mount

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

Israeli Cabinet Convenes as Iran Nuclear Talks Hit Crossroads

Venkataraman · mena · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

Vance in Islamabad: What the White House Situation Room Talks Reveal About America's South Asia Reset

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

White House Confirms Vance Will Attend Iran Talks in Pakistan, Reversing Earlier Denial

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

Iran-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Hold Talks Amid Regional Realignment

Venkataraman · south-asia-middle-east · 4 min
Asia19 Apr

Trump Threatens to "Blow Up" Iran if Deal Not Signed, US Delegation Heads to Islamabad for Talks

Venkataraman · asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

How a Bindis-and-Tilak Controversy Exposed the Limits of Corporate Secularism in India

Venkataraman · south-asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

Pakistan Walks a Diplomatic Tightrope Between Washington and Tehran

Venkataraman · asia · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

Japan's Retail Investors Are Testing the Limits of Corporate Japan

Venkataraman · east-asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

Hormuz Escalation Exposes the Myth of Safe Passage in Contested Waters

Venkataraman · Middle East / South Asia · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

Iran's Judiciary Chief Flags Unprecedented 50-Day Mobilisation As Tehran Navigates Internal Pressure

Venkataraman · MENA · 4 min
Asia19 Apr

The Robot That Finished: Beijing's Marathon and the Automation Precipice

Venkataraman · East Asia · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

Strait of Hormuz Tensions Expose India's Structural Energy Vulnerability

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia19 Apr

India's Hormuz Exposure: Naval Distress Calls and the Structural Vulnerability of a Gulf Middle Power

Venkataraman · South Asia / Gulf · 5 min
Asia19 Apr

North Korea's Seventh Missile Test of 2026 Exposes Double Standard in Western Military Coverage

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia18 Apr

The Mekong's Monetary Breakout: Southeast Asia's CBDC Race Is a Sovereignty Project, Not a Tech Story

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 7 min
Asia18 Apr

Islamabad's Three-Front Trap: CPEC, TTP, and the India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Triangle That No One Wants to Defuse

Venkataraman · South Asia · 7 min
Asia18 Apr

The Sanmar Herald and the Limits of Non-Alignment: India's Tanker Problem Has No Clean Answer

Venkataraman · South Asia · 8 min
Asia18 Apr

The Islamabad Variable: How Pakistan Became a Quiet Hinge in the Iran Ceasefire Equation

Venkataraman · South Asia · 8 min
Asia18 Apr

North Korea's Missile Test Is Beijing's Flare Gun: What the DPRK Launch Signals About China's Korea Calculus

Venkataraman · Korean Peninsula · 7 min
Asia18 Apr

Hormuz Closed, Asia Exposed: Why Japan, South Korea, and China Are the Real Hostages in the US-Iran Standoff

Venkataraman · Asia-Pacific · 8 min
Asia18 Apr

Lenient Justice: Why the DOJ's $5 Million North Korea IT Worker Sentencing Reveals More About Washington Than Pyongyang

Venkataraman · Asia-Pacific · 5 min
Asia18 Apr

Iran Parliament Speaker Qalibaf: U.S. Proposals Studied Only on Day 36 of War, No Trust in Enemy

Venkataraman · Middle East · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

The Beer-Breaking Monk: When Thai Monastic Discipline Meets Consumer Capitalism

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 5 min
Asia18 Apr

Iran's Day 36 Doctrine: How Tehran Weaponized Diplomatic Silence Against American Pressure

Venkataraman · Middle East · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

Tokyo on Alert: What North Korea's April 18 Launch Tells Us About Japan's Deterrence Dilemma

Venkataraman · East Asia · 8 min
Asia18 Apr

ASEAN's Impossible Pivot: How the US-China Tariff War Is Forcing Southeast Asia to Choose

Venkataraman · Southeast Asia · 7 min
Asia18 Apr

Drawings of Death: How Iran's Child Victims Expose the Selective Humanity of Western Media

Venkataraman · South Asia / Middle East · 4 min
Asia18 Apr

DPRK Missile Launch Tests Regional Patience as U.S.-Led Containment Narrative Collides With Multipolar Reality

Venkataraman · East Asia · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

Pyongyang's Easterly Shot: What the Missile Test Reveals About Washington's Regional Calculus

Venkataraman · East Asia · 5 min
Asia18 Apr

North Korea's Missile Test Exposes the Selective Outrage of Western Security Theater

Venkataraman · East Asia · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

North Korea's Easterly Missile Test Exposes Fragile Southeast Asian Deterrence Architecture

Venkataraman · East Asia · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

Singapore Gulf Bank's 24/7 Stablecoin Bet: Gulf Finance's Quiet Revolution

Venkataraman · Asia · 6 min
Asia18 Apr

The Ocean India Did Not Plan to Lead: How the IOR Security Crisis Is Making New Delhi's Swing-Power Gamble Visible

Venkataraman · Indian Ocean · 7 min