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The Dubai Courts. Photo: Dubai government

AT Finance, India, Middle East, Philippines, South Asia

Man accused of groping young Filipina cleaner in Dubai

by Asia Times staff January 29, 2018February 18, 2020

Iranian Americans in Ali Khamenei (left) and Hasan Rouhani masks rally against the regime near the United Nations building in New York on September 20, 2016. Photo: AFP / Don Emmert

India, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, Syria, World

Unrest in Iran will continue until religious rule ends

by Haidar Khezri January 27, 2018February 18, 2020

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (L) listens to Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly (2-L) with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (2-R) and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters/Frank Robichon

China, France, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Japan and France plan joint naval exercises in ‘show of strength’ against China: Sources

by Asia Times staff January 27, 2018February 18, 2020

There has been talk that Uber may merge with Ola in India. Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu

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Will Softbank control over Uber lead to merger with Ola?

by Asia Times staff January 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Untreated phosphate dropped at the end of a conveyor belt at the Marca factory of the National Moroccan phosphates company (OCP public), near Laayoune, the capital of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in a 2013 file photo. Photo: AFP/Fadel Senna

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Sahrawis and Kiwis in a fight over fertilizer

by John McBeth January 26, 2018February 18, 2020

A large quantity of cannabis resin; Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. Photo: Google Maps, HK Police

India, South Asia

Indian man arrested for alleged drug trafficking

by Asia Times staff January 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi shake hands ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Adnan Abidi

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Modi resets India’s foreign-policy priorities

by M.K. Bhadrakumar January 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Tekka Centre on Bukit Timah Road, Singapore. Photo: Google Maps

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‘Foreigners’ allegedly turning market into red-light district

by Asia Times staff January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Visitors sit in front of lucky wheels made by the Japanese company Sega Sammy Creation, at the Global Gaming Expo Asia in Macau, on April 19, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Tyrone Siu

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Three questions about Japan’s bet on casinos

by William Pesek January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Police constables brief each other when patrolling in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Photo: Xinhua

China, France, India, Russia, South Asia, World

China says it has never been safer, but not all agree

by Asia Times staff January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers drive a PAC-3 missile unit into place at Asaka base, north of Tokyo. Photo: Reuters / Issei Kato

Australia, China, India, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia, South Korea

Hurdles for Abe as he braces to tackle constitutional revision

by Peter J. Brown January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Members of the Rajput community protest against the release of the upcoming Bollywood movie 'Padmaavat' in Mumbai on January 12, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Danish Siddiqui

Bangladesh, European Union, India, Middle East, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

History remains elusive as India battles violence over fictional movie

by Mohan Guruswamy January 25, 2018

India test-fires its Agni-V ICBM on January 18. Photo: The Times of India via Indian Defence Ministry

Beijing, China, Guangzhou, India, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Shanghai, South Asia

Indian ICBM puts Beijing in range, may spur build-up in South Asia

by Asia Times staff January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Opening Plenary at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Denis Balibouse

India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Modi at Davos: his rhetoric differs from his actions

by M Shamsur Rabb Khan January 25, 2018

A map of the potential new East-West shipping route that would be opened by a potential Thai canal through the country's Kra isthmus. Image: Wikimedia

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A man, a plan, a canal…Thailand?

by Shawn W. Crispin January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Solar power station in Jiangsu province, China. Photo: iStock

China, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

China leads the way in photovoltaic capacity

by Asia Times staff January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

The new 2000 Indian rupee banknotes. Photo: Reuters/ Mukesh Gupta

India, South Asia, World

India’s richest 1% cornered 73% of wealth last year: Oxfam

by Asia Times staff January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Passengers are seen at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. Photo: Reuters

India, South Asia

Domestic flights carried 117 million in India last year

by Asia Times staff January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

A surface-to-surface Agni-5 missile is displayed at a parade in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters / B Mathur

Beijing, China, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

China wary of India’s strategic potential

by Manoj Joshi January 24, 2018

Rebel soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) manning rifles on a supply route from Laiza, a KIA-controlled stronghold in Myanmar's northern Kachin state on the border with China. Photo: AFP/Patrick Bodenham

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Spurned by West, Myanmar’s Kachin look to China

by Bertil Lintner January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

A file photo of a protest in Delhi against a decision by India’s Supreme Court in 2013 to criminalize homosexuality. Photo: PTI

India, Middle East, South Asia, World

Section 377 must go, but who will speak for the men raped in India?

by Shivam Vij January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Workers in a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh, with flame cutters breaking parts of a shipwreck. Photo: AFP

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Shipbreaking in Asia: profit at a price

by Alan Boyd January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

The curtain has gone up on the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos. Photo: Reuters / Denis Balibouse

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When it comes to Davos, it’s inequality, stupid

by Pepe Escobar January 24, 2018February 18, 2020

A man reads the morning newspaper at the largest second-hand book market in the world on College Street in Kolkata, India. Photo: iStock

France, India, South Asia, World

New Indian Readership Survey rings death knell for newspapers

by Raja Murthy January 23, 2018

Japan's solid-fuel rocket, Epsilon-3, launches at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Photo: Kyodo via Reuters

Beijing, China, India, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia

Can Japan’s Epsilon rocket be used as an ICBM?

by Doug Tsuruoka Editor at Large January 23, 2018February 18, 2020

CCTV footage shows Hindu Sangharsh Sena leader Vipan Sharma, 45, being shot dead in Amritsar on October 30, 2017. Photo: via YouTube

India, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Hindu right-wingers in Punjab seeking guns for protection

by AK Sharma @satsingh15 January 23, 2018February 18, 2020

The scars of an illegal practice. Organ donors show the scars left after selling their kidneys. Photos: Monir Moniruzzaman

Bangladesh, India, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Legal crackdown fails to stem sale of illegal organs

by Faisal Mahmud January 22, 2018February 18, 2020

'Bitcoin was the exclusive method of payment for the WannaCry ransomware attack that spread around the globe, causing billions of dollars in losses,' said US Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Japan turns to NATO for improving cyber-defense

by Emanuele Scimia January 22, 2018

President Trump and Melania visit the Forbidden City with China’s President Xi Jinping and China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan, on November 10, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Jonathan Ernst

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Can Trump’s America reverse worldwide disapproval?

by George Koo January 22, 2018February 18, 2020

Suspected militants and their recovered weapons are presented to the media by Pakistani paramilitary forces at a security compound in the Jamrud area of the Khyber Agency tribal area on March 3, 2017. Photo: AFP / Abdul Majeed

Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

The Pakistan conundrum

by Richard N. Haass January 21, 2018