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Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak, seen here with his wife Rosmah Mansor, has been accused of pilfering a vast sum from the 1MDB development fund before his shock poll defeat in May. Photo: Reuters/ Athit Perawongmetha

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Thailand, World

Corruption, throughout history and every country

by Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada September 16, 2018February 18, 2020

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 15, 2018. Photo: AFP / Abbas Momani

Egypt, Israel, Middle East, World

Trump’s self-defeating Palestine policy

by Daoud Kuttab September 15, 2018

Will 'automatic' tribunals that uses predictive justice fundamentally question the future of justice? Photo; iStock

European Union, France, World

If predictive justice is coming, legal geeks must multiply

by Nathalie Devillier September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Changhua County Police Department, Taiwan. Photo: Google Maps

AT Finance, Middle East, Vietnam

Man wielding gun and knives held for harassing ex-girlfriend

by Asia Times staff September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

A Cambodian woman holds riel bank notes. Photo: AFP Forum

AT Finance, Cambodia, Middle East, South Asia, Thailand, World

To be down, out and in debt in Cambodia

by David Hutt September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

A file photo of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge during its construction. Photo: Xinhua

AT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, World

Mangkhut could threaten HK-Macau mega bridge

by Asia Times staff September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Officials from North and South Korea attend the opening ceremony of the inter-Korean governmental liaison office in Kaesong, North Korea, on Friday. Photo; Joint Press Corps/Ministry of Unification

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Two Koreas set up joint office in Northern city

by Andrew Salmon September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Giselle by La Scala with Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko. Photo: La Scala Theatre Ballet Company

China, Hong Kong, Italy, Macau, Shanghai, Tianjin, World

Scala Theatre Ballet’s version of Giselle wins loud acclaim

by Kevin Ng September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Australia's outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gestures at a press conference after a party meeting in Canberra on August 24, 2018.
Scott Morrison was installed as Australia's seventh prime minister in 11 years on August 24 after a stunning Liberal party revolt instigated by hardline conservatives unseated moderate Malcolm Turnbull. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN

AT Finance, Australia, Israel, Middle East, Oceania, Singapore

Turnbull bites back as Morrison’s coalition totters

by Alan Boyd September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters/Joseph Campbell

Beijing, China, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, World

US sanctions Russian, Chinese firms for alleged North Korea links

by Asia Times staff September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

President Putin greets an unidentified Chinese soldier as he reviews troops during the Vostok-2018 military drills at Tsugol training ground in Russia's far east on Sept 13, 2018. Photo: AFP/ Iliya Pitalev/ Sputnik

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, United Kingdom, World

$42 billion in deals reportedly signed at forum in Far East

by Andrew Salmon September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

The Beijing Sci-Tech Report will now accept bitcoin from subscribers. Image: iStock

Beijing, China, Shanghai, World

Arrest of OKEx exchange owner Star Xu ‘not crypto related’

by Pete Sabine September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Customers checking washlets in Shanghai. Photo: Weibo

Beijing, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Shanghai, World

Xi’s ‘toilet revolution’ sees boom in Japanese-style washlets

by Asia Times staff September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Map of China: iStock

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

After Syria’s partition, will Xinjiang be destabilized?

by Christina Lin September 13, 2018September 13, 2018

Bangladeshi police display confiscated narcotics in Dhaka. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP/Mehedi Hasan

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Middle East, South Asia, Thailand

A new drug creeps into Bangladesh’s narcotics scene

by Faisal Mahmud September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2018. Photo: AFP/Prakash Singh

AT Finance, India, Indonesia, Middle East, South Asia, Turkey, World

Modi takes election year gamble on prices of fuel, cooking gas

by Madhavan Narayanan September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Volunteers and rescue personnel evacuate local residents in an Indian Navy boat from a residential area in Aluva, Kerala, on August 17, 2018. Photo: AFP, Times of India/ RK Sreejith.

AT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Maldives, Mexico, Middle East, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Thailand, World

India should accept disaster assistance

by Shashi Tharoor September 13, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Photo: AFP / Alexander Vilf / Sputnik

China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, World

Putin wants Russia and Japan to seal historic peace deal

by Asia Times staff September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

One of the twelve children who have been stuck in Thailand cave for more than two weeks. Thai Navy Seals

AT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, World

The cave boys and statelessness in Asia

by Nicholas Leong September 12, 2018

Qatar-owned PSG released a statement announcing the crypto deal on Tuesday and, while it did not reveal the length of the agreement or how much money they will make from it, a source told AFP they expected it to be worth 'several million euros.' Photo: AFP

Middle East, World

Paris football giants to kick off their own crypto-currency

by Richard Cook September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

China's President Xi Jinping, second left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, making bliny [Russian pancakes] as they visit the Far East Street exhibition on the sidelines of the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Sept 11, 2018. Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office handout / Anadolu Agency

AT Finance, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Shanghai, South Asia, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, World

Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East

by Pepe Escobar September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

Smoke rises in the Syrian village of Kafr Ain in the southern countryside of Idlib province after an air strike on September 7. Photo: AFP/Anas al-Dyab

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Syria, Turkey, World

There’s at least one more ugly battle brewing in Syria

by Vijay Prashad September 12, 2018

Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures during a press conference at her residence in Islamabad after a meeting with Sharif in Attock jail, on December 9, 2000. Photo: AFP / Saeed Khan

Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Kulsoom Nawaz’ death leaves scar on face of the deep state

by Imad Zafar September 12, 2018

China's export drive to the United States is in full swing before tariffs kick in. Illustration: iStock

Beijing, China, World

US trade war could cost millions of jobs in China

by Asia Staff Times September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

Zhou Xiaochuan at the 10th Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai earlier this year. Photo: AFP

Beijing, China, Italy, World

Zhou warns of ‘Black Swan’ scenario as trade war rumbles on

by Gordon Watts September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Latika Chakravarty, 89, who makes beautiful bags from old fabrics and has become an online sensation. Photo: Supplied

Germany, India, Iran, Middle East, South Asia, World

The grandmother who turns old fabric into beautiful bags

by Chandni Doulatramani September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 11, 2018. Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office / Anadolu Agency

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, Germany, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

Putin’s big bang in the Russian Far East

by Andrew Salmon September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 20, 2018. Photo: AFP/How Hwee Young

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Shanghai, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam

Chinese buyer beware in Mahathir’s Malaysia

by Nile Bowie September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Daniel Zhang Yong. Photo: Baidu

China, Shanghai, World

What Daniel Zhang did to make himself Jack Ma’s successor

by Ben Kwok September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Members of the upper-caste and Other Backward Class groups take part in a strike over a legislative amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act in Allahabad on Sept. 6, 2018. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia

Anger grows with ruling party over amendment to caste law

by Kanchan Srivastava September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

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