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Umi Sugiharti (left) holds her book Asmara Suatu Ketika. Photo: Bunda Umy / Facebook

AT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Middle East, Singapore, Taiwan

Indonesian maid to publish her third book of fiction

by Asia Times staff November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

Philippine soldiers stand guard in front of a door spray painted with "I love ISIS" graffiti after government troops cleared the area from pro-Islamic State militant groups inside the war-torn Marawi city, southern Philippines October 19, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco

AT Finance, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, Middle East, Philippines, South Asia, Syria

Islamic State lurks in Philippine shadows

by Bong S Sarmiento November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

Groucho Marx is no believer in Sanity Clause. Photo: Fanpop

European Union, Germany, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

You canna fool me – there ain’t-a no Phillipy-Curve

by David P. Goldman November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, World

The Rohingya crisis
in black and white

by Greg Constantine November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

China

China Digest for Tuesday, 7 November 2017

by Liu Hsiu Wen November 7, 2017

China, Hong Kong

Gelonghui completes US$30.15mln in Series A financing

by Asia Times staff November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

US aircraft carrier US Nimitz was part of the Malabar naval exercise in July which included vessels from the Indian and Japanese navies The annual exercise in the Indian Ocean is seen as an ongoing effort to maintain security cooperation among the major democracies in south and east Asia.Photo: AFP/US Navy/Cole Schroeder

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Renewed Asia alliance works to curb China’s regional ambitions

by Brahma Chellaney November 7, 2017

Rai stone currency on the island of Yap, Micronesia. Photo: iStock

World

From stones to bitcoins: society’s monetary yardsticks

by Reuven Brenner November 7, 2017November 7, 2017

A satellite mage of the Punggyeri Nuclear Test Site. Photo: Reuters

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

North Korea nuke test site contaminated, now ‘wasteland’: Report

by Asia Times staff November 7, 2017February 18, 2020

A man passes the New York Stock Exchange. Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid

China, European Union, France, Germany, Shanghai, World

Asian stocks flat, Europe slumps to start week

by Asia Times staff November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: iStock

AT Finance, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

Mr Trump goes to China

by Richard N. Haass November 6, 2017

Australia, Beijing, China, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, World

The Daily Brief for Monday, 6 November 2017

by Paul Muir November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. Photo: AFP

Egypt, Jordan, Middle East, Syria, World

The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

by Pepe Escobar November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

China's test fires a Long March 5 carrier rocket earlier this year. Soon it will launch its first reusable rocket. Photo: AFP

China aims to slash costs by half with its reusable rockets

by Asia Times staff November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

Nato flag. Photo: iStock

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, France, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Military alliance looks to the Far East

by Emanuele Scimia November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

Robert Lawrence Kuhn introducing Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2014.

Australia, Beijing, China, India, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Beijing wary of Japan, US, India strategic cooperation: Kuhn

by Doug Tsuruoka Editor at Large November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: iStock / Getty

AT Finance, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, World

China Development Bank offers Russia transit-route financing

by Olesya Kuvatova November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

Philippine fishermen steer a dinghy during sunset in the disputed Scarborough Shoal. Photo: Reuters / Erik De Castro

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Egypt, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, World

Asia’s troubles: Trump’s inheritance, not his doing

by Grant Newsham November 6, 2017

Paraphernalia for injecting drugs is seen in Huntington, West Virginia, on April 17, 2017.
The city has been portrayed as the epicenter of America's opioid crisis. On August 15, 2016, from 3pm to 9pm, 28 people in the city overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl.
Photo: AFP / Brendan Smialowski

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Fentanyl trail leads to Beijing in Trump’s war on drugs

by Peter J. Brown November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters via China Daily

China, Shanghai, World

First-line regulation top priority for stock exchanges: Wu Qing

by Asia Times staff November 6, 2017February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump are welcomed by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe with a dinner at Ginza Ukai Tei in Tokyo on November 5, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Jonathan Ernst

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Italy, Japan, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam, World

Trump will highlight ‘horrible’ trade deals on Asian tour

by Reuters November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

Bitcoin is only the best known of the many digital currencies vying for attention. Photo: Reuters / Benoit Tessier / Illustration

AT Finance, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam, World

Asia’s role in the digital currency revolution

by Martin J. Young November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

The lawsuit alleges the institution discriminates against Asian American students under a racial quota that unfairly limits the number of Asians admitted to the school annually. Photo: iStock

World

‘Diversity’ hides racial balancing: Asian American students

by Doug Tsuruoka Editor at Large November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

Harvard student Thang Diep: A majority of Harvard’s incoming class in 2017 is non-white for the first time in its nearly four centuries as an institution of higher learning. Photo: Thang Diep

AT Finance, Cambodia, Middle East, Philippines, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Harvard student’s story offers window on ‘diversity’ in US college admissions

by Doug Tsuruoka Editor at Large November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump gives a joint statement with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2017. Photo: AFP / Jim Watson

Beijing, China, Iran, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, World

South Korea’s Trump-Xi balancing act

by William Pesek November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

A woman breastfeeding her child in Indore. Photo: Rohit Jain

India, Iran, Middle East, South Asia, World

Burdens of child brides spurs a stampede for sterilization

by Rohit Jain November 5, 2017February 18, 2020

Hydraulic fracturing of shale gas — creating the so-called shale boom — has propelled the United States from energy importer to energy exporter, enhancing America's soft power and impacting global geopolitcs.Illustration:: iStock

European Union, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, World

Shale energy helps rewrite the global geopolitical playbook

by Joseph S. Nye November 5, 2017

A handout picture taken on October 23, 2010 shows a part of the reservoir of the Nam Theun 2 hydropower station in the Lao central province of Khammouane. Photo: AFP/Nam Theun Power Company

AT Finance, Australia, China, European Union, India, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Oceania, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

World Bank fallacy of kinder, gentler dams

by Tom Fawthrop November 4, 2017February 18, 2020

Former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves US Federal Court after being arraigned on twelve federal charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election in Washington October 30, 2017. Photo: Reuters/James Lawler Duggan

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, World

Could Manafort-Russia probe look to Indonesia?

by John McBeth November 4, 2017February 18, 2020

A coal fired electric generation plant in China. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

AT Finance, Australia, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oceania, Philippines, Russia, South Asia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

Carbon cloud hangs heavy over India, Southeast Asia

by Alan Boyd November 4, 2017February 18, 2020