Asia


Asia

China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar

It didn’t create the civil war. But it is playing both sides

Asia

The real reason Indians are lost

A dodgy address system means delays that cost billions of dollars a year

Asia

Can India create its own Ivy League?

The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad?

Leaders

Myanmar is a demonstration of Chinese hegemony in action

China is playing all sides in the country’s bloody civil war

Asia

Lee Jae-myung is South Korea’s next president

What will the left-winger mean for the country?

Asia

There is an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, America warns

Pete Hegseth says a war would be devastating for the world

Asia

China calls the shots in Myanmar’s civil war

To see how, follow an oil-and-gas pipeline through three conflict zones

Asia

Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better

Fewer Chinese are forced to come, but more workers are coming by choice

Asia

Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness

The Liberal-National coalition will be resurrected, but its prospects look grim

Asia

Can India be cool?

India must both promote and prepare for a surge in air-conditioners

Asia

Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat

Better infrastructure and higher incomes, but also greater segregation and discrimination

Asia

If India chokes less, it will fry more

Pollution may have shielded it from the worst of global warming. That will change