Chinese President Xi Jinping will kick off a five-day, three-nation South-east Asia tour on Monday (Apr 14) as Beijing seeks to tighten regional trade ties and offset the impact of huge tariffs ...

COLOMBO -- The Sri Lankan navy has seized over 100 kg of heroin and crystal methamphetamine from a fishing trawler during an operation off the country's western coast, the navy said on Saturday.

South-east Asia PE deal value hit US$15 billion in 2024, up from US$9 billion the year before, led by large transactions such as that of ST Telemedia Data Centres. That growth in deal value was, ...

BANGKOK/HANOI/JAKARTA -- Prices in Southeast Asian rice markets are plunging because of oversupply after India resumed exports of the staple grain. White rice export prices in Thailand were $412 a ...

Mr Donald Trump’s return to the White House is reshaping America and the world. The swift reimposition of tariffs, including on key Asian economies, signals that the United States has radically ...

YANGON -- The fifth batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government arrived at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Wednesday. The aid supplies include 266 ...

The rest of Asia, in particular, plays this role. Here, East and Southeast Asia combine alongside China to create a broad “Factory Asia.” South Asia plays a different role. South Asian ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Young people in South-east Asia are moving away from smoking cigarettes and towards vaping and heated tobacco products (HTPs) instead, a survey has found. Across Singapore ...

BANGKOK/HANOI/JAKARTA -- The new "reciprocal" tariffs imposed globally by U.S. President Donald Trump are fueling concern that higher costs will squeeze businesses in Southeast Asia that have ...

John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics ... newsweek.com Newsweek has created a map showing the current travel ...

The deceleration phases, as the slowing is called, have tended to amplify north-south tectonic stresses in East Asia, causing megaquakes in the Pamir-Baikal belt. Acceleration phases, on the other ...

Donald Trump's imposition of a tariff wall around the US economy is a major blow to global economic integration, as the United States moves towards economic decoupling from the Asia-Pacific region ...