The fate of actor Wang Xing prompted outrage in China after he disappeared and had to be saved from a Myanmar scam center. But Beijing may have ulterior motives for its anti-scamming crackdown.

From climate disasters to political upheavals, Asia faced significant challenges in 2024, leaving a complex legacy for the region. Whether it’s a turning point for collaboration or a deepening of ...

On January 21st, a day after his inauguration, his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, hosted a Quad foreign ministers’ meeting ...

Skittish Chinese consumers at home or abroad dragged down the Swatch Group: The Swiss company’s 2024 net income dropped 75 percent to 219 million Swiss francs, or $242 million at current exchange ...

Mandal also highlighted that the U.S. will likely block Chinese OEMs from entering its market, while Europe has imposed ...

In total, 205 rail construction projects broke ground in 2024, with a combined capital investment of almost $390bn ...

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies ...

On today’s briefing we talk about DeepSeek’s impact on travel, AirAsia Move’s new chairman, and Boeing’s sunny take on cloudy ...

The crude oil market is adapting quickly to the new sanctions against Russia's shadow fleet of tankers, albeit by creating ...

The US is endangering a globe-spanning trade and security pact from India to the Gulf and Israel to Europe which took years ...

Will the Trump administration try to break the so-called “axis of upheaval”?  The Russo-Ukrainian War has catalyzed the ...

Chapman Freeborn will mark over 20 years of operating in China this week, after opening its first offices in Beijing and Hong ...