Economy

Foxconn is investing more in Taiwan (above) as well as India as it diversifies away from China.
Trade war

Apple supplier Foxconn to step up investments in India and Taiwan

Tech manufacturer redoubles diversification amid coronavirus pandemic and trade war

23 June 2020
U.S. President Trump speaks in the East Room at the White House.
International relations

US halts H-1B and other visas in blow to India and China talent

Trump bills new immigration ban as part of America-first recovery

23 June 2020
A woman from a slum shouts about scarcity of food supply in Mumbai on Apr. 14: India's lockdown has led to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.
Opinion

Lockdown shows up public face of India's gender inequality

Men can loiter on the streets but women find much less space available to them

23 June 2020
Taxes on petrol and diesel in India account for around 69% of the retail price, the highest in the world.
Opinion

Indian government stops consumers benefiting from cheap oil

New Delhi has not passed on reductions in crude price but in fact raised taxes

22 June 2020
India's soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint at Gagangeer on June 17: The first priority is avoiding military conflict.
Opinion

Worsening China-India clash would be bad move for both economies

Pair should put aside fatal border dispute and concentrate on mutual trade

22 June 2020
The official Delhi Corona app launched in early June has struggled to provide an accurate picture of hospital capacity during the pandemic. (Source photos by Reuters and Kiran Sharma)
Coronavirus

Indian app overestimates capital's medical capacity

New Delhi ten times more affected by coronavirus than outlying areas

21 June 2020
Migrant workers get on a bus to reach a railway station to board a train to their home state of Bihar in Ahmedabad on May 23: will they return in time to meet the rising labor demand?
Opinion

Labor shortage looms as India's migrant workers stay at home

Workforce faced grueling journey out of cities after COVID-19 lockdown

21 June 2020
A family wait outside a railway station in New Delhi on June 1: COVID-19 has laid bare the weakness of South Asia's economies.
Opinion

South Asia risks coronavirus lost decade

India and Pakistan's poor disease management will cost them dearly

17 June 2020
Workers at a dhaba during lockdown in Chandigarh, pictured on May 15: brisk streetside commerce has all but disappeared.
Opinion

Workers in Asia's informal economy need protecting now

Coronavirus shock should compel governments to bring them into formal sector

15 June 2020
Travelers wearing face masks are seen at Suvarnabhumi Airport. Thailand wants to create "travel corridors" or "travel bubbles" with certain countries, including China, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)
Economy

Thailand fights to revive reputation as top tourist destination

COVID-19 tracing measures and troubled Thai Airways' cloud tourism revival

15 June 2020
Locking down the country in March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unwittingly triggered acute unemployment and mass migration. "We will die poor," said one migrant who struggled to return home.
The Big Story

India's migrant exodus foreshadows an economic crisis

Modi's lockdown hit the poorest hard. His recovery plan may leave millions more behind

10 June 2020
India is easing its coronavirus lockdown by allowing certain facilities, including shopping malls and restaurants, to reopen in a bid to boost consumption in the hard hit economy. In this photo people are shown lining up outside a mall in Kolkata in March before the the lockdown began.
Coronavirus

India eases lockdown, opening restaurants and malls

Move comes amid worries it could cause coronavirus infections to jump further

8 June 2020
Rescue personnel help move flood victims to safer areas in the southern Indian state of Kerala in August 2019.
Opinion

Central banks must connect climate change and financial inclusion

Extreme weather can wash away people's livelihoods

5 June 2020
A student demonstrates how to wash hands during an awareness campaign about COVID-19 at a school in Chennai on Mar. 14: this simple instruction is impracticable for most of the 2.4 billion people who live in water-scarce areas.
Opinion

Coronavirus advice highlights Asia's terrible water scarcity

Hand-washing to prevent catching COVID-19 is impossible for billions

5 June 2020
Tata Motors now has all six of its Indian assembly plants operating again.
Automobiles

Indian automakers rev up factories and incentives to exit slump

Tata has all plants operating, but parts supply still shaky

5 June 2020
A swarm of desert locusts flies over a ranch near the town on Nanyuki in Laikipia county, Kenya, Feb. 21.
Natural disasters

India and Pakistan brace for worst locust attack in 27 years

Amid COVID-19, Modi vows to 'salvage our crops' as drones and helicopters readied

1 June 2020
A sales woman wearing a face shield and a mask arranges gold bangles at a jewelry showroom during an extended lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Kolkata, India.
Economy

India's GDP growth slows to 11-year low of 3.1% in Jan.-March

Asia's third largest economy braces for worst recession in seven decades

29 May 2020
Workers carry mattresses to set up a quarantine facility amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in Howrah, on the outskirts of Kolkata.
Business trends

How red tape could bury Asia's virus-stricken startups

Businesses across the region struggle to access financial assistance

28 May 2020
Repatriated overseas Filipino workers arrive at an airport after weeks of quarantine in Pasay City on May 26: they send home more than $35 billion annually.
Opinion

Coronavirus shock exposes Asian governments' addiction to remittances

Money which overseas workers send home has prevented needed reforms

28 May 2020
Modi's government has failed to address the problem of tax uncertainties that continue to haunt investors.
Opinion

India needs to change if it wants to lure manufacturing from China

Regulation has become more unattractive and unpredictable under Narendra Modi

27 May 2020
Pakistan has secured funding from China for a major hydropower joint venture in Kashmir, but the loan terms have not been revealed.  
Belt and Road

China ignores India over dam project in Pakistani Kashmir

Debt-laden Islamabad gets Beijing funds for joint venture opposed by Delhi

24 May 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government have their hands full as the pandemic batters an already slumping economy. (Nikkei Montage/Source photo by Reuters) 
Coronavirus

Modi buried under avalanche of COVID-19 cases and 120m jobless

India struggles as slumping economy takes another hit from spreading pandemic

23 May 2020
Shaktikanta Das, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, announced a surprise rate cut of four-tenths of a percentage point in hopes of easing the economic pain of the coronavirus.
Economy

India cuts key rates in surprise move to ease coronavirus shock

Economic growth to 'remain in negative territory' this year, says central bank

22 May 2020
Japan's state of emergency to combat the coronavirus, initially scheduled to be lifted on May 31, will be maintained in metropolitan Tokyo for now. (Photo by Masayuki Terazawa)
Coronavirus

Japan weighs lifting Tokyo's coronavirus emergency May 25

Restrictions scrapped in Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures as outbreak eases

21 May 2020
Indians wait to board a repatriation flight from Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City, on May 9: There are reports that more than 400,000 Indians worldwide are trying to return home. © AFP/Jiji
Coronavirus

Coronavirus wrecks South Asian migrant livelihoods in Middle East

Some 900,000 stranded workers to test health care systems and economies

20 May 2020