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November 3rd, 2022

Counting the cost of climate change

Developing countries seek compensation for "loss and damage" from global warming at upcoming COP27

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Counting the cost of climate change

Developing countries seek compensation for 'loss and damage' from global warming at upcoming COP27 summit

A resident of Rizal province, the Philippines, wades through a flooded street after Typhoon Vamco struck the country in November 2020. 
Whether Southeast Asia's first-generation startups like Grab and Sea can meet targets and validate business models will test the region's tech ecosystem amid its first-ever market downturn.
Business Spotlight

From Grab to Sea, ASEAN tech confronts end of golden decade

Investors taste first market downturn as unicorn high wears off

A Jollibee fast-food restaurant in New York. The company is focusing on increasing its footprint in North America and China. (Photo courtesy of Jollibee Foods)
Companies

Asian fast-food giant Jollibee eyes doubling sales in 5 years

CEO unveils post-pandemic plan that includes M&As in recent interview

Experts say that fintech companies have been far more successful than brick-and-mortar banks at drawing people into Pakistan's formal financial systems. (Source photo by AP) 
Technology

Digital wallets, other apps drive Pakistan's fintech ambitions

Analysts say technology is filling a vacuum left by traditional banks

Experts say China's Global Security Initiative is about reshaping the region's security architecture, spreading Beijing's brand of policing and surveillance, and exporting a vision that everything must be seen through "a securitized lens."
Asia Insight

China's Global Security Initiative: Xi's wedge in the U.S.-led order

Beijing's next big program ups pressure to take sides, rationalizes Ukraine war

Kolas Yotaka, center, holds a rally on Oct. 9 in Hualien with Vice President William Lai, right. (Photo courtesy of Kolas Yotaka's office)
Politics

Indigenous Taiwanese governor hopeful challenges dynastic rule

Rising DPP star Kolas Yotaka pitted against Hualien grandee

Rishi Sunak waves outside Conservative Party headquarters in London on Oct. 24 after being named the U.K.'s next prime minister.
Politics

Indians laud Rishi Sunak becoming U.K.'s first nonwhite PM

Modi talks of 'living bridge'; other lndians revel in turning tables on old colonial power

A company displays lumber in Vietnam, whose wood products industry is grappling with risks ranging from the Ukraine war to fake forest certificates and U.S. trade probes. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
Supply Chain

Vietnam's wood trade under pressure from logging, Ukraine war

Murky origins plague furniture sector coming down from COVID-fueled buying spree

From left: Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's opposition chief; Muhyiddin Yassin, head of the National Alliance coalition; Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the incumbent prime minister; and Mahathir Mohamad, the former and longest-serving leader. (Source photos by Reuters)
Malaysia election

Malaysia's general election: 4 things to know

Some 1.4m new voters aged 18-21 will be key to choosing next government

Xi Jinping delivers his political report to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on Oct. 16: He offered his own recipe for party legitimacy and the country's economic survival.
Opinion

Xi Jinping is preparing the Communist Party to face new realities

Political report reflects worsened economic and diplomatic position

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Washington on April 11: His unique background is reshaping the country's foreign policy.
Opinion

Modi is turning India's nonalignment policy into a business model

Top officials advance export drive by promoting wares of state-owned arms makers

Children are seen at the Mae La refugee camp in April 2022. Three generations of Burmese children, many of whom do not speak Burmese, have grown up in the camp, the largest of nine refugee camps established in the 1980s along the Thai-Myanmar border inside Thailand. (Courtesy of Visual Rebellion Myanmar)
Arts

Bangkok photo exhibit portrays plight of Myanmar refugees

Those forced to live in Thai borderlands face an "Endless Escape"

A vendor sells food for iftar -- the meal that breaks the fast in the evening -- on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a traditional food market in Jakarta. 
Tea Leaves

Why expatriates should stop moaning

Reflections on the not-so-subtle art of living in a foreign country