Japan is shifting its fiscal reporting from a primary-balance target to a debt ratio, which risks mistaking inflation for fiscal space, just as rising yields load the budget with interest costs ...

Pax Silica offers a chance for the Philippines to bolster its manufacturing sector, but only if is situated in a broader ...

Kyrgyzstan’s list of alternative fuel suppliers looks reassuring on paper, but none can yet match Russia’s scale, price or ...

Governments across Asia are increasingly allocating public capital to industrial capacity, yet the institutional capabilities required to manage these investments are often overlooked.

Malaysia’s fuel subsidies are draining public finances while holding back the investment needed to accelerate the country’s renewable energy transition.

Singapore’s multicultural cuisine gives it a distinctive soft-power asset, but turning culinary heritage into lasting influence abroad depends on more than government branding.

Cybercrime crackdowns are making Asia’s scam networks smaller, more mobile and harder to dismantle, with Sri Lanka emerging ...

Japan has normalised its security policy through constitutional reinterpretation alone — a referendum would test whether ...

Tokyo and New Delhi recognise that they are natural partners in critical minerals, but without commercial projects that meet both countries’ needs, statements of intent will not translate into ...

President Lee’s ‘peace first’ approach to inter-Korean relations places engagement and risk reduction ahead of ...

The Trump-Xi summit is another step towards the stabilisation of US-China relations, but the rest of the region cannot rely ...