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Authorities in Indonesia's Bali, named Asia's most beautiful island this year, have vowed to show no mercy towards misbehaving tourists in order to protect the island's tourism reputation. Bali's ...
MANILA, Philippines — Five partylist groups have a statistical chance of winning with the maximum number of seats a party-list can win in the 2025 midterm elections should it be held at present, said ...
Death of Kerala's Shankaranarayanan brings to closure an unusual episode of grief, revenge Manjeri Sessions Court convicted Shankaranarayanan and two others to life imprisonment for the murder ...
BINH DUONG, Vietnam – Lego opened a US$1 billion (S$1.34 billion) factory in Vietnam on April 9, its second facility in Asia as the Danish toymaker pushes to expand its reach across the region.
In its Asian Development Outlook report, the ADB projected that growth in developing Asia will ease slightly to 4.9 per cent in 2025 - the slowest pace since 2022 - and slow further to 4.7 per ...
[MUMBAI] The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lower its growth forecast for Asia further after the region was hit the hardest by tariffs from the US. The multilateral institution said the US tariffs ...
The double-digit tariff hikes imposed by the United States’ Trump administration have buckled Asia to its knees. Markets have plummeted, costs have risen, and outlooks on the economic future of ...
Asia’s top shuttlers are ready to battle it out at the 2025 Badminton Asia Championships. The action unfolds from 8 to 13 April at the Ningbo Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in China’s coastal ...
MANILA, April 9 (Reuters) - The full implementation of U.S. tariffs could cut developing Asia's growth by about a third of a percentage point this year and nearly a full percentage point in 2026 ...
Factory-led economies are panicking about the steep new tariffs. Not the Philippines, which believes its role as a manufacturing alternative to China can expand. By Alexandra Stevenson Photographs ...
The two efforts underlined the delicate balance that South Korea needs to strike after the country, one of the most loyal U.S. allies in Asia, was hit by some of the heaviest tariff rates ...
U.S. President Donald Trump made good on his promise to implement a broad and brutal tariff program, allowing new levies on almost all goods entering the United States to go into effect as ...