The Japanese stock market has experienced an impressive upswing. Since January 2023, the Nikkei 225 index has risen by around 30% – by far outperforming

There have been reports that Ukrainian units have crossed the Dnipro River and established bridgeheads on the eastern side – which could be an important moment in Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive …

China’s Zhongzhi Enterprise Group headline-making revelations have investors uttering global markets’ least favorite word: contagion. A liquidity crisis at the troubled shadow bank comes just …

The United Nations Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths made a visit this week to Myanmar’s military capital Naypyidaw, and went mano-a-mano wi…

MANILA – The historic meeting among leaders of the United States, Japan and South Korea this week at Camp David has been hailed as a “new milestone” in the burgeoning trilateral alliance. For…

An application in the United States seeking protection from creditors while Evergrande Group restructures its heavy debt has burdened Chinese stocks as it fueled investors’s concerns about Ch…

The price of hedging China risk on world markets hasn’t fluttered during the past couple of weeks, which means that investors with real money on the line and speculators looking for a score aren’t …

The US intelligence community says Ukraine’s offensive has failed by not reaching its stated objective, to take the city of Melitopol. According to a report in the Washington Post, Ukrain…

The nomination of Senator Anwar ul Haq Kakar, a resident of Balochistan province, as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan is a good decision by the powerful establishment to bring people from u…

Ukraine: It’s now or never Uwe Papart observes how the Ukrainian counteroffensive, touted as a significant effort, has stalled without breaching Russia’s fortified defenses. A territorial com…

The federal Labor government used the recent ALP national conference to address internal dissent over the controversial AUKUS security pact and its plan for acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. Ta…

July 2023 was a month to remember in Singapore’s political history. Transport Minister S Iswaran was arrested and released on bail.  He is

When leaders of the BRICS group of large emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – meet in Johannesburg for two days beginning

The stars seem to be aligning for a showdown at a China-Philippines disputed submerged reef in the sensitive South China Sea. On August 5, a China

Both rice and wheat supplies are now facing alarming shortages. The prospect of another world food crisis that would rival those in 2007–08, 1972–74 and 1966–68 is front-page news.  In th…

The past few weeks have seen a huge surge of interest among scientists and the public in a material called LK-99 after it was claimed to be a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure…

Earth is overheating due to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. This is “the biggest market failure the world has seen” according to

Chinese stocks have been under pressure recently as investors worry that property and local debt crises have become a double whammy that will hurt

In late 2001, Goldman Sachs published one of the hundreds of papers and reports churned out by global investment banks every month. Often forgotten within

The United States has been instrumental in leading the post-war global economic system which it helped create. Yet its economic weight has declined over

In a resolute stand, golfers have escalated their battle against the Hong Kong government's forthcoming takeover of a century-old golf course, slated for