Between Asia and the Gulf
The times, as Bob Dylan would sing, they are a-changin’. That the Middle East is looking East is old news. Pundits have been obsessing about the shift in the balance…
Asian countries denounce ‘real threat’ of global trade war
Asian countries have voiced concern about the potentially devastating impact of a US-China trade war, with ministers calling for the acceleration of talks for a gigantic Beijing-backed free-trade deal that…
South Asia: on the brink again
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time, counselled Einstein. But this is what India and Pakistan are doing right now. As I write this, a day…
Asia’s surging fuel exports depress refining industry profits
Asia's biggest oil consumers are flooding the region with fuel as refining output is exceeding consumption amid a slowdown in demand growth, pressuring industry profits. Since 2006, the Asia-Pacific has…
Central and West Asia in 2017
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five countries of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan – had their own dictatorships. All of them…
Questioning South Asia
Coming back to Karachi is not always a pleasant experience. You come out of the airport on to Shahrah-e-Faisal, and apartment buildings on both sides of the road present the…
Korean lessons for South Asia
It’s not every day that you see history in the making. Watching the leaders of North and South Korea, locked in an existential struggle for more than six decades, take…
An Asia of cooperation
It was four years ago that Narendra Modi rose to power on the bandwagon of Hindutva and populist slogans like ‘development for all’. While the BJP government under Modi has…
Fighting inequality in Asia and the Pacific
Inequality is increasing in Asia and the Pacific. Our region's remarkable economic success story belies a widening gap between rich and poor. A gap that's trapping people in poverty and,…
Towards safe, orderly and regular migration in Asia and the Pacific
In 2017, Asia and the Pacific will be home to 62 million international migrants. That's a population larger than the Republic of Korea's. Even more people from our region -…
