Smartly, Asia isn't waiting. Whether the U.S. can ever catch up is an open question.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 (IPS) - Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.

There is a growing hawkish consensus in the United States that views the Chinese government as an aggressive and expansionist power that seeks global domination. This consensus view exaggerates Chines

BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China's best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases. Outpatient services have been suspended at Fudan...

The ratings agency notes that less than 3.5% of exports from every Asian country go to the U.K. and that 'direct financial linkages' are limited.

Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China's best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases

The inaugural exhibition, unfolding in two installments, features works by some forty artists and collectives from twenty-one countries, including a room-filling textile sculpture by the Malaysian artist Anne Samat.

A giant Asian alliance is forming as COVID-19 drives a wedge between America and China.

TripleBlind CEO Riddhiman Das talks about the growth opportunity.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's health minister, who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer, has tested positive for COVID-19. A Health...

The death rate for Nipah virus is up to 75% and it has no vaccine. While the world focuses on Covid-19, scientists are working hard to ensure it doesn't cause the next pandemic.

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Sri Lanka's health minister who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer has tested positive for COVID-19

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication

After years of neglect under Trump, the region needs fresh attention from Biden.

A little-noticed region of the world raises a vital question about the weather.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka reopened to foreign tourists on Thursday after a nearly 10-month pandemic closure that cut deeply into the Indian Ocean island nation's lucrative travel

China's capital Beijing recorded another seven coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a lingering outbreak in the country's north. Another 46 were recorded in ...

The coronavirus is joined by swine fever, swine flu and bird flu.

Autumn will begin with multiple tropical threats to populated areas in both the western Pacific and Indian Ocean basins, which will add to the flooding risk ...