Commentary

HONG KONG: Traders are nonetheless making an attempt to parse the fallout from the current choice to drag the blockbuster preliminary public providing of Ant Group.China’s greatest monetary know-how group had been set to boost US$37 billion…

LONDON: Within the wake of the signing of the Regional Complete Financial Partnership (RCEP) on Nov 15, commerce has once more turn out to be a key problem for Asian geopolitics and geoeconomics.RCEP was a transparent indication that Asian…

TOKYO: In his inaugural speech earlier than the Japanese Weight loss program, newly-appointed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga laid out his coverage plan for the nation. It included coverage responses to the COVID-19 disaster, regulatory…

SINGAPORE: Lengthy overdue consolidation is lastly coming to Asia’s battered airline sector with COVID-19 precipitating the merger of South Korea’s two essential airways.On Monday (Nov 16), Korean Air (KAL) and holding firm Hanjin KAL…

SEOUL: Round 5 years in the past, I submitted an article to a number one strategic research journal detailing how choices beforehand thought-about excessive – similar to abandoning the US alliance, acceding to China’s dominance, declaring a…

JAKARTA: Residents of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia could also be respiration simpler this 12 months. The haze that normally blankets our skies throughout these months has largely been absent.Due to the dry season being wetter than…

COLOGNE: At a speech earlier than the UN Common Meeting in September, China President Xi Jinping made the world’s single largest local weather dedication to this point by stating that China would develop into carbon impartial by 2060.The…

NEW DEHLI: As anticipated, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD) carried out nicely within the recently-held normal election on Nov 8. The election consequence has proven the religion and belief folks have in Aung…

NEW SOUTH WALES: Greater than 37 million Myanmar residents, together with 5 million first-time voters, will go to the polls on Nov 8 (Sunday).The election represents a litmus check for the recognition of Nationwide League for Democracy…

PARIS: Self-reinvented Mahathir Mohamad received the 2018 basic election, however lower than two years later, the fairy story ended.In February, below strain from inside dissenters in his coalition, Mahathir resigned from the federal…