Pakistan recorded its deadliest year of violence in a decade, with gunfights, airstrikes, and suicide bombings marking much of 2025, as relations with neighboring Afghanistan deteriorated.
How Pakistan’s Asim Munir became Trump’s ‘favourite field marshal’
The army chief, analysts say, has driven Pakistan's geopolitical reemergence over the past year as a soldier-diplomat.
Indonesia raises alert for the Mount Bur Ni Telong volcano
Authorities in Indonesia have raised the alert level for the Mount Bur Ni Telong volcano to its second highest following a series of increased activity and volcanic earthquakes ...
Slow Pace of Flood Recovery Stirs Anger in Far-Flung Corner of Indonesia
Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government.
Indonesia’s new criminal code requires public oversight, minister says
Indonesia's new criminal code, which will make crimes of premarital sex and insulting the state when it takes effect on January 2, will need public oversight to help prevent abuse of the law, a ...
China launches largest military drills off Taiwan in 8 months with live-fire exercises caught on camera
China launches biggest military encirclement of Taiwan in 8 months with live-fire drills, rockets and warships in massive 'Justice Mission 2025' exercise.
China Vanke’s near-default exposes fragility of the faltering recovery in the property industry
China Vanke, once the country's largest homebuilder, narrowly avoided defaulting on a $284 million debt last week as the painfully slow recovery in China's property market drags on. ( read original story ...)
Licence raj still makes doing business in Bangladesh hard
Operating a textile mill requires at least 20 licences, a spinning mill 22, an LPG plant 26, and a pharmaceutical factory 24 ...
India Becomes World’s Fourth-Largest Economy: Top 5 Richest Cities Power The GDP’s $4.18 Trillion Rise
India’s rapid economic expansion in 2025 has placed its metropolitan regions firmly at the centre of growth, innovation, and investment. , Economy, Times Now ...
Inside China’s Six-Decade Campaign to Dominate Rare Earths
From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but heavily polluting industry.