The Latest Breaking News from Asia

Thailand's bullish economic recovery is attracting high volumes of foreign fund inflows into Thai bonds and stocks, pushing the baht to a seven-month high, making it the strongest currency in Asia year-to-date.

“Growing up, Kyi Hla was ‘the man’ in Asia, the guy we looked up to, the name every golfer knew.”

The case is building for US companies to move operations they offshored to Asia closer to home.

Asian markets fell Friday following a steep drop on Wall Street fueled by renewed fears that Russia will soon invade Ukraine, adding to long-running angst about the Federal Reserve's plans to hike interest rates. While tensions in Eastern Europe continue to absorb most of the attention, oil extended losses as…

Shares have mostly fallen in Asia as investors remain anxious over the possibility that Russia could invade Ukraine

Feb. 11-17, 2021

It’s widely known that Asian Americans felt – and were – persecuted during the pandemic. But the extent of this violence, and its uneven geographic distribution across the U.S., is now much clearer, thanks to research I conducted with collaborators at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the independent research…

‘This is a big piece in the south-east Asia jigsaw’ - James Mundy, InsideAsia

Singapore will ease Covid travel testing rules and launch new vaccinated travel lanes with the Philippines and Israel as it woos more tourists and seeks to reclaim its status of one of Asia’s major travel hubs. Shares of the city-state’s aviation-related stocks rose.