Global population growth is concentrating in vulnerable Asian and African megacities. These urban centers face increasing flood threats due...

Bangladeshi government employees protested a new service law, halting administrative functions and locking the Secretariat gate briefly. Si...

Bangladesh faces rising unrest. Government employees and business leaders protest Muhammad Yunus's interim government policies. They fear e...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, a key moment in Vietnam’s history and the story of Ho Chi Minh, who started hi...

Vietnam is the world's third-largest rice exporter, and the staple importance to Vietnamese culture is palpable in the Mekong Delta.

In China, a study showed that extreme rainfall had reduced rice yields over the past 20 years. India limited rice exports out of concern fo...

The “reglobalisation” will take years, and world's trade data is just beginning to offer clues about the might of the changes, and who’s wi...

No country is likely to challenge India in size for centuries. What had long been "the world's largest democracy" is now, simply, "the worl...

No country is likely to challenge India in size for centuries. What had long been "the world's largest democracy" is now, simply, "the worl...

While much of that pride is well placed, it also breeds cockiness. It gives Xi a justification for unwinding the policies of openness that ...

The announcement drew sharp criticism from the Group of Seven industrialised nations' agriculture ministers meeting in Germany, who said th...

However fierce in battle, the Taliban seem to understand that governing an impoverished, war-ravaged nation is a very different challenge f...

India — eternally confident about being the only South Asian economy that matters — now must grapple with the fact that it, too, is poorer ...

The Houston-born performer with the husky voice and silver beard sold tens of millions of records.

In November 2014, the world held its breath as Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Japan’s Shinzo Abe exchanged one of the frostiest handshakes i...

There is a tendency to create separate infrastructural tracks for rich and poor, instead of trying to ensure basic facilities are available...

World leaders looking for ways to ease global food shortages may have found one answer in warehouses dotted around Japan where a rice mount...