From the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia to the bustling cities of the modern era, the countries of Asia offer a glimpse into the diversity of the world's population. Here, we provide a brief ...

Some Asian countries stand to gain if US president-elect Donald Trump pushes ahead with his promised massive tariffs on China ...

D onald Trump’s comeback is now certain, after he decisively won re-election to the White House, but there is growing ...

Population resettlement has become a part of South Asia’s post-colonialism playbook. The practice causes real harms to ethnic ...

A study by the Asian Development Bank shows that countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than ...

Developing Asia faces a potential 17% loss in its collective gross domestic product (GDP) by 2070 if high emissions persist, ...

It is the world’s largest country by land mass – nearly twice as big as Canada, the world’s second-largest nation – and covers all of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe. It shares ...

It's been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea. Now a canal being built by the ...

SINGAPORE: Four Southeast Asian countries – Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand – have become partner countries of BRICS, a group of emerging economies that is seen as a counterweight to ...

Keynote address by Masatsugu Asakawa, President, Asian Development Bank, at the 23rd Ministerial Conference of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program, ...