Kathmandu — Nepalese voters have gone to the polls in a landmark election that could redefine the country’s political future, months after a youth-led uprising toppled the government and ignited a generational revolt against the political establishment. The vote is the first nationwide election since massive protests in September 2025
China has set its lowest economic growth target in decades, reflecting mounting domestic economic pressures and escalating trade tensions with the United States. But the sudden outbreak of war involving Iran is adding a new layer of uncertainty for Beijing, particularly given China’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil and the
A carbon market built through negotiation has entered operational territory. The United Nations has approved the first issuance of credits under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, marking the point at which the new multilateral carbon market shifts from rulemaking to execution. Architecture becomes throughput. From design to execution The
A wager on infrastructure, not just software New Delhi — India is placing a long wager on the infrastructure that will determine who leads the next technological era. This week, Adani Group said it plans to invest $100 billion over the next decade to build a nationwide network of AI-ready
The transition of the Philippine energy landscape is increasingly defined by the entry of specialized international capital into isolated grid environments. A 30 million dollar bridge loan acquisition facility now supports the transfer of the 16MW wind and 6MW storage project of Philippines Hybrid Energy Systems Inc to Verdant Energy.
In Bangkok’s financial district, the screens show familiar contracts: equities, currencies, index futures. What is changing is not visible in the tickers, but in the legal architecture beneath them. Thailand has approved amendments to its Derivatives Act that will allow cryptocurrencies and carbon credits to serve as underlying assets in
Dhaka woke up this week to a political landscape that had been scrubbed clean. After fifteen years of an autocratic grip that ended in the blood of a student-led uprising, Bangladesh has delivered its verdict. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed a landslide victory in the country’s first competitive
Bangkok woke up to a different political map. Thailand general election 2026 delivered a clear and unexpected result: a conservative surge led by Anutin Charnvirakul and the Bhumjaithai Party, vaulting the party to the largest bloc in parliament and halting what many believed was an inexorable drift toward progressive reform.
The era of Japanese political hesitation effectively ended on Sunday. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, capitalizing on her “Iron Lady” persona and a fractured opposition, steered the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory that defies recent trends of incumbent fatigue. Projected to secure a supermajority with coalition partner Ishin,
A Deal Decades in the Making For nearly two decades, trade negotiators from Europe and India circled one another, meeting, pausing, restarting, and retreating again. On January 27, that long courtship ended. The European Union and India reached a sweeping free trade agreement that leaders on both sides now describe
