Anti-government protesters gathered in Bangkok on Tuesday to prepare to march from a university in the Thai capital to Government House to demand that the military government hold a general election by November. Police have declared Government House and surrounding streets a no-go zone for the opposition march marking four years since a May 22, […]

Indians are discovering a quick — though super-expensive — way around the long wait for an American permanent residency. In a small conference room in a plush New Delhi hotel, a small audience is listening to a presentation on the quickest route to realizing the American dream. The U.S. firm AVG America Investments — run […]

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday it would continue to pursue investigations into 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and looked forward to working with Malaysian law enforcement authorities, which have reopened a probe into the fund following a change of government this month. “The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that the […]

Sony Corporation of America has reached an agreement with a consortium of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment to acquire all its interest in EMI Music Publishing for $1.9 billion. The financial investment arm of Mubadala, known as Mubadala Capital, has managed EMI Music Publishing since 2012. Mubadala has held an approximately 60 percent equity interest in […]

Asian markets looked set for a mixed start on Tuesday after Wall Street notched gains on the back of an apparent cooling in recent U.S.-China trade tensions. Nikkei futures traded in Chicago were higher by 0.05 percent compared to the index’s Monday close at 23,015 while Australian SPI futures were lower by 0.21 percent at […]

Peter Navarro, one President Donald Trump‘s top trade advisors, recommended a man identified by some news outlets as an FBI informant for a top Trump administration job, Axios reported Monday. Navarro floated Stefan Halper’s name for unidentified ambassadorships in Asia, according to the news outlet. Navarro, a harsh critic of China, knew Halper, an academic […]

China is considering an end to the limit imposed on the number of children that each family can have, according to a report. Such a move, as reported by Bloomberg on Monday, would be a dramatic shift away from the one-child policy that China imposed on its citizens for decades. In 2015, Beijing relaxed restrictions […]

A deadly virus described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having the potential of becoming the next deadly major outbreak has killed nine people in the southern Indian state of Kerala. State health officials confirmed that three people had contracted the Nipah virus within the past fortnight. The first death was reported to government […]

Malaysia has set up a special taskforce that will look into possible criminal conduct of individuals involved in the management of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the prime minister’s office said on Monday. The taskforce, which will include the anti-graft agency, police and the central bank, will also be responsible for identifying and seizing […]

President Donald Trump’s administration should focus on pushing for structural changes in China, rather than on the massive trade imbalance between the world’s two largest economies, a former U.S. government official said Monday. “I’d say focus more on structural changes, getting market opening, fair treatment, level playing field, IP (intellectual property) issues, investment protection. Focus […]