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        <![CDATA[The real problem with Narendra Modi’s airport-building frenzy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Build it and they will come. But how will they leave?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan is rethinking its divorce laws ]]>
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        <![CDATA[A move to introduce joint custody marks a big shift]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India’s cockroach party become a political movement?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The government is betting that the answer is no ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asian activists say too much egg production is cruel]]>
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        <![CDATA[They are hatching ingenious schemes]]>
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        <![CDATA[An interview with South Korea’s president]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Jae Myung has put his country on track again, but challenges loom]]>
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        <![CDATA[Money troubles are driving India’s states to drink ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Things are so dire that one state has produced a rational alcohol policy]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[America’s secretary of war pulls his punches on China]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Pentagon’s strategy for Asia contains a very big hole]]>
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        <![CDATA[Worries about migrants imperil South Korea’s shipbuilding boom]]>
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        <![CDATA[Compared with most rich countries, the foreign workforce is still small]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sex tourists fuel outrage about vice in Japan]]>
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        <![CDATA[The debates do not have women’s interests at heart]]>
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        <![CDATA[The rise of One Nation is melting Australian politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could the tumult produce a new party?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pakistan is battling two insurgencies ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Problems mount at home as its leader plays peacemaker abroad]]>
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        <![CDATA[Wanted: Asia news editor]]>
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        <![CDATA[An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[India’s republic of uncles ]]>
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        <![CDATA[A cockroach meme rattles the country’s gerontocrats]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Pete Hegseth pulls his punches on China]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s secretary of war meanwhile lectures his country’s allies]]>
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        <![CDATA[llliberal leaders in mainland South-East Asia revamp their regimes]]>
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        <![CDATA[But they may struggle to solve their two biggest challenges]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indonesia’s erratic president grabs the country’s commodity exports ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Facing a tumbling currency, Prabowo Subianto announces a vast new agency to sell resources to the world]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s beloved Indian restaurants are under threat]]>
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        <![CDATA[An unexpected casualty of the country’s immigration backlash]]>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi gives India’s elite a taste of the bad old days]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pay taxes, get lectures]]>
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        <![CDATA[War has not deterred Asian Muslims from the hajj]]>
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        <![CDATA[Yet they are finding the costs ever harder to bear]]>
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        <![CDATA[Essential India newsletter: Introducing Ashoka, our new column ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Leo Mirani explains how the column got its name]]>
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        <![CDATA[Overseas Chinese risk losing their oldest institutions]]>
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        <![CDATA[Clan associations must change to survive]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Japan and China will struggle to end their feud]]>
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        <![CDATA[Warming relations between America and China bode ill for Japan]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s diplomats are hosting the world]]>
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        <![CDATA[But what is getting done?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is Donald Trump selling out Taiwan?]]>
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        <![CDATA[He suggests he is bargaining with China over weapons sales to the island]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s loudest political fight obscures a more urgent one]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country’s collapsing cities could benefit from plans to redraw the electoral map]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet Anno Takahiro, founder of Japan’s hottest political party]]>
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        <![CDATA[The software engineer and sci-fi writer wants to use AI to reshape politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s legendary hill towns are sinking]]>
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        <![CDATA[Overdevelopment threatens many Himalayan states]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Gulf war will change Asia for good]]>
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        <![CDATA[Energy-shocked countries are determined never to be hostage again]]>
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        <![CDATA[Drama in the Philippines after the vice-president is impeached]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sara Duterte’s political career hangs in the balance]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s pricey private universities want to take on the Ivy League]]>
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        <![CDATA[Billionaire founders are bankrolling their efforts]]>
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        <![CDATA[The gutting of USAID has left a void China will not fill]]>
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        <![CDATA[China lends $35 for every dollar it donates. That is not a substitute for American aid]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/05/07/the-gutting-of-usaid-has-left-a-void-china-will-not-fill</link>
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        <![CDATA[The energy shock triggers an Asian dash for biofuels]]>
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        <![CDATA[But tackling one crisis could exacerbate another ]]>
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        <![CDATA[America is massing troops near Taiwan to deter troublemaking by China]]>
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        <![CDATA[The timing of annual exercises is set by weather patterns favourable to any possible invasion]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asia’s stranded seafarers suffer as the Iran war drags on]]>
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        <![CDATA[In a more dangerous world, unsung mariners are under increasing threat]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/05/05/asias-stranded-seafarers-suffer-as-the-iran-war-drags-on</link>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi has extended his grip on India]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s ruling party scores a historic victory in West Bengal—but should beware voters’ unhappiness with incumbents ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The case against trees]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s bureaucrats are bad at trade-offs between nature and roads]]>
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        <![CDATA[Climate change is forcing Vanuatu to confront an unthinkable future]]>
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        <![CDATA[Legal battles abroad offer little comfort]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is Vietnam’s latest railway ambition worthwhile?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Some say the whopping project should be scaled down]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ageing workers in East Asia are essential. More are needed]]>
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        <![CDATA[Yet they often face high barriers to employment and unpalatable options]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/27/ageing-workers-in-east-asia-are-essential-more-are-needed</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Making India’s numbers count again]]>
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        <![CDATA[India is restoring the credibility of its statistics. Will it last?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indonesia suggests charging a toll to transit the Malacca Strait]]>
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        <![CDATA[It’s not the first time that it has toyed with the unwelcome idea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Japan is loosening restrictions on exports of lethal arms ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae, the hawkish new prime minister, hopes to spur a defence industrial renaissance  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[An anti-China protest lands Kazakhs in prison]]>
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        <![CDATA[Its economic power means China calls political shots, too]]>
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        <![CDATA[Honking is harming India’s health—and its economy]]>
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        <![CDATA[But nobody seems to care]]>
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        <![CDATA[What do the geopolitical successes of Asim Munir mean for Pakistan? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite some breathless optimism, the military strongman is unlikely to deliver deeper change ]]>
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        <![CDATA[What have the Mughals ever done for us?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[How India’s greatest Muslim empire built its most powerful Hindu party ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Singapore and Malaysia knock heads over the war in Iran]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[They have their own strait to worry about]]>
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        <![CDATA[Collapsing remittances will compound Asia’s energy shock]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Could workers kicked out of the Gulf find fortune in East Asia?]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/16/collapsing-remittances-will-compound-asias-energy-shock</link>
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        <![CDATA[Introducing our Asia Bulletin newsletter]]>
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        <![CDATA[Every week, our team of correspondents will write about topics as varied as the region itself]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/16/introducing-our-asia-bulletin-newsletter</link>
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        <![CDATA[A battle for female voters is changing India’s elections]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Politicians are doling out cash to get their support]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/14/a-battle-for-female-voters-is-changing-indias-elections</link>
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        <![CDATA[The secret of India’s most liveable megacity]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Kolkata’s pleasantness is not something to celebrate]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/12/the-secret-of-indias-most-liveable-megacity</link>
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        <![CDATA[Scam Inc has a new weapon]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[For the first time, investigators have traced spyware to its physical origin—revealing new types of duplicity]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/interactive/asia/2026/04/10/scam-inc-has-a-new-weapon</link>
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        <![CDATA[Cambodia honours a life-saving rat]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The rodent helped clear more than 100 unexploded mines]]>
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        <![CDATA[China may be building a big new airbase in the South China Sea]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[ But analysts are scratching their heads over the timing and location]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s religious minorities face harsher anti-conversion laws ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Exhumations fuel communal tensions]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Pakistan emerged as an unlikely broker of peace in the Gulf]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The troubled country has cannily managed its ties with the warring parties]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[A wary rapprochement between India and China]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[New Indian investment rules are a cautious start]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/07/a-wary-rapprochement-between-india-and-china</link>
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        <![CDATA[The tumbling rupee could be a big problem for Narendra Modi]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s prime minister knows the risks of a weak currency]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/05/the-tumbling-rupee-could-be-a-big-problem-for-narendra-modi</link>
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        <![CDATA[America’s foes see opportunity in Asia’s oil shock]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Russia and China are quietly stepping in]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/01/americas-foes-see-opportunity-in-asias-oil-shock</link>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Why women, more than men, are abandoning rural Japan ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Bigger cities are, in turn, skewing more female]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/01/why-women-more-than-men-are-abandoning-rural-japan</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[How the Gulf’s war is becoming Asia’s crisis too]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Prices, debt, and scarcity will strike a blow against the world’s workshop]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/04/01/how-the-gulfs-war-is-becoming-asias-crisis-too</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Is Bollywood’s latest megahit propaganda for Narendra Modi?]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[“Dhurandhar: The Revenge” portrays India extracting a price for Pakistani perfidy]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/29/is-bollywoods-latest-megahit-propaganda-for-narendra-modi</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[How Chinese companies are reshaping Indonesia]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[They are fleeing cut-throat competition at home]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/26/how-chinese-companies-are-reshaping-indonesia</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Millions of Burmese struggle to find safety in Thailand]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Many refugees are left exposed]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/26/millions-of-burmese-struggle-to-find-safety-in-thailand</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[An island of American motoring in Central Asia is changing fast]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/26/china-is-breaking-into-one-of-the-worlds-weirdest-car-markets</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[The end of the world’s longest-running Maoist insurgency ]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[A report from one of the Naxalites’ final redoubts]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/26/the-end-of-the-worlds-longest-running-maoist-insurgency</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[The world’s most unaffordable housing is not where you think]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Asia’s great cities will founder without more reasonably priced homes]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/25/the-worlds-most-unaffordable-housing-is-not-where-you-think</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Why Bangalore has India’s best billionaires]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Its philanthropists want to do more than just give money away]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/22/why-bangalore-has-indias-best-billionaires</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Life in Myanmar’s biggest city is increasingly grim]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[A new rubber-stamp parliament will solve nothing]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/19/life-in-myanmars-biggest-city-is-increasingly-grim</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[A deadly strike in Kabul could have big knock-on effects]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The war between Afghanistan and Pakistan is growing ever more lethal]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/19/a-deadly-strike-in-kabul-could-have-big-knock-on-effects</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Panicked Indians are scrambling to buy gas]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[War over Iran threatens the fuel that powers hundreds of millions of stoves]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/19/panicked-indians-are-scrambling-to-buy-gas</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Will America’s Asian allies get dragged into the Iran war?]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[They are worried Uncle Sam will abandon them if they don’t fight]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/16/will-americas-asian-allies-get-dragged-into-the-iran-war</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[What Nitish Kumar did for Bihar, India’s poorest state]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The state’s longest-serving chief minister raised voters’ expectations of their politicians]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/15/what-nitish-kumar-did-for-bihar-indias-poorest-state</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Islamists woo Bangladesh with everything but Islam]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[They are a hit on campus, too]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/12/islamists-woo-bangladesh-with-everything-but-islam</link>
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      <title>
        <![CDATA[Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The island’s unmanned aerial vehicles are already in use on Ukraine’s front line]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/12/taiwans-bid-to-export-drones-free-of-chinese-parts-is-taking-off</link>
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        <![CDATA[Nepal’s new prime minister is a 35-year-old former rapper]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Voters have given Balendra Shah an unprecedented mandate and enormous power]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/12/nepals-new-prime-minister-is-a-35-year-old-former-rapper</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Seoul’s housing market is a huge political and economic headache]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Lee Jae Myung is staking his presidency on fixing it]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is India the fourth- or fifth-biggest economy? It does not matter]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Politicians boasting about India’s economic prowess are laying a trap for themselves]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/08/is-india-the-fourth-or-fifth-biggest-economy-it-does-not-matter</link>
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        <![CDATA[Allegations against a corruption watchdog rock Malaysian politics]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, repeats his predecessors’ answer]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/03/05/allegations-against-a-corruption-watchdog-rock-malaysian-politics</link>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to Kashiwazaki, home to the world’s largest nuclear plant]]>
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        <![CDATA[What one small city says about modern Japan’s development]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Investigative journalism in India is under threat ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Politicians and tycoons are tightening their grip]]>
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        <![CDATA[Fifteen years after Fukushima, Japan faces an energy dilemma]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Restarting the world’s largest nuclear plant will not resolve its problems]]>
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        <![CDATA[India, the world’s most colourful country, is changing its hues]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Its transformation can be seen in its evolving palette]]>
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        <![CDATA[What does “open war” between Pakistan and Afghanistan amount to?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The bombing of military sites in Kabul and Kandahar marks a sharp escalation in tensions]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/02/27/what-does-open-war-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-amount-to</link>
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        <![CDATA[What North Korea’s mysterious party congress reveals ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Kim Jong Un uses a five-yearly gathering to boost his daughter, and more]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/02/26/what-north-koreas-mysterious-party-congress-reveals</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Google Maps makes another pitch for better South Korean data]]>
      </title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Now Donald Trump is on Google’s side]]>
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        <![CDATA[China piles pressure on Japan after Takaichi Sanae’s triumph]]>
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        <![CDATA[The latest feud between the East Asian giants is unlikely to end soon ]]>
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        <![CDATA[SOS for India’s Pink City]]>
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        <![CDATA[A threat from UNESCO might prod Jaipur into saving its heritage]]>
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        <![CDATA[Modernisation is making South-East Asia more Islamic]]>
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        <![CDATA[Economic growth in Malaysia and Indonesia has not led to secularism]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s VIP culture is out of control]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country’s leaders claim to be servants but act like masters]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could One Nation soon become Australia’s most popular party?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The anti-immigrant party is dragging the Liberals rightward as well]]>
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        <![CDATA[A nasty spate of shark attacks in the Sydney area]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is global warming to blame?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The first real election since 2008 is won by a prodigal son]]>
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        <![CDATA[South Korea is still haunted by its disgraced ex-president ]]>
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        <![CDATA[A guilty verdict will not settle Yoon Suk Yeol’s toxic legacy]]>
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        <![CDATA[The flaws in India’s AI plans]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite hosting a global summit, it is a bystander in the race to develop frontier models  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s pollution is becoming an economic roadblock ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The government’s inaction runs counter to its own goals]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country’s first real election in 18 years is won by a familiar face]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asia is turning stablecoins into banking infrastructure]]>
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        <![CDATA[Speculative crypto may be tottering, but stable tokens are finding their feet across the region]]>
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        <![CDATA[India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket ]]>
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        <![CDATA[In South Asia, sports is geopolitics by other means]]>
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        <![CDATA[Led by a Marxist, battered by a storm, Sri Lanka is doing better]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s growing involvement in its neighbouring country is one factor]]>
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        <![CDATA[Thailand’s conservatives win a shock big victory]]>
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        <![CDATA[Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has revived the Thai right’s electoral fortunes]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate]]>
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        <![CDATA[A remarkable election victory that will reshape Japanese politics for years to come]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet the leader of Japan’s hard-right populist movement]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Kamiya Sohei’s party has mobilised disaffected voters]]>
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        <![CDATA[The outsize influence of America’s admiral in Asia]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Can Sam Paparo keep US strategy on an even keel?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Newborn parties are scrambling Japanese politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Though small, they have large megaphones]]>
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        <![CDATA[A booming gig economy is formalising India’s labour force]]>
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        <![CDATA[Good news for delivery drivers]]>
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        <![CDATA[An Israeli visit to the site of the Bondi attack tests Australia]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is under most pressure]]>
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        <![CDATA[An election will decide whether democracy returns to Bangladesh]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[But voters are having to pick between Islamists and a tainted party from the past]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae relies on her keenest fans in Japan]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The prime minister’s hopes for her snap election depend on their ardour ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Taiwan’s new opposition leader wants to talk to Xi Jinping]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Cheng Li-wun tells The Economist she hopes to meet China’s president early this year]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The too-slow change of Indian agriculture ]]>
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        <![CDATA[It should be the next target of Narendra Modi’s reform drive ]]>
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        <![CDATA[For the first time in 54 years there are no pandas in Japan]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[It is a sign of worsening relations with China]]>
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        <![CDATA[Thailand’s liberals face a tricky election]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The momentum is with the energetic new prime minister]]>
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        <![CDATA[Who is ahead in the race for Japan’s next parliament?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae, the prime minister, has gambled on an early election]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ageing farmers threaten South-East Asia’s growth]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Few parents want their offspring to end up working in the fields]]>
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        <![CDATA[Homegrown apps are making dating in India less awkward]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[AI tools compose love poems on behalf of tongue-tied suitors]]>
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        <![CDATA[Who really won the war between India and Pakistan?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The dispute over that dispute bodes ill for the next fight]]>
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        <![CDATA[The remarkable recovery of Narendra Modi]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite an electoral reverse in 2024, India’s prime minister seems dominant]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s popular new prime minister gambles on a snap election]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will her high approval ratings benefit her tarnished party?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Go is going nowhere]]>
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        <![CDATA[Three masters, one game, zero consensus]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[China is testing South Korea in the Yellow Sea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could it become the next big maritime flashpoint?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will the armed forces hold up Vietnam’s big reforms?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Two visions for the country will collide at a five-yearly congress]]>
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        <![CDATA[To power up growth, India must be rewired]]>
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        <![CDATA[Soon it will need as much electricity as Europe]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can Thailand rein in its “mafia monks”?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lurid scandals have rocked the country’s powerful Buddhist institutions]]>
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        <![CDATA[The teenage girl who may rule North Korea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Even her name is a matter of debate]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ethnic conflict festers on India’s eastern frontier]]>
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        <![CDATA[Manipur is a warning for the rest of the country]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why is Japan souring on foreign workers and tourists?]]>
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        <![CDATA[It is a dangerous attitude for an ageing country that needs more immigrants]]>
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        <![CDATA[Cults of personality pervade all levels of Indian politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[The focus is on individuals over institutions ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s prime minister gets booed in Bondi]]>
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        <![CDATA[His government promises gun buybacks and stricter hate laws]]>
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        <![CDATA[A fragile thaw at the top of the world]]>
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        <![CDATA[How did one airline bring Indian aviation to its knees?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why many Asian megacities are miserable places]]>
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        <![CDATA[And why Shanghai and Tokyo are not ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths]]>
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        <![CDATA[South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s defence-tech startups are thriving]]>
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        <![CDATA[The recent war with Pakistan has infused new energy into the sector]]>
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        <![CDATA[When is a Malaysian footballer not a Malaysian footballer?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country is accused of handing out passports to foreign players]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nepal’s youth toppled the government. Now they want to remake it]]>
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        <![CDATA[An infusion of fresh faces, ideas and energy could help pull the country out of its economic stupor]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet the road-building, Muslim-baiting monk who could rule India]]>
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        <![CDATA[Some see the leader of India’s biggest state as a visionary. Others fear him]]>
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        <![CDATA[To glimpse Indonesia’s future, look to its president’s view of the past]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Prabowo Subianto is rehabilitating the late Suharto ]]>
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        <![CDATA[How will Japan’s defences evolve under its hawkish new leader?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae wants bigger budgets, better spooks and a stronger arms industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[The politicians protecting huge criminal networks]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries]]>
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        <![CDATA[Might a female prime minister break a long-standing taboo on entering the ring? Don’t count on it]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asia’s most treacherous sailing season]]>
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        <![CDATA[Rohingya refugees are risking their lives in perilous sea crossings. Some do not make it]]>
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        <![CDATA[Which is India’s superstar state?]]>
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        <![CDATA[We pit two heavyweights against each other]]>
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        <![CDATA[Kerala can teach India a thing or two about social welfare]]>
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        <![CDATA[But it also has plenty to learn about economic dynamism]]>
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        <![CDATA[A bombing in Delhi raises tensions in the region]]>
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        <![CDATA[But India’s restrained response suggests that is little immediate risk of hostilities with Pakistan]]>
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        <![CDATA[South Korea’s new president is fixing relations with America, Japan and China]]>
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        <![CDATA[A refreshing burst of pragmatism after a turbulent time]]>
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        <![CDATA[Queen Sirikit’s death shows changing Thai views of the monarchy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Her mercurial son, as king, does not help]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indonesia raids its rainy-day pot]]>
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        <![CDATA[And foreign investors head for the airport]]>
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        <![CDATA[America and China circle each other in the South China Sea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Naval tensions around Scarborough shoal are at their highest in years]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s women win the cricket World Cup]]>
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        <![CDATA[Their victory is a welcome boost for women’s sport—and for Indian women in general]]>
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        <![CDATA[South Asia’s water wars ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Climate change and rising energy demand could worsen conflict over rivers]]>
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        <![CDATA[How East Asian pop culture is inspiring Gen Z protests]]>
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        <![CDATA[K-pop and anime are the sound and symbols of the resistance]]>
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        <![CDATA[At long last, Timor-Leste joins ASEAN]]>
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        <![CDATA[The president hopes membership will boost the economy]]>
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        <![CDATA[What a popular murderer reveals about Japan]]>
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        <![CDATA[There is surprising sympathy for political violence in the country]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asia adapts to Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy]]>
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        <![CDATA[But it is paying a high price for continued uncertainty]]>
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        <![CDATA[America and Britain target Asia’s sprawling scam industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[That alone will not halt the rise of online fraud]]>
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        <![CDATA[How to win prizes and lose influence]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s president pushes for a peace conference in Malaysia ]]>
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        <![CDATA[What is Taiwan’s plan B?]]>
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        <![CDATA[It is starting to hedge against the risk that America abandons it]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s poorest and youngest electorate prepares for polls]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elections in Bihar illuminate much of what holds India back]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae becomes Japan’s first female prime minister]]>
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        <![CDATA[Hawkish on security policy, dovish on fiscal policy and traditionalist on social policy, she will move her country to the right]]>
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        <![CDATA[The leader of the cult-like Moonies is engulfed in scandal]]>
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        <![CDATA[Han Hak-ja, the “True Mother” of the controversial Unification Church, faces bribery charges in South Korea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems]]>
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        <![CDATA[Politicians are at loggerheads over how to remember the past ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae’s path to power in Japan grows more complex]]>
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        <![CDATA[The break-up of the long-time ruling coalition dents her ambitions]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s ambitious new push to counter China]]>
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        <![CDATA[It has signed the first new military alliance in Asia since the cold war]]>
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        <![CDATA[Border clashes erupt between Pakistan and Afghanistan—again]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pakistan blames terrorists in Afghanistan for surging violence in the country]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s bankruptcy laws are hobbling the country]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can a raft of changes help?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet Japan’s “Fireball”, Takaichi Sanae, its polarising new leader]]>
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        <![CDATA[The heavy metal aficionado is a fan of Margaret Thatcher]]>
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        <![CDATA[What rich Indians fear]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will this experiment fix India’s Silicon Valley?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Bangalore’s example of local governance could be copied by other Indian cities]]>
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        <![CDATA[The global gold boom’s $150bn final frontier: Pakistan]]>
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        <![CDATA[Victory for Japan’s polarising Iron Lady, Takaichi Sanae]]>
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        <![CDATA[A hardline right-winger is set to become prime minister]]>
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        <![CDATA[Essential India Newsletter: What Britain can learn from Aadhaar]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s post-China hangover]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country grew rich on Chinese demand. Now it must find a new model for growth]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japanese politics heats up]]>
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        <![CDATA[It could get its youngest prime minister, or its first female one]]>
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        <![CDATA[South-East Asia is being swamped with Chinese goods]]>
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        <![CDATA[It is adding to the pain from Trump’s tariffs]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India strike a deal on Russian oil to appease America?]]>
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        <![CDATA[It could help halt the downward spiral in relations between the two countries]]>
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        <![CDATA[Women’s cricket in India is taking off]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite being neglected]]>
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        <![CDATA[Takaichi Sanae, the hardline nationalist who may soon lead Japan]]>
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        <![CDATA[She would be the country’s first woman prime minister—and pull its politics sharply to the right]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asian countries are nabbing a lot more foreign students]]>
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        <![CDATA[Degrees from East Asia are cheap, and growing more prestigious]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world’s most persecuted people]]>
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        <![CDATA[Dumb ideas are worsening the Rohingyas’ dire plight]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indian cities have a devilish animal problem]]>
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        <![CDATA[Not everyone wants it fixed]]>
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        <![CDATA[Would you shelter under Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Saudi Arabia rolls the dice]]>
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        <![CDATA[A rare ceremony revives debate over imperial succession]]>
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        <![CDATA[Right-wingers remain vehemently opposed to female emperors]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet Thailand’s karaoke-crooning prime minister]]>
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        <![CDATA[He is the country’s third leader in two years]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sri Lanka’s mass graves need proper investigation]]>
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        <![CDATA[The recent past was vicious and ugly, but the country must face up to it]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asian countries should prepare for a higher rate of twin births]]>
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        <![CDATA[It could set back progress keeping mothers and newborns safe]]>
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        <![CDATA[AI is erupting in India]]>
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        <![CDATA[American firms are piling on users—and sucking up mountains of data]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Economist is hiring an Asia correspondent]]>
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        <![CDATA[Join The Economist’s Foreign Department]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world’s most powerful volunteers]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s Hindu-nationalist RSS has turned 100 years old]]>
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        <![CDATA[Huge demonstrations bring down Nepal’s government]]>
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        <![CDATA[The upheaval brings much uncertainty]]>
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        <![CDATA[A giant “knife-fight” in the Pacific ]]>
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        <![CDATA[America, Australia and China battle for influence among the island states]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s new leadership struggle is far from business as usual ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The exit of Ishiba comes amid political and trade turmoil ]]>
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        <![CDATA[A lesson in Trump-charming ]]>
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        <![CDATA[South Korea’s new president avoids a Zelensky moment in the White House]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sri Lanka is still reeling from its economic collapse]]>
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        <![CDATA[And its new government’s honeymoon may be ending]]>
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        <![CDATA[India is retiring its most celebrated warplane ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The MiG-21 served in every Indian war for 50 years. It leaves a big gap]]>
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        <![CDATA[Protests test Indonesia’s democracy  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[How will President Prabowo deal with dissent and discontent? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[A defining test looms for India ]]>
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        <![CDATA[It is rethinking its relationship with America. The ramifications will be huge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will a harsher world accelerate India’s reforms?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi needs a new approach after Donald Trump’s tariffs]]>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: the Indian consumer]]>
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        <![CDATA[Low inflation, tax cuts and falling interest rates will boost an economy hit by tariffs]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s government bans fantasy sports games]]>
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        <![CDATA[Heavy-handed regulation of a flourishing industry could backfire]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world is learning to live with the Taliban]]>
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        <![CDATA[Four years after the fall of Kabul, governments are quietly recognising the insurgents]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism]]>
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        <![CDATA[It is helping the West but wants arms and intelligence in return]]>
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        <![CDATA[How fair are India’s elections?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi, an opposition leader, raises some uncomfortable questions ]]>
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        <![CDATA[TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan storms back into the chip wars]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country used to be a semiconductor powerhouse. Can it be one again?]]>
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        <![CDATA[What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines]]>
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        <![CDATA[She could be the front-runner for the election in 2028]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indonesia’s new president has daddy issues]]>
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        <![CDATA[Prabowo Subianto wants to imitate his father. Good luck with that]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s biggest ask in Asia]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elbridge Colby and others push allies to ramp up defence spending]]>
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        <![CDATA[Cow’s milk, as well as Russian oil, fuels the US-India trade war]]>
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        <![CDATA[There is another liquid the two sides cannot agree on]]>
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        <![CDATA[Islamist parties are gaining ground in Malaysia]]>
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        <![CDATA[Religious attitudes are hardening—particularly among the young]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nuclear nightmares are back]]>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi and Donald Trump go head-to-head]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pakistan’s army chief is cosying up to Donald Trump]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why did Thailand and Cambodia fight a senseless border war?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Indians suffer from a colonial mindset]]>
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        <![CDATA[The overbearing role of the state has never been challenged]]>
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        <![CDATA[South Asian women will be hurt by the trade war]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs]]>
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        <![CDATA[South-East Asia makes an AI power grab]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Thai fighter jets have attacked Cambodia]]>
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        <![CDATA[Modern warfare at ancient temples]]>
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        <![CDATA[“Gated communities” are flourishing in India]]>
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        <![CDATA[Conservationists have rescued the world’s last truly wild horse]]>
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        <![CDATA[The takhi has never been tamed]]>
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        <![CDATA[“Bangla Teslas” give Musk a run for his money]]>
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        <![CDATA[E-rickshaws are overrunning Bangladeshi cities]]>
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        <![CDATA[The new private jet pecking order]]>
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        <![CDATA[In oligarchic aviation China has just fallen behind India]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ishiba Shigeru’s premiership is crumbling]]>
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        <![CDATA[Tamaki Yuichiro, Japan’s populist upstart who wants to be prime minister]]>
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        <![CDATA[The energetic leader is tapping into young people’s frustration and shaking up the country’s politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to Asia’s secret Silicon island]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meet the most important voice in Australian foreign policy]]>
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        <![CDATA[How did Pakistan shoot down India’s fighter jets?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s politics is entering a messy new era]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ahead of the Upper House elections, bond markets shudder]]>
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        <![CDATA[Mahathir Mohamad, the leader who transformed Malaysia, turns 100]]>
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        <![CDATA[Osaka’s World Expo is winning over grumpy Japanese]]>
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        <![CDATA[How to ease pollution, gridlock and honking on India’s roads]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country’s elites won’t like it]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is Thailand heading for another coup?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The generals would be mad to try]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s mushroom murderess is found guilty]]>
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        <![CDATA[The trial, with a plot stranger than detective fiction, has gripped the country]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Economist is hiring a Seoul-based researcher/reporter]]>
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        <![CDATA[Central Asia still has a complex relationship with Russia]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to North Korea’s Benidorm]]>
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        <![CDATA[The hermit kingdom’s new resort is for its own enjoyment, not foreigners’]]>
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        <![CDATA[Thailand’s prime minister has been suspended]]>
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        <![CDATA[China’s bid to influence the Philippines heats up]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why all Indians are rule-breakers]]>
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        <![CDATA[Because the state makes it impossible not to be]]>
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        <![CDATA[A big mistake by Bangladesh]]>
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        <![CDATA[Retribution is vying with reform]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could Trump can AUKUS?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can South Korea’s new president get his country back on track?]]>
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        <![CDATA[They impose big costs on both societies ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why India has so many snakebites]]>
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        <![CDATA[And what to do about it]]>
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        <![CDATA[A White House love-in for Pakistan’s big man outrages India]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can you pass the toughest tests in the world?]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s tragic crash comes amid a rapid expansion of air travel]]>
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        <![CDATA[An Air India jet to London came down moments after take-off]]>
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        <![CDATA[If China invaded Taiwan, who would enter the war?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan and the Philippines would struggle to stay out. But what about the rest?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Fading Modi-momentum ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The BJP’s appetite for bold reforms has waned]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India be an AI winner?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country has a lot of work to do to lead the sector]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India really innovate?]]>
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        <![CDATA[It has won the iPhone wars. What next? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The mystery of China’s missing military]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why the PLA has ducked a brawl with America ]]>
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        <![CDATA[China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar]]>
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        <![CDATA[It didn’t create the civil war. But it is playing both sides ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The real reason Indians are lost]]>
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        <![CDATA[A dodgy address system means delays that cost billions of dollars a year]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India create its own Ivy League? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Jae-myung is South Korea’s next president]]>
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        <![CDATA[What will the left-winger mean for the country?]]>
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        <![CDATA[There is an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, America warns ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pete Hegseth says a war would be devastating for the world]]>
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        <![CDATA[China calls the shots in Myanmar’s civil war]]>
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        <![CDATA[Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better]]>
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        <![CDATA[Fewer Chinese are forced to come, but more workers are coming by choice]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can India be cool?]]>
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        <![CDATA[India must both promote and prepare for a surge in air-conditioners]]>
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        <![CDATA[Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat]]>
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        <![CDATA[Better infrastructure and higher incomes, but also greater segregation and discrimination]]>
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        <![CDATA[If India chokes less, it will fry more]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pollution may have shielded it from the worst of global warming. That will change]]>
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        <![CDATA[Vietnam’s diaspora is shaping the country their parents fled]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s new ship-killer missiles come to the Philippines]]>
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        <![CDATA[How to fix India’s sclerotic justice system]]>
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        <![CDATA[After the revolution, Bangladesh is hoping to reform]]>
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        <![CDATA[Prabowo Subianto’s economic policy is weakening Indonesia]]>
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