Economy

The landscape near the copper and gold mine site in the Reko Diq district in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province.
Anjabai, center, has been forced to work in the fields of other farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, to pay off her debts after unseasonably heavy rains ruined most of her own soybean crop. (Photo by Nipun Prabhakar)
Big in Asia

India's distressed farmers limit Modi's leeway in Trump trade talks

Poor harvests, falling crop prices and multiplying debts fuel rural discontent

1 November 2025
Workers install solar panels at Adani Green Energy's Khavda Renewable Energy Park in Khavda, India, in April 2024.
Energy

India's solar tariffs offset subsidies, push up energy prices

Despite strong rollout, higher costs from anti-China duties weigh on uptake

30 October 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top right, delivers a virtual speech to the ASEAN-India Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 26.
International relations

Malaysia's Anwar says 'real progress' made in ASEAN-India trade deal review

With Modi attending summit virtually, experts see year-end deadline as likely to be missed

27 October 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13.
Trump tariffs

Trump says he discussed 'world of trade' with India's Modi

US president says India is 'not going to buy much oil from Russia'

22 October 2025
An employee counts Pakistani rupee notes at a bank in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Economy

Multibillion-dollar trade discrepancies put Pakistan data under IMF lens

Import-payment mismatch casts doubt on Pakistan's economic recovery claims

21 October 2025
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in August brought shoddily built homes cascading down hillsides in eastern Afghanistan. (Photo by Aga Khan Development Network)
Natural disasters

Time running out for quake-hit Afghan region as winter nears

Humanitarians aim to 'build back better' but reconstruction faces acute funding shortage

19 October 2025
For Tatsuo Yasunaga, chairman of the Japan Foreign Trade Council and chair of Mitsui & Co., it's important for Asia to show where it can contribute to what the U.S. president wants -- the revitalization of the American economy.  (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yuki Kohara)
Big in Asia

Japan's trading houses to Asia: We'll help you grow in era of Trump turmoil

Chairman of industry group touts diversified business model as partnership solution

18 October 2025
India's goods exports to the U.S. were worth $5.44 billion in September, the first full month in which a punishing 50% U.S. import tariff, one of Washington's highest, was in effect.
Trade

India's exports to US down 21% in wake of 50% tariff

Overall goods exports up by over 3% in September

16 October 2025
Saurabh Agrawal, left, chairman of Tata Capital, and Rajiv Sabharwal, managing director and CEO of Tata Capital, at a press conference announcing the company's initial public offering in Mumbai on Sept. 29.
Your Week in Asia

Tata Capital IPO, KMT leadership election, US-China port fees

Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events

12 October 2025
India slashed the tax rate on small cars from 28% to 18%. (Photo by Takanori Okabe)
Economy

Indian consumer market booms as tax cuts ease pain of Trump tariffs

Auto sales spike and e-commerce transactions surge during Hindu festival season

11 October 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, greets his British counterpart, Keir Starmer, in Mumbai on Oct. 9.
Trade

Modi and Starmer to boost trade, defense ties in wake of deal

Indian companies to invest in UK, British universities to open Indian campuses

9 October 2025
Consumer goods multinational Procter & Gamble will be leaving another South Asian country: Pakistan. (Source photos by Reuters) 
Companies

Pakistan shunned by one multinational after another as P&G also exits

American consumer giant earlier announced it will quit Bangladesh in global restructuring

9 October 2025
For decades, the Indian logistics sector has been synonymous with fragmented trucking, manual paperwork and inefficiencies that inflated costs. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP)
Technology

Indian logistics get tech overhaul to support supply chain shift

Digital changes lowering cost growth as likes of Apple look to country

8 October 2025
The Bangladesh Single Window digital platform also allows traders to obtain mandatory documents certifying that quality, health and safety standards are met.
Trade

Bangladesh customs undergoing digital overhaul to boost competitiveness

Reducing frictions seen as key ahead of end to least developed status

6 October 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13. 
Opinion

The US-India romance is over

Relationship is at risk of collapse as Washington pushes New Delhi closer to Moscow

6 October 2025
People look towards the overflowing Bagmati River following heavy rains, in Kathmandu, on Oct. 4.
Natural disasters

Heavy rains kill at least 47 in Nepal, block roads

Rescue efforts continue as communities face severe disruptions

5 October 2025
Students receive treatment at a makeshift clinic in Indonesia's Bandung on Sept. 25. They are among thousands who suffered from food poisoning after eating government-financed free school meals.
Politics

Indonesia's Prabowo plows on with free meal program despite public backlash

President says poisoning has affected only a tiny proportion of 1bn servings

3 October 2025
A cargo ship lies at dock in the port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran in late 2017. The site gave India access to landlocked Afghanistan and allowed its companies to reach energy-rich Central Asia.
Trump administration

India mulls next step in wake of US sanctions on its port project in Iran

Experts say Washington's move could rein in Delhi's ambitions in Central Asia, aid China

2 October 2025
A Reuters poll of 61 economists conducted before the Reserve Bank of India meeting expected the bank to stand pat on the repo rate for the rest of the year.
Markets

India central bank pauses amid prospects of higher growth, lower inflation

RBI's decision comes as markets watch how tax cut may 'play out' in festive season and on

1 October 2025
A man feeds his cattle in a flooded neighborhood following heavy rain in the Kheda district of the western state of Gujarat, India, on Sept. 8.
Natural disasters

India's flood response exposes cracks in system, experts warn

Two months of rain and flood disasters have killed livestock, left harvests to rot

30 September 2025
A torched vehicle stands at Patan Durbar Square following deadly anti-corruption protests in Lalitpur, Nepal, on Sept. 11.
Economy

Nepal's two days of protests inflict $177m blow on hoteliers

Autumn trekking season also hit hard with guides report mass cancellations

30 September 2025
After news broke of the court's ruling, JSW Steel shares gained 0.4%.
Business deals

India's top court approves JSW Steel's takeover of Bhushan Power and Steel

In reversal, court sites JSW's investment and its safeguarding of jobs at BPSL

26 September 2025
Legs of Japanese and Pakistani soccer players at an Asian Games match in Doha in 2006. In June, a group of 22 people from Pakistan who tried to enter Japan were caught at Osaka's Kansai Airport and deported after failing to prove they were actually members of a football team
Immigration

Illegal Pakistani migrants disguised as soccer players sent to Japan

Smugglers' innovative schemes defy crackdowns and highlight economic hardships

25 September 2025
(Nikkei montage/Source photos by Suzu Takahashi, Getty Images and Reuters)
International relations

India, EU stick to year-end trade deal goal amid Trump's tariff onslaught

Analysts see timeline as 'ambitious' but view Europe as 'cushion' to absorb tariff shocks

24 September 2025
Workers load bars onto a truck at a steel factory in Punjab, India, on Aug. 14.
Economy

Indian private sector growth slows in September on US tariff impact

Hit to expansion somewhat offset by cuts to consumption taxes

23 September 2025
Rescue workers conduct operations near the site of a recent cloudburst in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on Sept. 5. (Photo by Sajad Hameed)
Energy

India's increasing cloudbursts put Himalayan hydropower at risk

Intensifying extreme rains are damaging and disrupting key clean energy source

23 September 2025
Geetanjali Kirloskar, co-chair of the Japan Council at the Confederation of Indian Industry, speaks at the Nikkei India-Japan Economy and Investment Forum in Bengaluru on Sept. 18. (Photo by Satoshi Iwaki)
International relations

Trade wars boosting India-Japan cooperation, business lobby figure says

Drive for 'self-reliance' is growing, Confederation of Indian Industry rep tells Nikkei event

19 September 2025
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Photos

Through the Lens: Deadly floods ravage Pakistan

A selection of photos from across Asia

19 September 2025
Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, speaking during this year's May Day rally, has defied the opposition's doomsday predictions during his first year in office, but faces questions about progress on structural reforms and tackling poverty.
Policy Asia

Sri Lanka's leftist leader ditches dogma for economic pragmatism

President Dissanayake embraces private sector to stay on track with IMF bailout

19 September 2025