The Latest Breaking News from Asia

Asia's richest man wants India to lead a green energy revolution

India's Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia, made his vast fortune betting on coal. Now he's aiming to become the world's top player in renewables by 2030 and to make his country a clean energy superpower.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 11, 2022

Oldest cooked food ever found upends the "Paleo" theory of ancient human diets

Could jazzing up dinner be human habit tens of thousands of years old?

Inverse · Dec 10, 2022

Continued losses for regional airlines

The global aviation industry is expected to finally end years of losses with a net profit of US$4.7 billion in 2023, but Asia-Pacific airlines will have to wait a lot longer for their balance sheets to recover, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Bangkok Post · Dec 9, 2022

Italy, Japan and UK to merge projects for new fighter jet by 2035

Plan announced amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions in the Asia Pacific.

Al Jazeera · Dec 9, 2022

Japan, Britain and Italy join forces on new combat jet

Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a bridge between Europe and Asia that marks Japan's first major industrial defence collaboration beyond the United States since World War Two.

Reuters · Dec 9, 2022

China seeks to tone down assertive diplomacy that ‘backfired,’ US official says

WASHINGTON — China’s assertive diplomacy in recent years has “backfired” and Beijing now seeks a more predictable relationship with the U.S. as the country’s economy slows and the government tries to loosen its strict COVID-19 curbs, the Biden administration’s top Asia official said.

Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022

AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Dec. 2-8, 2022

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022

Number of non-English speakers in U.S. soared since 1980

Major shifts in immigration from Latin America and Asia have transformed the nation's linguistic diversity.

Axios · Dec 8, 2022

U.S. says China seeks stabilized relations with Washington, in short term

China wants stabilized relations with the United States in the short term as it faces domestic economic challenges and push back in Asia to its assertive diplomacy, White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Thursday.

Reuters · Dec 8, 2022

World shares mixed ahead of U.S. jobless, inflation data

Shares are mixed in Europe and Asia ahead of the release Thursday and Friday of U.S. jobless and inflation data

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2022