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China's tungsten grip tightens, and US scrap flows reroute toward Tokyo

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 7 min

Taiwan fires US-supplied HIMARS into the Strait as opposition warns Taipei is being treated as a 'pawn'

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Taiwan fires US-made mobile launchers at China for the first time, as cross-strait signalling intensifies

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

Ramos-Horta takes the stage as Nikkei's Future of Asia confronts a region rewriting its own rules

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Manila reaches for a sea border with Tokyo, and the South China Sea calculus shifts

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

Deadly week in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir tests the line between insurgency and protest

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Pakistan strikes Afghan border region, ending a months-long lull

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Pakistan's Airstrikes in Afghanistan and the Strait of Hormuz Risk: Two Fronts of a Widening South-Asian Crisis

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Pakistan strikes inside Afghanistan kill 13, Taliban says, as cross-border tensions reopen

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan raise the cost of a long-running border standoff

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

Nintendo shares slide after Direct lineup leans on legacy ports

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Meta's Reliance deal hands India's AI build to the country's largest conglomerate — and asks harder questions of every Western platform trying to follow

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Pyongyang walks out of the Beijing summit with the bigger headline

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Tungsten Scrap, Tencent Debt, and a Yen Stablecoin: Japan and China Recalibrate the Industrial Stack

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Three India stories in one afternoon: a city drain, a crash anniversary, a building fire

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Beijing’s AI anxiety: PLA flags sycophancy risk as robotics push accelerates

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Pyongyang pact and a PPI surprise: two reads on China's strategic posture

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

A year after the Ahmedabad crash, the questions and the deposit math India can't avoid

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a two-day bet on leverage, not alliance

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Xi's Pyongyang return resets the China–North Korea ledger — and tests Washington's patience

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Toyota backs Tier IV in self-driving push, betting that capital and code travel together

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Pakistan-administered Kashmir jolted by trader killing and banned-group protests

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Pentagon adds BYD, Baidu, Alibaba to list of companies accused of working with China's military

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 7 min

Pentagon's China military list lands without a press conference — and the questions it leaves open

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 7 min

Japan moves to defend its seed and sky ambitions as two industries stake out a post-agrarian future

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

Rural Japan bets on the domestic tourist as the yen keeps overseas trips out of reach

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Tokyo's $480bn Cash Pile and Tehran's Travel Cage: Two Faces of a Multipolar Week

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 7 min

Israeli strikes in Lebanon puncture the Trump timeline for an Iran deal

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min

Two moves, one signal: Indonesia tightens as Hanwha anchors the first fully onshore US solar chain

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

China's footprint inside Western defence supply chains is widening — and the West is only now beginning to price it

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

China's electric SUV boom is a contradiction Beijing cannot outrun

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

China's EV charge and export surge: two data points, one industrial story

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

China's car market just had its worst May in years — and the EV transition isn't the only thing straining

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

BYD's 80% China EV forecast lands as exports jump 19% in May

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Bangladesh's power glut is now a fiscal problem, not an engineering one

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Algeria's two-sea missile drill and China's thorium milestone point to a quieter kind of contest

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Xi in Pyongyang: A Visit That Tilts the Asian Balance

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Xi's Pyongyang visit recasts the China–North Korea axis as a counter-hegemonic signal

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang: a state visit that rewrites the optics of the China–DPRK axis

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Xi lands in Pyongyang: a calibrated signal, not a realignment

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

South Korea's 24-hour stress test, in four signals

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Seoul's chip-led rally is unwinding, and Lee's growth pitch now has to compete with the tape

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

South Korea's leveraged rally and the base beneath it

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Asia · 6 min

Rare earths to Japan, beef to Australia: the parallel squeeze

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Pentagon names BYD, Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese-military collaborators — a list with a four-month backstory

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Pyongyang's war ledger: how North Korea's Ukraine windfall reshapes the China–Russia triangle

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

KOSPI halts after 8% open drop, testing the substrate under Korea's semiconductor model

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Through Islamabad's back channel: Iran says US talks narrowing in on final text

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 6 min

Tehran–Washington talks inch forward via Islamabad, but no final text yet

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Protests test South Korea's election machinery while its startup engine hums

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Tiananmen in 2026: The Cost of Enforced Forgetting

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 7 min

Pyongyang sets the floor: Kim Yo Jong tells Xi the nuclear programme is 'absolutely non-negotiable'

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Asia · 6 min

Korea's leveraged retail boom hits a stress test

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 7 min

China's transport-ministry maritime operation east of Taiwan reads as a signal to the Tokyo–Manila axis

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

The 80% drop: China's rare-earth squeeze on Japan, decoded

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Toyota plants two flags in motorsport: a kart factory and a hydrogen endurance racer

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Asia · 5 min

Pakistan sends its interior minister to Tehran — and the choice of courier is the story

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

China's $13 trillion fund industry gets its marching orders

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Asia · 6 min

SpaceX's China Investor Bar: When the Cap Table Becomes the Export Control

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

SpaceX's IPO shuts out Chinese and Hong Kong capital — and a $1T sell-off lands the same day

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Asia · 6 min

Japan's Palantir Moment: The Data-Sovereignty Question Tokyo Hasn't Answered

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

India posts 7.8% growth, RBI holds rates as rupee drifts to historic lows

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

China tightens the leash on viral micro dramas

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Fars News CEO publicly faults Tehran on war damage, Pakistan talks, and the Trump information war

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

North Korea Goes 'Exponential' Again. The Buildout Is the Story.

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Putin's Three-Message Brief to India: Su-57, Four Poles, and a Defence of Pakistan

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Gazprom's Single-Day SPIEF Sweep: Singapore, Serbia, Belarus in 49 Minutes

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

China warns of "unprecedented" countermeasures as Japan, Philippines tighten Taiwan coordination

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Asia · 6 min

Fire, methanol, a cabinet cheque: one day inside India's safety state

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Beijing's 4 June pressure play: Tiananmen silence, NZ travel ban, Tokyo-Manila warning

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Yen through 160 again: same playbook, same result

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Japan · 6 min

Trump calls Xi 'a good man' — the US-China register resets, briefly

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · East Asia · 5 min

Tehran's red line: Araghchi tells Pakistan Lebanon and Iran are one war

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · MENA · 6 min

South Delhi hotel fire kills 21 as building safety fails again

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Rubio defends twin US commitments: $14B Taiwan arms review and Iran war cost criticism

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Asia · 6 min

Prabowo fires free-meals chief as Indonesia's signature welfare scheme hits food-safety crisis

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

India's clean-energy build-out is outrunning the grid meant to carry it

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · South Asia · 6 min

A morning in China: services PMI, swarm drones, and a million-liked chocolate painting

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 7 min

Delhi's death traps and the aspirational economy the city refuses to police

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

BOJ's Ueda keeps the rate-hike option deliberately open

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

Anta Joins Nike and Adidas on the Sportswear Podium — Now Comes the Hard Part

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 7 min

The Aravalli in committee: what a Supreme Court panel, a 31-year wage case, and the monsoon say about how India governs

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 6 min

Zhipu AI and Minimax Chase Shanghai Listings as Beijing Rewrites the Rules of Tech Capital

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · east-asia · 5 min

Russia Issues 10 Billion Yuan in Sovereign Bonds — the Anatomy of a Sanctions Workaround

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · europe · 5 min

Rubio Confirms Khamenei Alive, But Iran's Leadership Vacuum Deepens

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East / Iran · 5 min

The Militant's Pill: How Captagon Became the Currency of Middle East Conflict

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 5 min

Nadiem Makarim Calls Indonesia Chromebook Graft Charges an 'Illusion' of Law

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Southeast Asia · 5 min

Japan's Philippines Gambit: What Tokyo's Maritime Gamble Tells Us About Asia's Strategic Realignment

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · east-asia-southeast-asia · 6 min

Indonesia's shrinking surplus signals Southeast Asia's exposure to Iran war spillover

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Asia · 4 min

Bluestar week, cow politics, and the opposition: India at a nationalist crossroads

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 6 min

India's Ladakh gambit: infrastructure, dialogue, and the long shadow of terror

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 6 min

India's Opposition Mobilises as Delhi Expands Its Western Security Partnerships

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · South Asia · 5 min

Same F-15 Pilot Confirmed Shot Down Twice as Iran Escalation Strains India's Rupee Defenses

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 5 min

China's tariff diplomacy and the scramble it is causing worldwide

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

China's AI Unicorns Turn to Shanghai for Dual Listings

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

China Faces Dual Pressure as Historic Floods Compound Strategic Oil Drawdown

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · east-asia · 5 min

Beijing's Commodity Discipline: Quota Walls and Processing Control

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Bangladesh Looks East as India Water-Sharing Deadlock Drags Into Seventh Decade

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 5 min

Anta's Beverly Hills debut: the visible edge of China's sportswear rise

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 6 min

AirTrunk's $21bn India Bet Is the Biggest Signal Yet That Asia's Digital Infrastructure Race Has a New Starting Line

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

US Strikes Iran as Israel Takes Beaufort Castle, Peace Talks Falter

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East / South Asia · 6 min

Vietnam's Digital Asset Gamble: Can Crypto Collateral Unlock SME Finance?

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Southeast Asia · 5 min

Trump Push for Fort Knox Physical Audit Puts US Gold Transparency Back on the Table

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 min

Taiwan's KMT leader begins US visit amid party defense cuts controversy

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · east-asia · 3 min

Russia's Yuan Gambit: Moscow Doubles Down on Dollar-Free Borrowing

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · russia-asia · 5 min

Lukashenko Defends Kim Jong Un, Calls North Korean Leader 'Not a Dictator'

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Japanese Scientists Engineer Enhanced Vitamin K With Potential to Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min

Japan's Nikkei Hits Record 67,000 as Market Momentum Meets Geopolitical Reckoning

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 4 min

Japan's Record Crude Reserve Drawdown Complicates Energy calculus as Storm season Opens

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · east-asia · 5 min

Iran Signals Hormuz Pressure as US Diplomatic Channels Fall Silent

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min

India's AI Frontier and the Box Office Equation

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Asia · 5 min

India's 'Cockroach' Youth Movement Takes Its grievances to the Streets

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · South Asia · 5 min

India's energy dilemma: structural reform in an era of expensive capital

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · South Asia · 4 min

India's Exam Board Confirms Cyber Gaps After Teenage Researcher Alert

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · south-asia · 2 min

From Exam Portals to Ocean Reefs: India's Youth Flexes a New Kind of Muscle

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 6 min

China's Industrial Overcapacity Spills Across Three Fronts — From Fighter Jets to Steel Mills

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

China's Panda Bond Surge and the Quiet Renminbisation of Global Finance

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

China's AI Drone Swarm Tests the Limits of US Military Dialogue

asia · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 min

Beijing's Quiet Currency Experiment Is Winning Over Global Bond Markets

asia · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 min