Economy

A pattern of tightening market controls and soaring prices has culminated in an ambitious government intervention – a comprehensive plan to regulate the grain trade.

The South Korea-U.S. economic partnership stands at a crossroads now that Trump is occupying the White House.

China is modernizing its economic statecraft, mirroring Washington’s approach. How might Beijing leverage these evolving policy tools to navigate the ongoing trade and tech wars?

The project is intended to bring together Malaysia's land and labor with Singaporean finance and investment.

The framework would divide the world into AI “haves” and “have nots,” based on nations' willingness to align with the U.S. against China.

DeepSeek’s success is not based on outperforming its U.S. counterparts, but on delivering similar results at significantly lower costs. The AI price war has begun.

The planned high-speed line, which will connect Bangkok to China via Laos, has seen sluggish progress since construction began in 2017.

A Chinese AI model is now as good as leading U.S. AI models, using only a tiny fraction of GPU resources available. This is a gamechanger for the global AI arms race.

The slowdown should be a wake-up call for the government to take remedial action, especially to address weakness on the demand side.

At the 2025 World Economic Forum, Mongolia’s delegation pursued opportunities to attract investment in all things AI.

The hydropower project in Kyrgyzstan has tapped into the region’s thirst for cooperation.

The onetime boom-town has struggled to adapt to domestic policy shifts, anti-fraud campaigns, and the escalating civil war across the border in Myanmar.