Category: Asia Economy
Weed killer – Indian stoners face a moral crusade | Asia
ONE MIGHT expect India to be at peace with marijuana. Before time it [...]
Hermit kingdom – North Korea is lonelier than ever | Asia
IT WAS SATURDAY morning on the Korean peninsula and Friday evening i [...]
Labour day – A hard task ahead for Jacinda Ardern’s new government | Asia
EVERYONE KNEW that the Labour Party would win. But even its leader, [...]
Banyan – The pandemic has exposed South-East Asia’s poor governance | Asia
Oct 24th 2020IT HARDLY FOLLOWED the script intended by Thailand’s ar [...]
Anti-social network – In Myanmar, Facebook struggles with a deluge of disinformation | Asia
MG MG KYAW can still remember the day he got his first mobile phone. [...]
Painting the country red – Jacinda Ardern’s quiet competence triumphs in New Zealand | Asia
By making voters feel proud, she has led the Labour party to the big [...]
Land of land-grabs – A crackdown in Bangladesh reveals corruption on a daunting scale | Asia
Oct 17th 2020IN FARIDPUR, A small provincial town in Bangladesh, it [...]
Land of land-grabs – A crackdown in Bangladesh reveals corruption on a daunting scale | Asia
Oct 15th 2020IN FARIDPUR, A small provincial town in Bangladesh, it [...]
Banyan – How not to reform Indonesia | Asia
Oct 15th 2020ONCE UPON a time, a slight, upstanding, mild-mannered p [...]
Cradle to desk – South Korea wants mothers to work, to bolster the labour force | Asia
SHIN JOO-HEE learned to cook at the age of 39, while his wife was pr [...]