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Rio Times · Asia Intelligence Brief September 30, 2026 — China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.1 and the private RatingDog reading hit 52.1, a five-month high; Seoul demanded North Korea stop border fortification work and Pyongyang answered through KCNA, calling the mine investigation a farce; the UN Command found an armistice violation; Beijing accused Taipei of desecrating the martyrs; the Nikkei rose 2.1 per cent inside a 4.7-per-cent quarterly fall while the CSI 300 closed its worst quarter since the pandemic. The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. What Trump and Xi revealed in the body language with their wives 2. Australia just changed its visa rules. So what about its bespoke Hong Kong pathway? 3. Thailand has had enough of foreign tourists behaving badly 4. Why US chip controls took a back seat at the Xi-Trump summit 5. Chinese...

Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, 25 September 2026 Ceremonial guards in Bangkok. Thailand spent the week under a rain warning covering forty-eight provinces while its election commission was picketed from the reformist left and the nationalist… The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 A crude tanker passing storage tanks at an oil terminal. Saudi Arabia offered extra cargoes to Asian refiners through ship-to-ship transfers off Oman’s Sohar port, and Brent settled… The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Asian Games organisers in Japan accidently play North Korea's anthem ahead of South's hockey match with Bangladesh.

Severe weather disruptions will amplify food security risks in Asia, potentially triggering civil unrest and political instability in vulnerable countries such as India, Indonesia and the Philippines, according to consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. The warning comes as the war in Iran has already disrupted fuel and fertiliser supplies, both of which are key agricultural inputs. Now, weather extremes linked to a powerful El Nino are further threatening crops across the region. Indonesia, the world’s...

Despite finding violation of norms, Court declined to order fresh selection at this last stage as it could prejudice India’s participation in the surfing competition

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Brics members find common ground on AI, trade and de-dollarisation push 2. China urges US to ‘stop all’ spying activities, slams ‘gangster logic’ 3. Police freeze HK$30 million in account of man who refused to share Mark Six prize 4. India-Pakistan water row deepens after Hague court ruling 5....

Rio Times · Asia Intelligence Brief September 13, 2026 Asia Intelligence Brief — Sunday, September 13, 2026 Key Facts The declaration. BRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration on the opening day of their summit in India's capital, with Narendra Modi pressing for equal participation in global rule-making and Security Council reform. The reset. Modi and Xi Jinping used the summit to pursue a reset of India–China ties. The ferries. The Philippine ferry fire's toll rose to seventy-six dead with thirteen unaccounted for by Sunday. The capsize. A ferry capsized off Java in bad weather; CNA reports six dead and more than one hundred twenty missing. The rerouting. More South Korean semiconductors now reach American buyers through Southeast Asian plants than through China, a Bank of Korea report finds. The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Sunday, September 13, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

An unusually active typhoon season is disrupting shipping operations across Asia, with Shanghai particularly hard hit by snarled traffic and vessel delays.

The South China Morning Post has signed an agreement with a leading university in Kazakhstan to foster the exchange of knowledge between East and Central Asia while extending Hong Kong’s media presence in the region. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed on Monday in Astana, just ahead of the SCMP’s China Conference: Central Asia 2026, a flagship event making its debut in the region. According to the agreement, the strategic partnership formalises links between the SCMP and Nazarbayev...

Even as rescuers search for the thousands still missing in Nepal after catastrophic flooding that killed 1,250 people, the nation’s leaders face a second immense challenge – how to pay for recovery and rebuilding. The tab is expected to come to at least US$5 billion, an enormous sum for one of Asia’s poorest countries, and the fund it is hoping to tap is new, underfunded and untested. Nepal is seeking compensation for climate change-related damages from a United Nations fund set up to help...