India’s influence today extends well beyond South Asia. Its economic gravity increasingly shapes outcomes across West Asia, ...

A painting of the First Battle of Panipat, which was fought between the invading forces of Babur against Ibrahim Khan Lodi, the Sultan of Delhi, in Panipat, north India, on April 21, 1526, shows the ...

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SOUTH Asia stands on the frontier of the climate crisis, and on the edge of its own undoing. Home to nearly two billion people, this region is sandwiched between geopolitical rivalry and ecological ...

Three incidents in one week: a detained traveller in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, reveal a South Asia where small symbols now carry the weight of territorial ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese trade myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese exports to south-east Asia are growing at almost twice the rate of the past four years, as Donald Trump’s ...

Lowy 2025 Index shows region where middle powers drive next phase of strategic change Asia’s transformation is not defined by a simple narrative of American decline or Chinese ascent. Instead, it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the ...

Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been flooded after cyclones dumped torrential rain for a week. More than 400 people have been killed across the region, along with another 123 in ...

WHEN people talk about South Asia, they reach for the usual clichés: nuclear flashpoint, poverty, migration, communal tensions. What they rarely acknowledge is something far more hopeful — this region ...

Google Maps is hoping that an upcoming decision by South Korea’s government will finally open the door to the only advanced democracy in the world where its service is still not fully functional.

RARELY CALM, the cross-border politics of South Asia’s great rivers have been roiling of late. In late October Afghanistan revealed plans to build dams on the Kabul river, rankling Pakistan, with ...