Krishna Srinivasan (Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF) Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work ...

More than 20 earthquakes have hit central and southeast Asia in the last 24 hours, with one of the most powerful in 75 years ...

You see in some of Kyoko's washi art, the paper is full of past presences. Old paper is more beautiful — it retains traces and stories. Both Karen and I love the line: "A blank page is never empty." ...

John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung ... One U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was operating in Western Pacific waters this week while a carrier strike group belonging ...

Singapore's next parliament will also have 97 seats, up from the current 93. On the electoral map changes, Dr Janil said: "What we do know and what we can see, it's about the population growth.

Singapore will have five new Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and six new Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) in the 2025 General Election, part of sweeping changes laid out in the ...

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, Jotham Napat, ordered the cancellation of fugitive businessman Lalit Modi ...

All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India ...

Workers on Guam who have kept the invasive brown tree snake out of Hawaiʻi were recently spared from losing their jobs in a federal cut — but are now being forced from the facilities where they work.

Singaporean artist Dawn Ng's multi-channel video installation, currently on display as part of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA ...

Chalinee Thirasupa/ Reuters In February 2025, China expanded its influence in the Indo-Pacific through diplomatic outreach, infrastructure investment, and coordinated security efforts—hosting ...

Each month, ACLED’s Asia Pacific Team collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events in the region. Details ...