r/asia • • 8d ago

Economy Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Rejects Criticism Around Weak Yen and High Interest Rates

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r/asia • • 4d ago

Economy What a 35-Hour Train Ride Reveals About Vietnam’s Future

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Vietnam is betting $65 billion on high-speed rail to help transform its economy. A journey on the existing line reveals the obstacles in its way.

r/asia • • Mar 05 '26

Economy China Sets Lowest GDP Growth Target for Decades as it Braces for Economic Slowdown

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r/asia • • Jul 26 '26

Economy Can Japan Avoid a Liz Truss-style Shock as its PM Embarks on a Giant Spending Spree?

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r/asia • • Jul 03 '26

Economy Traders Plot Worst-case Scenario for Japanese Yen if Currency Crisis Hits

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r/asia • • Jul 03 '26

Economy 3,000% Bonuses But a Growing Wealth Divide: South Korea Grapples with its AI Chip Boom

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r/asia • • Jun 04 '26

Economy Indonesia Rupiah Falls to Record Low Against US Dollar - The unit hit 18,028 against the greenback despite recent central bank efforts to provide support.

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r/asia • • Apr 26 '26

Economy Asia’s Billionaires Are Bankrolling a Push for More Babies

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From Hong Kong to Seoul, tycoons are offering cash and perks to boost birth rates, testing whether private wealth can succeed where governments have struggled.

r/asia • • Mar 31 '26

Economy Long Queues in Myanmar as Iran War Fuel Crisis Deepens

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r/asia • • Apr 18 '26

Economy Mumbai’s Skyline Is Soaring. So Is the Pressure on Housing

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As global businesses pour into India’s financial capital, millions of low-income residents face redevelopment deals that will determine whether they can stay.

r/asia • • Apr 29 '26

Economy Oil Price Surge May Force 40% of Japan's Firms to Cut Core Business Within Six Months

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r/asia • • Apr 11 '26

Economy India's Reverse Brain Drain Gathers Pace as Professionals Return Home

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r/asia • • Oct 04 '25

Economy Japan Unleashes Capitalism by Letting ‘Zombie’ Companies Die

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Japan is finally letting its ‘zombie’ companies die. This is how one family's agonizing decision about whether to let go allowed capitalism to take its course.

r/asia • • Mar 27 '26

Economy Malaysian Vessels Permitted to Travel Through Strait of Hormuz, Country's PM Says After Iran Talks

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r/asia • • Mar 02 '26

Economy As China's Economy Slows, Some Young People Are Snapping Up Cheap Apartments to 'Retire' Early

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r/asia • • Mar 19 '26

Economy Cambodia Turns to Singapore, Malaysia for Fuel as Vietnam, China Restrict Supplies

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r/asia • • Mar 09 '26

Economy Asian countries shut universities, ration fuel amid energy crisis sparked by Iran conflict

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r/asia • • Mar 17 '26

Economy Indonesia Weighs Response to Price Pressures from Middle East War

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r/asia • • Mar 18 '26

Economy Can India's $300 Billion Outsourcing Industry Survive AI?

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r/asia • • Mar 11 '26

Economy Why Have Malaysia's Homes Remained 'Seriously Unaffordable' for a Decade and Counting? - To reverse this, the government, developers and financial institutions must all play their part, analysts say.

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r/asia • • Feb 12 '26

Economy How Singapore's Budget Nearly Doubled in a Decade – And Where the Money's Going

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r/asia • • Jan 04 '26

Economy Japan’s ‘Dementia Money’ Is a Warning to the World

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As cognitive decline spreads among older investors, nearly half of Japan’s GDP is increasingly vulnerable to mismanagement, fraud and inactivity.

r/asia • • Jan 28 '26

Economy 'Mother of All Deals': EU and India Sign Free Trade Agreement

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r/asia • • Feb 03 '26

Economy Pushing for Trade, Preparing for War: A Document Reveals Vietnam's Dual Approach Toward the US

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r/asia • • Jan 18 '26

Economy Stargazing: India's Astrotourism Boom Draws Urban Stargazers Beyond Cities

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