Asia
Tailored solutions
How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
Lessons from a superstar exporter
Banyan
Who will become Japan’s next prime minister?
The three leading candidates offer very different visions
All change
An upset in Sri Lanka propels an outsider into power
The new president leads a party with Marxist roots
Not waving but plodding
China and Australia are beefing up their Pacific policing
In the competition to police the waves, who will win?
No country for women’s rights
The Taliban is removing every shred of freedom from women
Three years after America’s withdrawal, the situation is grim
Banyan
The private sector won’t save America’s Indo-Pacific policy
More needs to be done to repair the economic relationship with South-East Asia
Cramming culture
Private tutoring is booming across poorer parts of Asia
Governments are struggling to keep up with an educational arms race
A weakened strongman
What does Modi 3.0 look like?
India’s prime minister is 100 days into his third term. It’s not smooth sailing
Banyan
Youngsters are fleeing Japan’s once-mighty civil service
Why would anyone sane and talented work for it?
Corporate dynasties
Kim Beom-su, the billionaire founder of Kakao, faces trial
But will the tech entrepreneur be seen as “too big to jail”?
Of scams and syndicates
The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs
The story of Alice Guo provides hints about how transnational criminals operate
Machh ado about nothing
What ilish, a fish, says about India-Bangladesh relations
It is falling to pisces