This Month
After a 16pc sell-off, Australian fundies are eyeing bargains in India
Major investors have shrugged off a market correction in the world’s fastest-growing economy and are looking to buy following a months-long slide.
Apple’s quiet pivot to India
The iPhone maker wants to diversify its supply chain beyond China. Can the world’s largest democracy deliver?
February
Labor wins Victorian byelection
The party’s victory in Werribee provides a boost to premier Jacinta Allan; US and India target $800b in trade, increase in military sales. How the day unfolded.
January
Quad could get surveillance role under Trump: Wong
Foreign Minister Penny Wong met other members of the Quad security dialogue in Washington, including US Security of State Marco Rubio.
North Korean secret diary reveals deadly ‘drone bait’ tactic
The written notes of a dead soldier published by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces describe the reckless ploy, along with expressions of love for Kim Jong-un.
How a $4.2 trillion fund was taken for a ride
The scandal shows how brokers and advisers exploit inside knowledge of big trades by multinationals in India’s notoriously leaky equities market.
December 2024
Manmohan Singh, leader who unleashed India’s economy, dies
The Oxford and Cambridge-educated former prime minister paved the way for the transformation of the South Asian nation’s economy.
South Korean upheaval rattles US plan to counter China
There are questions over whether a new government in Seoul might complicate Washington’s efforts under Donald Trump to counter the rise of China as a military superpower.
November 2024
‘India, not China, is the historic centre of the Asian world’
Scottish author William Dalrymple argues in his new book that Indian thinkers like Aryabhata and Brahmagupta should be as familiar to the West as Archimedes and Galileo.
India dominates cricket – and calls the shots on and off the field
In a country of 1.4 billion following the sport religiously, the BCCI knows it’s sitting on a gold mine as lucrative as Saudi oilfields.
Adani bribery case could disappear with Trump presidency
The US prosecution of the Indian billionaire has wide economic and diplomatic implications.
Trump is all power with no grand strategy
The US president-elect’s delight in being unpredictable may end up dissipating US power rather than strengthening it. Australians may come to regret that.
Accountants ramp up offshoring to bring down costs
Up to a third of staff at some of the nation’s top firms work in countries such as India and the Philippines as leaders cut costs and search for hard-to-find skills.
October 2024
Uni suspension threats for breaching student caps that are not yet law
The federal government is policing overseas student enrolments for 2025 – even though it does not have the legislation to do so.
Japan’s China paradox has lessons for Australia
Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, wants a more equal relationship with the US. That could spell trouble as Tokyo confronts the “deep threat” from China.
September 2024
Air India boss waits for 470 planes to throw down gauntlet to Qantas
Air India’s CEO and Singapore Airlines veteran Campbell Wilson says the airline wants to fly twice daily from Melbourne and Sydney, as Qantas eyes Indian expansion from Perth.
August 2024
This off-grid Himalayan walk will re-boot you from $1225 a day
Crawling not running towards the end of the year? Book this six-day trek in remote north-eastern India for a reality check, and a nature-fuelled recharge.
Push into Russia is to create a buffer zone: Zelensky
The incursion has proven Ukraine’s ability to seize the initiative and has boosted its morale, which was sapped by a failed counter-offensive last year.
July 2024
Wong calls on China to rein in North Korea
The foreign minister acknowledged that countries all around Asia are beefing up their defence capabilities in response to China’s dramatic military expansion.
India’s have-nots are expressing their displeasure
While Mumbai’s super-rich show off their wealth, a chastened Narendra Modi moves to shore up support among the poor.