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65.5m adolescent girls, women in Asia suffer Anaemia annually: Experts 

Anaemia remains a major outcome of undernutrition, particularly in South Asia and the ASEAN region, where 27% of women in this demographic are affected, resulting in over 47 million new cases each...

Karishma Vaswani. Sketch: TBS

Behind the rise of the Asian aunty

President Xi Jinping and then-President Donald Trump in Beijing in 2017.Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Asia's 2025 will be a year of upheaval and uncertainty

In a departure from the status quo under Fed Chair Jerome Powell, market expectations and the Fed’s interest-rate trajectory are converging. Photo: Reuters

Dollar set for big weekly gain as Powell sends yields up, China data mixed

China Railway workers assemble a pipe jacking machine at the construction site of an underground railway station, in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 17, 2024. REUTERS

IMF warns of risks to Asia's economy as trade tensions, soft China growth bite

Rescue workers pull a boat loaded with relief supplies to distribute among flood-affected people in Feni, Bangladesh on 25 August. Photo: Reuters

Extreme floods across Asia reflect a growing pattern of uncertainty 

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What will US interest rate cuts mean for Asia and the Pacific?

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Rida Khan becomes Miss Asian International 2024

Tourists hold umbrellas to shelter themselves from the sun as they walk near the Colosseum amid a heatwave in Rome, Italy, June 20, 2024. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Extreme heat kills hundreds, millions more sweltering worldwide as summer begins

A worker stands on a bank on the Huangpu River near the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song/ file photo

In the market: In Asia, people ask, how do I derisk from America?

Asian markets fall after US data dent rate cut hopes

Asian markets fall after US data dent rate cut hopes

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Asia stocks weaken on the patient approach to rate cuts

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Asian markets track Wall St records after US inflation data