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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2021
China and India agree to pull back troops near site of deadly clash
Soldiers will move away from the vicinity of the area where at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in June 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2021
With time slipping away, prospects of a climate deal at COP26 are waning
With less than three months before climate talks in Glasgow, diplomats are struggling to pull global climate policy back from the brink of disaster.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 2, 2021
Forecaster who predicted India’s COVID-19 peak sees new wave coming
Experts are concerned about complacency setting in as people resume social and business activity in the face of waning infections.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2021
Xi opens a Pandora's box with antagonism of India
Chinese aggression and the breaching of border agreements has made the rise of a more antagonistic and militarily stronger India a certainty.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 29, 2021
'No safety nets': Debts weigh on grieving Indian families
Tens of thousands of Indians are facing the triple burden of bereavement, joblessness and debt after a brutal second wave of COVID-19.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 24, 2021
Top U.S. diplomat to visit India with vaccines and China in focus
On the agenda will be COVID-19, Indo-Pacific engagement and Afghanistan's future after the U.S. troop pullout.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2021
COVID-19 may have claimed as many as 5 million lives in India
The numbers, derived from research and local authority data, range from three to 10 times the official count, hinting that the true cost of its outbreak has been massively underreported.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2021
A secretive body is making questionable COVID-19 decisions in India
As the Indian Council of Medical Research has acted as a key adviser to the government, it has drawn criticism from doctors and independent scientists.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 20, 2021
Flush with unicorns, India’s tech moment arrives
Last week marked a watershed for technology startups in India, as a record bout of fundraising shifted attention to the world's second-most populous market.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jul 15, 2021
How Japan can help tackle East Asia's coronavirus surge
By donating vaccines and sharing knowledge, Tokyo has a role to play in leading the region out of the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2021
Biden’s Afghan blunder
Joe Biden's approach entails effectively admitting that a terrorist militia has defeated the world's most powerful military, and then handing Afghanistan back to that militia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 8, 2021
India supercharged its economy 30 years ago. COVID-19 unraveled it in months.
Years, and perhaps decades, of progress have been unwound in months, as many Indians who had clawed their way out of poverty face grim job prospects.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2021
India making the right moves as it reaches out to Pakistan and the Taliban
Faced with continued Chinese aggression on India's northern frontier and a likely Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, improving relations with Pakistan seems prudent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2021
Big tech crackdown could have unintended victims
Global efforts to rein in U.S.-based social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook Inc. risk restricting democratic freedoms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
India eases route for companies to switch to green energy
Accelerating the use of clean energy in offices and factories, India's largest power-consuming segment, will be key to achieving the country's emissions goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
What inflation? Pandemic leaves emerging Asia's consumer recovery behind.
Slow vaccinations and a new wave of coronavirus infections have delayed economic recoveries in countries like Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and India.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
Big Tech is gearing up for a massive fight with Modi’s India
India is growing more assertive in its efforts to control online communications, challenging Twitter and Facebook's practices and threatening to set a precedent that could extend worldwide.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 28, 2021
India moves 50,000 troops to China border in historic pivot
Although the two countries battled in the Himalayas in 1962, India's strategic focus since the British left the subcontinent has primarily been Pakistan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2021
The young female climate activists driving change in Asia
A number of young women in the region are stepping forward to demand greater action on one of the defining issues of this generation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2021
Japan to ask athletes from India and other countries for more COVID-19 tests
The government will apply the rule to athletes from India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan from July 1 amid concerns over the delta variant of the virus.

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