Torrential downpours have been battering countries across South and Southeast Asia over the past week, causing widespread damage and fatalities.

The deluge has hit 10 provinces across the country's south over the past week, with the city of Hat Yai, a business hub bordering Malaysia, recording its heaviest rainfall in 300 years - 335mm in a single day. Photos show vehicles and houses submerged in the city, while desperate residents await rescue on their rooftops.

As right-leaning governments gain power, the willingness to spend on climate mitigation or on assistance to developing countries is declining.”

Direct air cargo links reflect New Delhi’s efforts to reassert influence and could help Kabul reduce dependence on Islamabad, analysts say.

In this moment of reckoning, we—parliamentarians from some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable South Asian countries—put forward the idea of Regional Climate Multilateralism as a concrete response to that call.

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025—Growth in South Asia is projected to be robust at 6.6 percent this year —but a significant slowdown looms on the horizon. Reforms to promote trade openness and technology adoption could help the region create jobs and ...

According to the definition by the National Geographic Society, the tropics are the regions that lie either in the latitude lines 23.5 degrees North of the Equator or 23.5 degrees South of the Equator, in the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn ...

As the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unfolded last month in New York, the world bore witness to a diverse assembly of nations grappling with an array of global challenges. Among the voices that echoed through the halls of this ...

The growing intersection between geopolitics and health was underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the pressures on global health institutions worldwide. 1 Even as countries retreat into national security approaches,

Asia’s manufacturing powerhouses experienced a demand slowdown in November as US trade negotiations fail to produce significant outcomes across the exporting nations characterized by the