• Oct 4, 2019
  • 8 min read

Central Asian states face high climate change risks

A fragile environment where dry steppes depend on mountain glaciers will be hard hit by rising temperatures

Central Asia
  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 2 min read

US tariffs leave EU businesses facing uncertainty

The United States has gained authorisation to impose tariffs on European goods from October 18

United States
  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 7 min read

Indonesia-Malaysia ties will strengthen despite spats

Relations have been strained over issues such as transboundary haze, but the countries have common cause over palm oil

Indonesia
  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 2 min read

Trade deal offers win for Trump and relief for Abe

Japan and the United States have signed a bilateral trade agreement

Japan
  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 2 min read

Russian probe into Siberia fires will focus on logging

Prosecutors are to investigate Siberian forest fires and suspicions the devastation covered up illegal logging

Russia
  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 2 min read

Brazil's Bolsonaro bombast will fan Amazonia pushback

The president made an incendiary speech at the UN General Assembly yesterday fanning the flames of deforestation fears

Brazil
  • Sep 20, 2019
  • 8 min read

Nigerian government will double down on autarky drive

The government has effectively shut the border with two neighbours amid failing self-sufficiency targets

Nigeria
  • Sep 19, 2019
  • 7 min read

Aggressive Brazilian foreign policy risks isolation

Brazil's aggressive foreign policy stance will reduce its regional influence and may make it more dependent on China

Brazil