Devjyot Ghoshal

Brian Jeong remembers the frenzy that swept through South Korea this time last year.

In 2017, many months before its merger with Uber made it Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing app, Grab realized it had a “rendezvous” problem.

It’s taken a while, but South Korea now has a fintech unicorn.

Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes an extraordinary journey by road, air, and sea.

Lee Seung-gun cut his teeth as a dentist before realizing his dream was to be an entrepreneur. So, eight years ago, he put down his drill and jumped into business. There were teething troubles: his initial eight attempts, all mobile services companies, ended in failure.

The “Kimchi premium” is a term cryptocurrency investors use to describe the delicious spread in prices between foreign exchanges and the once-superheated South Korean market. But following a government crackdown, the spread has turned so unpalatable that the country’s cryptocurrency exchanges have a new plan: get the hell out.

Zebpay, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is shutting shop.

Over five years after two Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) graduates set up Ather Energy to build India’s first smart electric scooter, the Ather 340 is finally ready to hit the road.

The Narendra Modi government is trying hard to disprove the charges of jobless economic growth during its tenure.

The future may still be electric for Maruti Suzuki, but getting there might involve a liberal dose of compressed natural gas (CNG).

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Wuhan for a summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping has been preceded by much VIP air traffic between Beijing and New Delhi.

In May 2015, about one year before the Philippines went to the polls that brought Rodrigo Duterte to power, Alexander Nix showed up at Manila’s National Press Club.

In the tumultuous months after protests and riots wracked Jakarta, bringing down Indonesian president Haji Muhammad Suharto in May 1998, a British political consultancy arrived on the scene.

More than 100 election campaigns in over 30 countries spanning five continents.

On March 17, 1959, a 23-year-old Buddhist monk disguised as a soldier fled Tibet, travelling for three weeks across the Himalayas before reaching the border with India. Since then, the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, has run a government-in-exile from India, which is also home to some 95,000 Tibetan refugees.

An ambitious new partnership between two Japanese carmakers could be the biggest disruption to hit India’s electric vehicles (EV) market.

The Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest carmaker, is a sprawling 600-acre facility near Gurugram on the outskirts of Delhi, which churns out 3,100 automobiles every day like clockwork.

The skirmish began earlier this week, when Pakistan’s prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, attacked India in his speech at the UN general assembly (UNGA). India fired back immediately, describing its western neighbor as “terroristan.” But the real rebuke came—as it had to—from India’s foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, during her speech at the UNGA on Saturday (Sept. 23).

Come prepared—very well prepared. And be brief—very brief.

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Everyone expected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to hit back after US president Donald Trump yesterday called his government a “corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy.”

In his 40-odd minutes at the podium at the UN general assembly today (Sept. 19), US president Donald Trump threatened North Korea, railed at Iran and warned Venezuela. And that wasn’t all.

New UN secretary general António Guterres’ first General Assembly speech resembled some tentative steps in a dance with the event’s headline attendee, Donald Trump.

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