As the West closes its doors, India must make staying home more attractive

   Efforts to reinforce cyber-security are not keeping pace with threats

   It’s just a pilot school, the two governments say

   The country’s army chief and de facto ruler wants to redraw the political map

   India’s wildlife-conservation success holds lessons for other environmental efforts

   But they face growing competition from China

   There are calls for more restrictions

   It needs more LNG-generated power, but isn’t ready to pay for it

   It is barring tens of millions from voting

   North Korea wants America to drop demands for disarmament

   Inflation is making matters worse

   Despite new guilty verdicts, the Catholic church thinks there is a missing mastermind

   The former prime minister is getting out of jail. But Malaysia seems headed back to the bad old days

   A breakneck expansion has bred new dysfunction and spurred young people to rebel

   Why the lucky country is striking AI paydirt

   A buffer zone has become a miserable limbo

   The country’s south-western islands go conservative

   Drones and artificial intelligence may give America an edge

   A row over GDP numbers is really about how people feel

   It is again the world’s largest producer of opium

   Could it help the country escape its middle-income trap?

   Thank modern fermentation, changing diets and pizza

   She is putting the state at the centre of Japan’s economy

   Chinese scholarship on India has grown in breadth but not depth

   They are widely ignored, flouted and sidestepped

   The breakdown of a new alliance reflects deeper problems

   Leaders stay away over debates about Taiwan’s presence

   It is woefully short of the resources and international help to cope with them

   Has Andhra Pradesh’s tech-savvy chief minister bitten off more than he can chew?

   Geoff Carr, senior editor, considers how to best prevent the harm caused by glacial avalanches

   Processing 24bn transactions a month does not come cheap

   Asia demonstrates the promise and perils of AI in the public sector

   Chinese influence among Pacific island states is in retreat

   The party finds taking on local customs and the opposition easier than fixing the economy

   Local rules prevent their construction. Hyderabad shows why that’s silly

   Despite promises of renewal, it is still an authoritarian state

   Even court orders to protect them are ignored

   The ice-age generation has been cursed several times over

   In doing so, he has further undermined trust in America’s alliances

   Nation-building is even harder the second time round

   Growing threats from enemies and a less dependable America have driven the move

   Has the region learned anything from past crises?

   Their welcome has worn thin

   The ruling party’s apparently liberal argument for making everyone marry, divorce and inherit like Hindus

   Tom Sasse, our South Asia bureau chief, on the bleak future facing the few Afghan girls still able to study

   The state is a poor representative of the country

   But Winston Peters is not going anywhere

   How long will that last?

   One of Narendra Modi’s proudest achievements is under scrutiny

   Leaders must decide how to manage a big windfall