Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT. We start the week in Asia, where Chinese companies are reconsidering investment in offshore factories as planned US tariffs on alternative hubs and new ...

China is expected to fill a gap in aid funding to Australia's region as the Trump administration slashes US development ...

Japan records its highest temperature ever at 41.2 degrees as South Korea endures 23 nights in a row above 25 degrees.

In the past two decades, South-East Asia averaged 8.5 per cent gross domestic product growth, and foreign direct investment flow into the region grew nearly fourteen-fold. While China and the US have ...

Malaysia is hoping to become a regional leader in the digital economy, but environmental, resource and geopolitical ...

Trade frictions with China also persist. Beijing has imposed tariffs on Canadian canola and other agricultural products in response to Canada’s levies on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminium ...

In South-East Asia El Niño could also exacerbate another big problem: haze. Farmers and plantation owners often prepare for harvests by slashing and burning crops and forests. The resulting haze ...

Yet as South-East Asia grows, the relationship is shifting. In 2000, the combined GDP of the ten ASEAN members was equivalent to 30% of Japan’s in real terms; by last year, the figure was 72% ...

He also said that it is “deeply concerning” how South-East Asia remains the only nuclear weapon-free zone that is not yet formally recognised by Nuclear Weapon States through the signing and ...