Asia
Every Magna Bureau story on asia: 14 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out — Magna Bureau
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up:… — Magna Bureau
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%. TSMC's most advanced lines are full, its Arizona bet has swollen to $265 billion — and the AI chip shortage now looks like a
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise. Both navies blame each
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb — Magna Bureau
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Was
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting — Magna Bureau
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 — and this is what the end of an oil empir
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in… — Magna Bureau
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto…
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of…
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack deal…
A BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data centers for up to $25B — the biggest bet yet that AI's…
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers… — Magna Bureau
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret — Magna Bureau
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Kore
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October — Magna Bureau
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning