NEW YORK/BANGKOK/SHANGHAI -- When 65-year-old New Yorker Vilma Kari was brutally assaulted on her way to church on March 29, the crime made headlines in her native country of the Philippines.

Politicians there, including Vice President Leni Robredo and boxing icon and Sen. Manny Pacquiao, two prospective presidential contenders, were quick to speak up after closed-circuit footage was picked up by local media. In the video, Brandon Elliot, a 38-year-old homeless man,

BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT -- Automakers from East Asia to Southeast Asia to North America are watching as the European Union seeks a de facto ban on sales of all new vehicles with internal combustion engines, including hybrids, by 2035, under a sweeping plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Commission's European Green Deal also calls for a carbon border adjustment mechanism -- a tariff on products such as steel and cement from countries with looser environmental regulations -- that would affect Asian and other suppliers that export

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.

TOKYO -- It has been a tumultuous month for the Chinese capital market. First, ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing went public on the New York Stock Exchange on June 30.

Four days later, as the U.S. was in

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

The best indicator of whether President Xi Jinping really is reducing leverage in Asia's biggest economy might not be data. It may be the skylines of China's biggest cities.

As China sets the pace for recovery from COVID-19, Beijing claims to be wringing froth out of asset markets, policing shadow-banking entities and taming local government debt.

WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. economy rebounds from the pandemic and inflation risks emerge, when and how will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates? Nikkei asked two former vice chairs, Alan Blinder and Donald Kohn.

Blinder said the outlook for the U.S. economy is strong and called on the Fed to immediately start tapering.

Kohn said that the Fed's outcome-based approach to making policy changes could leave them behind the curve.

Edited excerpts of the interview follow.

Alan Blinder says the outlook

TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- From solar panel producers to apparel retail giant Uniqlo, Japanese businesses increasingly fear a backlash over potential human rights violations at their indirect partners as the U.S. renews its warning against companies linked to forced-labor allegations in China's Xinjiang region.

American businesses that fail to exit supply chains, ventures and investment in Xinjiang "run a high risk of violating U.S. law," the State Department and five other agencies warned in an updated advisory Tuesday, hinting that even indirect

WASHINGTON -- Since the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, began shaping the so-called "first wave" of artificial intelligence in the 1960s, the U.S. has been leading the world in AI adoption.

In the ensuing five decades, AI has moved from machines carrying out human-programmed rules to statistical learning, the second wave, and now to a third wave that brings forth machines that understand and reason in context.

In future battlefields, machines will

JAKARTA -- Indonesia has overtaken India as Asia's new epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic, with daily infections exceeding 40,000 for two straight days and officials warning that the delta variant is spreading outside the most populous island of Java.

Southeast Asia's largest economy on Tuesday reported 47,899 new infections, a record high, up from 40,427 the previous day. India's cases, meanwhile, dropped to 32,906 from 3

Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

China's craving for recognition as a benevolent and generous great power is no secret.

Even though it is still a middle-income country where rural residents lack access to safe drinking water and decent health care, Beijing has dramatically increased its development assistance to poor countries in recent years. In 2019 alone, it gave out nearly $6 billion in grants, according to one