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Tech Latest
Rounding up 2024's top tech news
Welcome to the Tech Latest podcast. Hosted by our tech coverage veterans, Katey Creel and Akito Tanaka, every Tuesday we will deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector. In this special year-end episode, Katey and Akito look back at the year's top tech stories, from supply chain shifts to EVs and the AI boom, as well as predict 2025's tech trends to watch. Find our tech coverage here, and register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here. And for the Asian business, politics, economy and tech stories others miss, please subscribe to...
2024-12-24
10 min
Tech Latest
How China is dominating Asia's green transition
Welcome to the Tech Latest podcast. Hosted by our tech coverage veterans, Katey Creel and Akito Tanaka, every Tuesday we will deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector. In this episode, Akito speaks with Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li about China’s rise as a solar power king and how its dominance has not gone down well with the U.S. Check out Lauly's featured story, and register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here. Find more of our tech coverage here.And for the Asian business, politics, economy and...
2024-11-26
07 min
Tech Latest
Apple's AI server strategy in Taiwan
Welcome to the Tech Latest podcast. Hosted by our tech coverage veterans, Katey Creel and Akito Tanaka, every Tuesday we will deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector. In this episode, Akito speaks with Taipei tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting-Fang about how Apple has approached Foxconn about building artificial intelligence servers in Taiwan as the iPhone maker looks to capture a bigger share of the generative AI boom. Check out Annie's featured stories below, and register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here. -- 'Buckle up': Asia's tech industry braces for bumpy ride under Trump
2024-11-12
09 min
Tech Latest
Chinese AI giant SenseTime's chip procurement strategy
Welcome to the Tech Latest podcast. Hosted by our tech coverage veterans, Katey Creel and Akito Tanaka, every Tuesday we will deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector. In this episode, Akito speaks with Hong Kong correspondent Cissy Zhou about how China's e-commerce platforms are grappling with fallout from "no-return" refund policies, as well as AI giant SenseTime's use of Huawei and other domestic chips. Check out Cissy's featured stories below, and register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here. China's e-commerce industry pushes back on 'no-return' r...
2024-10-29
13 min
Tech Latest
Taiwan’s tech industry and government step up their climate fight
Welcome to the revamped Tech Latest podcast. Hosted by our tech coverage veterans, Katey Creel and Akito Tanaka, every Tuesday we will deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector. On today's episode, Katey speaks with Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li about how advancements in power hungry technologies like generative AI will force Taiwan’s government and tech industry to walk a tightrope with their green energy goals. Read More: Check out Lauly’s featured story here, and register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here Fi...
2024-10-22
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China e-commerce ditches low prices for sales growth
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Hong Kong correspondent Cissy Zhou and Nikkei Asia's tech editor Katey Creel, about how the heated price war among Chinese e-commerce platforms is showing signs of cooling. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com Check out Cissy's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3WT1MH4 You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ And for the Asian business, politics, economy and tech stories...
2024-08-06
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China EV giant BYD seeks growth with new Thai factory
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Bangkok correspondent Francesca Regalado, about Chinese EV maker BYD’s new Thailand factory. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com Check out Francesca's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3LmoYGT You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on X at @NikkeiAsia: https://x.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know w...
2024-07-16
06 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Japan’s auto industry faces a growing AI chip problem
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh, about how Japan’s auto industry is facing up to a growing AI chip problem. Check out Ryohtaroh's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3RWUZZQ Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on X at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get y...
2024-07-09
05 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: South Korea's migrant workers caught in lithium battery plant fire
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Seoul correspondent Steven Borowiec, about a deadly fire that broke out at a lithium-ion battery factory in South Korea last week. Check out Steven's story: https://s.nikkei.com/3zqp25M Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on X at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia...
2024-07-02
12 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China drone maker DJI battles U.S. clampdown
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks with U.S. correspondents Marrian Zhou and Yifan Yu, about Chinese tech company DJI, and how its drones have become a key tool for the U.S. police force despite Washington’s clampdown. Check out their story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3VPgxdg Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter ...
2024-06-25
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Space junk cleaner Astroscale makes Tokyo market debut
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Mitsuru Obe, chief business news correspondent in Tokyo, about some exciting developments in Japan’s space industry. Check out Mit's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/4co81Y9 Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia
2024-06-18
11 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's flying car sector ready for liftoff
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is catching up with Cissy Zhou in Hong Kong, about China’s budding flying car industry. Check out Cissy's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/45mcsk8 Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your...
2024-06-11
11 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Tesla suppliers urged to produce outside China and Taiwan
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French is talking with Taipei tech correspondents Lauly Li and Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, about Tesla’s push to encourage its suppliers to produce outside of China and Taiwan. Read Annie and Lauly's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/452q8jR You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on X at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know what you th...
2024-05-28
13 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Singapore's robotics startups go global
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking to Singapore correspondent Tsubasa Suruga, about Singapore's industrial robot startups, which are looking to expand into other Asian markets and beyond. Read Tsubasa's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3QUI4ae You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on X at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know what you thought about this episode. And for the Asian business, politics, economy and...
2024-05-21
07 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: EU carmakers confront China's growing EV dominance
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French is catching up with correspondents in London and Paris, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa and Mailys Pene-Lassus, to find out how Europe’s carmakers are responding to China’s dominance in the electric vehicle sector. Check out our story on this here: https://s.nikkei.com/4bdfybX Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter
2024-05-14
16 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Google faces antitrust crackdown in Japan
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about Japan’s antitrust actions against tech titan Google. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know what you thought about this episode. And for the Asian business, politics, economy and tech stories others miss,
2024-04-30
05 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Samsung workers threaten biggest ever union action
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Seoul correspondent Kim Jaewon, about how tech giant Samsung could be facing its first ever workers’ union strike in South Korea. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know what you thought about this episode. And for the Asia...
2024-04-23
05 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Taiwan earthquake proves chip industry’s resilience
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking with tech correspondents Annie Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li, about the major earthquake that struck Taiwan earlier this month and its impact on the island's tech supply chains. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let u...
2024-04-16
13 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's tech workers trapped in web of noncompete clauses
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French hears from Cissy Zhou in Hong Kong about how some Chinese tech companies take noncompete agreements to the extreme in order to retain their workers. You can read Cissy's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/4aidMGd Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please s...
2024-04-09
14 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: TikTok sell-or-ban bill -- What's next?
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking with tech correspondent Yifan Yu about TikTok, the social media app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, which is facing a sell-or-ban bill in America. You can read Yifan's story here: https://s.nikkei.com/3VGw5Ar Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia ...
2024-04-02
11 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Binance CEO stresses new 'compliance focused' culture
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French catches up with Thailand correspondent Francesca Regalado on her recent interview with Richard Teng, CEO of cryptocurrency giant Binance. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review to let us know what you thought about this episode. And for the Asian business, p...
2024-03-26
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Southeast Asia's startups weather funding winter
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking to Akito Tanaka, our chief business news correspondent in Singapore, about how Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem is weathering its first proper funding winter. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcas...
2024-03-19
11 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Cyberscam threats prompt ASEAN-Australian response
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Australia correspondent Shaun Turton, about Southeast Asia's cyber slavery issue and recent efforts by ASEAN and Australia to combat the online scam gangs. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get yo...
2024-03-12
12 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: AI takes center stage at Mobile World Congress 2024
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo chats with Taipei tech correspondents Annie Cheng-Ting Fang and Lauly Li, about the highlights of the 2024 Mobile World Congress, where major telecom equipment makers and smartphone giants showcased their newest AI innovations. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia
2024-03-05
12 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's JD.com chases European e-commerce expansion
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Hong Kong business correspondent Cissy Zhou about Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s latest bid to go global. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a rev...
2024-02-27
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Japan's rocket success boosts space ambitions
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Mitsuru Obe, chief business news correspondent in Tokyo, about Japan’s H3 rocket launch and recent developments in the intensifying global space race. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscri...
2024-02-20
11 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: South Korea's fallen crypto king still on the run
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Seoul correspondent Kim Jaewon about the status of disgraced Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, and the latest on Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong's fraud case. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to...
2024-02-13
08 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Fujitsu mired in U.K. Post Office scandal
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to London correspondent Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa about the latest on Japanese IT giant Fujitsu’s entanglement in the U.K. Post Office scandal. *Starting next month, we will be releasing our podcast on Tuesdays. Our next episode drops on Tuesday, Feb.13. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikke...
2024-01-26
12 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Panasonic's EV battery comeback plan
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo chats to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about how Japan's Panasonic Energy is hoping to restore its leadership in the EV battery market with an investment push in the U.S. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twit...
2024-01-19
07 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Flying cars, baby tech and AI at CES 2024
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this first episode of 2024, Alice French hears from correspondents Yifan Yu and Cissy Zhou and tech editor Katey Creel, who are on the ground at CES, the world's largest consumer technology expo, in Las Vegas. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter Follow us on Twitter at @Nik...
2024-01-12
16 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest 2023 roundup: AI, chips and passenger jets
In this special year-end Tech Latest episode, Nikkei Asia's reporters look back on their highlights from tech news in 2023. You can read their top tech picks below: -- Annie: The great nanometer chip race -- Akito: U.S. big tech won't shake its China addiction -- Cissy: China tells big tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services -- Kenji: China's COMAC soars, helped by state-backed funding -- Lauly: How Taiwan became the indispensable economy -- Alice: Japan's Twitter-like Misskey to form company in bid for survival -- Jada: TikTok takes...
2023-12-15
12 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's economic slowdown fears grip tech sector
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Kenji Kawase, our senior business news correspondent in Hong Kong, for more on the impact that China’s economic slowdown is having on the world’s tech industry, plus the latest on what’s going on at OpenAI. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com/ Contribute to our New Year's Big Story: We're asking our readers to predict what 2024 might have...
2023-12-08
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Is it 'games over' for ByteDance?
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Cissy Zhou, one of our correspondents in Hong Kong, about ByteDance’s recent shock layoffs, and what they mean for the gaming industry in China and beyond. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at https://asia.nikkei.com/ You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia: https://twitter...
2023-12-01
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: EV battery makers brace for China graphite export curbs
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about what some upcoming export controls on Chinese graphite could mean for EV battery makers across Asia -- and the world. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia Please subscribe to us wherever you get...
2023-11-24
06 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's nuclear program siphons Japanese tech
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to senior business news correspondent Kenji Kawase about how Japanese machine tools have found themselves at the center of China's nuclear weapons efforts. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com Sign up for our Nov. 21 webinar on the Untold Story of the Chip War with author Chris Miller for free here: https://www.global-nikkei.com/chipwar You can register fo...
2023-11-17
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Chipmakers squeezed by new U.S. export rules
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is chatting with Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, our tech correspondent from Taipei, about the latest developments in the U.S.-China chip race. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com Sign up for Annie's Nov. 21 webinar on the Untold Story of the Chip War with author Chris Miller for free here: https://www.global-nikkei.com/chipwar You can register fo...
2023-11-10
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: The U.S.-China race for AI rules
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is chatting with Cissy Zhou, our Hong Kong senior business news correspondent, about the global race for AI rules. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for the Asian business, politic...
2023-11-02
07 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Inside the iPhone 15's costly components
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo takes a look inside Apple's new iPhone 15 with Akito Tanaka, our chief business news correspondent based in Singapore. You can check out Nikkei Asia's iPhone 15 teardown here: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/iPhone-15-teardown-reveals-10-costlier-parts-than-2022-flagship Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us...
2023-10-27
05 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Fresh geopolitical tensions hit TSMC
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Hong Kong chief business news correspondent Kenji Kawase, about renewed geopolitical tensions that have emerged in the tech sector this week, and the impact they are having on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us o...
2023-10-20
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Huawei's ambitious smartphone goals for 2024
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, our tech correspondent based in Taipei, about Huawei's ambitious smartphone comeback plan and how it hopes to achieve it. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for t...
2023-10-13
07 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Progress at TSMC's first Japan plant
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Cissy Zhou, our senior business news correspondent based in Hong Kong, about the progress being made at TSMC's new chip plant in Kumamoto, Japan. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And...
2023-10-06
08 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Why Chinese EV makers are heading West
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Akito Tanaka, our chief business news correspondent based in Singapore, about how and why some of China’s top EV makers are planning to set up manufacturing plants in Europe. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiA...
2023-09-29
06 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: China's EV domination and Indonesia's battery woes
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to business news correspondent Kenji Kawase in Hong Kong, about how the EU is squaring up to China's domination of the EV market, and why Indonesia is struggling to achieve its goal of becoming the world's EV battery hub. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/news...
2023-09-22
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Apple's iPhone 15 reveal amid China headwinds
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to chief tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting Fang in Taipei, about the waves that the impending release of Apple’s new iPhone 15 has been making across Asia. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ You can also join Annie on Sept. 26 for a webina...
2023-09-15
10 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: Huawei's 5G comeback and Samsung's smartphone slump
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French chats with Hong Kong senior business news correspondent, Cissy Zhou, for the latest on two of Asia’s biggest smartphone giants: Huawei and Samsung. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for the Asi...
2023-09-08
09 min
Tech Latest
Tech Latest: BYD's breakthrough and VinFast's bumpy ride
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Singapore business correspondent Akito Tanaka about the latest achievements of China's BYD and Vietnam's VinFast, the two hottest names in Asia's car industry. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-09-01
06 min
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Tech Latest: Intel's Malaysia plans and India's lunar success
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Taipei tech correspondents Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li about chip giant Intel's ambitions in Malaysia and India's recent moon-landing success. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for t...
2023-08-25
08 min
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Tech Latest: Could Japan's Misskey be the next Twitter?
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about the explosion of Misskey, a new Japanese social media platform that's aiming to rival Elon Musk's X. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And...
2023-08-18
07 min
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Tech Latest: Inside Apple's shift from China to India
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li, about Apple’s ambitious plans to move its iPhone supply chain from China into India. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for the...
2023-08-04
11 min
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Tech Latest: The Maldives' chip ships to Russia and Huawei's comeback plan
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French is talking to Annie Cheng Ting Fang, our Taipei tech correspondent, and Katey Creel, our Tokyo-based business editor, about the unlikely role the Maldives is playing in getting semiconductors into Russia and Huawei’s new chip ambitions. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/
2023-07-28
07 min
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Tech Latest: HP's shifting supply chain
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Kenji Kawase, senior business news correspondent in Hong Kong, about how PC giant HP is diversifying its supply chain away from China. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And...
2023-07-21
07 min
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Tech Latest: U.S. tech giants' China addiction
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Akito Tanaka, senior business news correspondent in Singapore, about the how U.S. big tech is still reliant on the Chinese market, despite decoupling efforts. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia ...
2023-07-14
08 min
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Tech Latest: The U.S.-China metals battle
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French is chatting with Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li about the U.S.-China battle over production of key tech materials. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for the Asian business, poli...
2023-07-07
07 min
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Tech Latest: TSMC's Arizona headache and 3 years of Hong Kong crackdown
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo catches up with business correspondent Kenji Kawase, based in Hong Kong, about how the Hong Kong national security law is linked to chipmaker TSMC's plans to build a new plant in Arizona, and why those plans have been delayed. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/...
2023-06-30
13 min
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Tech Latest: ASML's decoupling doubts
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo catches up with tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, based in Taipei, about her recent exclusive interview with Christophe Fouquet, executive vice president of chip equipment making giant ASML. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ And, we have an announcement: on Wednesday June 28, Nikkei As...
2023-06-23
07 min
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Tech Latest: Toyota's bet on solid-state batteries
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French catches up with chief business news correspondent Akito Tanaka, based in Singapore, about Toyota’s efforts to catch up in the global electric car race. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-06-16
07 min
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Tech Latest: China's race to replicate ChatGPT
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to our senior business news correspondent, Cissy Zhou, about how Chinese tech companies are scrambling to make the most of the ongoing AI boom. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-06-09
09 min
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Tech Latest: How Taiwan became the indispensable economy
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to our tech correspondent, Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, about the triangle of interdependence that has emerged between the U.S., China and Taiwan within the tech supply chain. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-06-02
10 min
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Tech Latest: Cable troubles in the South China Sea
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to senior business news correspondent Kenji Kawase, based in Hong Kong, about the geopolitical obstacles that undersea internet cable companies are facing in the South China Sea. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-05-26
07 min
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Tech Latest: Walmart flips the script in India
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to senior business news correspondent Cissy Zhou, based in Hong Kong, about how two American giants -- Walmart and Amazon -- are battling it out for online consumers in India. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on...
2023-05-19
07 min
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Tech Latest: China's Shein under scrutiny
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to chief business news correspondent Akito Tanaka about the U.S.'s latest crackdown on Shein, the online Chinese fashion giant. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And...
2023-05-12
05 min
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Tech Latest: Why is Microsoft cutting its hardware output?
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to tech correspondent Lauly Li about how Microsoft is cutting back on the production of peripherals for its Surface computers, and what this might mean for the global PC industry. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on...
2023-04-28
05 min
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Tech Latest: Asia's data center race
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to senior business correspondent Cissy Zhou about how Tokyo and Beijing are going head-to-head in the race to become a global data center hub. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia
2023-04-21
07 min
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Tech Latest: Russia's chip deals and Alibaba's new era
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to chief business news correspondent Kenji Kawase about how U.S.-made chips are flowing into Russia via Hong Kong and mainland China, despite wartime sanctions. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia And for the Asian business, politics, economy and te...
2023-04-14
07 min
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Tech Latest: AI's other winners and the new battery battle
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this inaugural episode, Jada Nagumo talks to chief business news correspondent Akito Tanaka about the rise of ChatGPT and what it means for Asia's semiconductor producers. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here: https://asia.nikkei.com/member/register/newsletter/ Follow us on Twitter at @NikkeiAsia Thank you for listening!
2023-04-07
08 min
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China's Media Mind Games
This episode, we look at China's media and political influence efforts, which are only just starting to be taken seriously by the rest of the world. We bring in the expertise of Josh Kurlantzick, author of the new book Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, host Waj Khan walks us through Beijing's uses of soft and sharp power. Then, correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart interviews Kurlantzick about Beijing's motivations, the biggest...
2022-12-30
39 min
Asia Stream
Asians on the Move: An Immigration Forecast
This episode, we look at the immigration trends Asia is experiencing and how the world population may rearrange itself over the next few decades. Our guide is Parag Khanna, author of Move: Where People Are Going for a Better Future. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. After host Waj Khan opens the show, correspondent Alice French joins for a Tokyo Dispatch segment (6:37) on women's wealth in Asia. Then correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart interviews Khanna (10:11) about which Asian countries people are leaving, and where they're...
2022-12-16
59 min
Asia Stream
Pakistan's New 'General Manager'
This episode, we discuss the appointment of Pakistan's new army chief. After months of drama and debate, Gen. Asim Munir has taken the helm of the world's sixth-largest fighting force and only nuclear-armed Islamic military. But what exactly is the big deal in a general taking charge? Well, considering that the army's ruled Pakistan for over three decades and continues to influence its governance from behind the throne, the most powerful man in the country is the army chief, not the prime minister. So when the Pakistani military's top gun changes, the world takes notice. Click here...
2022-12-02
42 min
Asia Stream
Asia's Scamdemic: The Age of Internet Predators
This episode, we investigate the online scamming industry that is plaguing Southeast Asia -- particularly Thailand. The Chinese underworld is trafficking people into Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos and forcing them to swindle victims young and old. And it's gotten much worse since the pandemic began, with Thailand's scam calls jumping 270%. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. After host Waj Khan opens the show, we hear from a Thai scammer who was held against his will for six months (04:42). Next, Alice French explains why...
2022-11-23
30 min
Asia Stream
The U.S. Election’s Impact on Asia
This episode, we discuss the results (so far) of the U.S. midterm election and how they will change Washington’s foreign policy in Asia, touching on China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Iran, Russia and beyond. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, the German Marshall Fund’s Tobias Harris returns to the pod to discuss the elections’ ripples in Asia with Monica Hunter-Hart (05:21). Then, Monica and Waj Khan cover the specifics of the election results with an audio diary they updated across the fi...
2022-11-11
33 min
Asia Stream
China's Big Week: The Coronation of Xi Jinping
We discuss the ongoing Chinese Communist Party congress, where paramount leader Xi Jinping is expected to secure himself a third term in power. We break down what you should know about the congress, why the zero-COVID policy looms so large over it, and what Xi might do in the coming years. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, Monica Hunter-Hart and Waj Khan go over the basics of the event (2:35). Then Alice French explains the worsening toll Xi's zero-COVID policy is taking on...
2022-10-20
35 min
Asia Stream
Iranians vs. the Islamic Republic: Who Will Win?
We discuss the ongoing protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, who was allegedly beaten to death for failing to follow the mandatory hijab law. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, host Waj Khan and correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart break down the latest updates. Then Monica interviews a protester in Mashhad about what she's witnessing (11:13); Cornelius Adebahr about where the protests are headed (19:05); and the Atlantic Council's Gissou Nia about Iran's discriminatory laws and how the international community can support demonstrators (29:20...
2022-10-14
43 min
Asia Stream
Exclusive Interview -- The Toughest Job in Asia
We interview Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari about the challenges his country is facing, including terrorism, a heavy debt burden, the rivalry with India, and the worst environmental disaster Pakistan has ever experienced. We also compare the approaches that Asia's central banks are taking to deal with this difficult economic moment. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, digital editor and host Wajahat S. Khan talks to Bhutto-Zardari (5:50), and then deputy editor Alice French interviews reporter Mitsuru Obe about the central banks' tactics...
2022-10-06
31 min
Asia Stream
Asia's Balancing Act with Russia
We discuss why many Asian countries are still dealing with Russia. In stark contrast to much of Europe and the U.S., most Asian countries -- with the notable exceptions of Japan and Singapore -- continue business as usual with the Russians. Is this about weapons? Oil? Policy? Or old habits from the Cold War? Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. Digital editor and host Wajahat S. Khan talks to Asia Stream correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart about the broader strategy to play both sides...
2022-09-16
50 min
Asia Stream
Turkey's Rise on the World Stage
We discuss Turkey's growing influence as it plays both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war and courts powers in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. Monica Hunter-Hart interviews Sinan Tavşan, Nikkei Asia's correspondent in Istanbul, about Turkey's ascendancy. She also shares interviews she recently recorded with Turkish bazaar vendors about the inflation crisis. This episode is hosted by Jack Stone Truitt, and was produced by Monica Hunter-Hart. Related to this episode: Making T...
2022-09-02
29 min
Asia Stream
Where Does Afghanistan Go From Here?
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. forces. What is life in Afghanistan like right now, and where does the country go from here? In this episode, Monica Hunter-Hart brings back a previous guest -- a woman secretly running a network of schools for girls -- to discuss the state of girls' education in Afghanistan. Then, Jack Stone Truitt interviews retired U.S. diplomat Annie Pforzheimer on what the international community can practically do to help Afghanistan. This episode of Asia Stream is hosted by Jack...
2022-08-19
26 min
Asia Stream
Pakistan's Debt and Division
Wajahat S. Khan joins Jack Truitt to discuss the multitude of crises Pakistan faces and his latest reporting from Washington (03:15). Then Waj takes a deeper look into why Pakistan has found itself in debt time and time again in a conversation with Dr. Aparna Pande and Uzair Younus (10:55). Finally, Nikkei Asia’s tech reporters in Taiwan, Annie Ting-Fang and Lauly Li, speak with Alice French for the Tokyo Dispatch about the hidden flaws in the global semiconductor supply chain (41:55). Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. ...
2022-07-30
49 min
Asia Stream
Shinzo Abe's Assassination: Aftermath & Impact
This episode, we discuss the impact former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had on Japan and on the world, with a focus on his national security and economic agendas. We discuss his legacy, analyzing both his popularity and his divisiveness. Click here or head to s.nikkei.com/3feonH8 to get 3 months of Nikkei Asia coverage for just $9. First, Monica Hunter-Hart interviews Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent Ken Moriyasu about how Abe reshaped Japan’s defense policy (05:10), and then Tobias Harris, an Abe biographer (23:19). Next, Jack Stone Truitt interviews Takuji Okubo about the legacy of Abenomics (35:31). Th...
2022-07-15
47 min
Asia Stream
The Struggle for Hong Kong's Identity
This episode, we take measure of the economic impact of China's stringent laws in Hong Kong and then take a deep dive into the social and political costs of Beijing's crackdown on the special administrative region. First, digital editor Waj Khan lays out the big picture: What ails the relationship between Beijing and Hong Kong? (02:25) Next, business and markets reporter Jack Stone Truitt crunches the numbers of the economic impact of the crackdown (05:49). Then, Asia Stream correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart reports on how activism, academia and the media have been affected (10:19), interviewing former Hong Kong legislator and student...
2022-07-01
39 min
Asia Stream
Abortion in Asia: Beyond Taboo
Abortion is the talk of the United States right now as the Supreme Court prepares to release a decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that enshrined abortion rights nationally. But what's happening in the places where abortion is a quieter conversation? What about the state of reproductive rights in Asia? This episode, we survey the laws and attitudes regarding abortion in Asia. We place special attention on four countries: China, Indonesia, India and Japan. Our reporters Marrian Zhou, Ismi Damayanti and Kiran Sharma fill us in, while host Waj Khan and producers Alice French, M...
2022-06-17
27 min
Asia Stream
Human Rights in Xinjiang: The U.N.'s China Compromise
This episode, we discuss evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region as a new collection of leaked documents rocks the world and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet returns from a controversial visit to the region. Monica Hunter-Hart interviews Michael Clarke, Adrian Zenz and Sophie Richardson about the history of Xinjiang, the Xinjiang Police Files leak and Bachelet's visit. She also talks to a Uyghur man who spent a month in pretrial detention in 2017. Then, Jack Stone Truitt interviews Darren Byler on Xinjiang's surveillance tech. Finally, Alice French sends in...
2022-06-03
46 min
Asia Stream
Asia's Inflation Dilemma
This episode, we report on three inflation stories of the moment that have similar causes -- particularly supply chain issues related to the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war -- but different results. Akhil Bery of the Asia Society Policy Institute joins us to discuss Sri Lanka, which is on the brink of economic collapse. Then USC's Saori Katada, along with our own Alice French and Mitsuru Obe, analyze the situation in Japan, which is experiencing rising prices for the first time in decades. Finally, Koc University's Selva Demiralp discusses Turkey, where inflation is threatening the president's reelection c...
2022-05-20
39 min
Asia Stream
The Philippine Election: Dynasty & Disinformation
This week, we focus on one of Asia’s most dynamic but flawed democracies: the Philippines. With the election just days away, we get under the hood of the electoral system and investigate the powerful role that dynasties play in the country, with a special focus on Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the front-runner on the cusp of taking power. We then take into account that other essential, if dangerous, tenet of modern Philippine democracy: disinformation, and how it is being used to gain support among the country’s most vulnerable populations. In this episode, Asia Stream correspondent Monica Hunt...
2022-05-06
39 min
Asia Stream
COVID's New Asian Onslaught
This week we examine the state of the pandemic in East Asia, which has been caught in an unprecedented COVID surge from the omicron variant. In particular, China's zero-COVID strategy has faced its stiffest challenge as lockdowns in Shanghai have stoked rare civic unrest. In this episode, Monica Hunter-Hart speaks with Nikkei data journalist Grace Li about how COVID is hitting Asia right now, Nikkei reporters CK Tan and Pak Yiu, who give us the latest from the ground in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, who breaks down the recent surge and what might...
2022-04-21
37 min
Asia Stream
And the Oscar Doesn’t Go To…
This week, it’s lights, camera, action! Asia Stream has gone Hollywood. Following an Oscars that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, we take a deeper look at the biggest awards in film and ask why they do such a poor job reflecting the scope of global cinema. Then, Asia Stream correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart takes a deeper dive into the history of Asian cinema, with a focus on Japan in particular, speaking to studio veterans, film critics, and historians. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription As...
2022-04-02
36 min
Asia Stream
Pakistan's Prime Minister Problem
Since it gained independence 75 years ago, not one of Pakistan's elected prime ministers has completed a full term of office. Assassinations, coups and resignations have seen to that. Consequently, this has created one of the world's most volatile polities, in one of the world's roughest neighborhoods. Now, Pakistan's 22nd Prime Minister, Imran Khan, faces a parliamentary crisis. From cricket superstar and international playboy, to a jet setting philanthropist, to a populist Islamist, Imran Khan's ascent to the highest office in Pakistan has been a remarkable case-study in professional evolution. Now he's in a fight for political survival...
2022-03-25
52 min
Asia Stream
The War Comes to Asia
This week, we host our first Editors' Roundtable for the year, bringing together our most seasoned journalists to understand the political, economic, diplomatic and tech impact that the war is having. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription In this episode, Monica Hunter-Hart reports on the latest from South Asia (02:10), our editors -- Michael Peel, Stephen Foley and Andy Sharp -- participate in the Editors' Roundtable (06:50), and Alice French sends in her Tokyo Dispatch (41:55). Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor and executive p...
2022-03-18
47 min
Asia Stream
The Cost of War
This week, we account for the cost of the fighting in Ukraine. These include the sanctions on Russia; the closures in Ukraine; the energy shortages in Europe; and surging global oil prices, commodities rates and inflation. Which sectors are feeling the most pressure? How exposed is Asia? And what’s the impact on the street? Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription In this episode, Jack Stone Truitt reports on the state of the global sanctions regime (02:55), Alice French reports on rising prices in Japan as she de...
2022-03-11
39 min
Asia Stream
The China-Russia-India Love Triangle
This week, we look at China and India, the major powers that still haven't condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and chose to abstain from reprimanding Moscow at the United Nations. What factors are compelling Beijing and New Delhi to stand by Russia? We report the latest on Russia's China connection, while Dhruva Jaishankar of the Observer Research Foundation America tells us about India's delicate balancing act. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor and executive producer, a...
2022-03-04
30 min
Asia Stream
The Old and New Cold War
This week, we use the anniversary of Richard Nixon's famous 1972 trip to China to launch a discussion of how we got to this current moment in U.S.-China-Russia relations. How did a "honeymoon" period between China and the United States in the 1970s and '80s veer into chilly competition? And as Russia invades Ukraine and China stands by, we examine how the Sino-Soviet rivalry transformed into the current Sino-Russian partnership. The new great-power contest has its roots in the Cold War; is history doomed to repeat itself? In this episode, we speak to Richard McGregor...
2022-02-25
22 min
Asia Stream
A Tale of Three Cities
This week, we take a look at three cities: Hong Kong, Gwadar and Jakarta (as well as Jakarta's forthcoming replacement, Nusantara), cities that were once the focus of big dreams, but are now facing major disappointments. They are cases of governments investing enormous sums of political and financial capital, without the intended benefits. Cases of when top-down planning and governance fall short. In this episode, we begin with an analysis of Hong Kong's fall from grace with Monica Hunter-Hart (02:35). Then Uzair Younus of the Atlantic Council joins us for a discussion of what's going wrong with the...
2022-02-18
32 min
Asia Stream
The Olympics According to Xi
This week, we report on President Xi Jinping and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The last time the Olympics were held there, the Games acted as China’s coming-out party on the world stage, but these Games serve a very different purpose for the world’s most populous country. What image is Xi trying to project? How do the Games tie into his larger political goals? And is he playing in the spirit of the Olympics, or playing to win? In this episode, we speak to professor Kerry Brown of King’s College and our chief Shanghai corres...
2022-02-11
29 min
Asia Stream
The Struggle for Myanmar
This week, one year after the military declared an emergency and assumed control there, we report on the escalating political, military and humanitarian crises in Myanmar. In this episode, we report on the latest developments within Myanmar, as well as the regional and international diplomacy underway. We talk to Nikkei Asia’s editor-at-large, Gwen Robinson, and contributor Thin Lei Win, both of whom have recently reported from the ground. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor an...
2022-02-04
32 min
Asia Stream
The Afghanistan Solutions Set
This week, we conclude our two-part special report on Afghanistan. What was once America's longest war is now the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Yes, the Taliban are a de facto reality in Afghanistan. But should international sanctions against the Islamists target all Afghans? And what about the millions who face starvation and death due to a collapsed economy? In this episode, Jack Stone Truitt and Monica Hunter-Hart report on the regional and political solutions prescribed by those who are wary of the Taliban, as well as those who want to help the country. Truitt talks to the...
2022-01-29
38 min
Asia Stream
The Afghanistan Problem Set
This week, we report on Afghanistan. What was once America's longest war is now one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. But what ails the Taliban government? What is stopping the world from saving Afghanistan's broken economy? And what about the millions who face starvation and death? In this episode, Monica Hunter-Hart reports on Afghanistan's most immediate problems. She talks to leading experts, diplomats, journalists on the ground, and refugees who have left to escape the crisis. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription Asia Stream is...
2022-01-22
24 min
Asia Stream
The Geopolitics of the Kazakhstan Crisis
This week, we examine the recent protests in Kazakhstan from the local, economic and geopolitical perspective. Joining us are our correspondents Paul Bartlett, Monica Hunter-Hart and Jack Stone Truitt, with professor Luca Anceschi of the University of Glasgow and Katrina Keegan of Harvard University weighing in with expert analysis. Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor in New York City, and produced by Monica Hunter-Hart and Jack Stone Truitt. Our theme music is “What's the Angle?” by Shane Ivers. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a...
2022-01-14
26 min
Asia Stream
The Asian Election Landscape in 2022
This week, we examine Asia’s evolving electoral landscape and list the crucial political battles that are coming up this year, with a deep dive into the upcoming election in the Philippines. And we appraise the mood in Washington one year after the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol and ten months before the midterm elections. Joining us this episode is renowned journalist and Columbia University Professor Sheila Coronel, as well as our own Monica Hunter-Hart and Jack Stone Truitt. Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor in New York Ci...
2022-01-08
34 min
Asia Stream
The Stories Which Mattered in 2021
This week, we take a look back at 2021 and the most crucial stories to emerge from the Indo-Pacific. Up first, our business and markets reporter Jack Stone Truitt reviews the year's most popular stories. Then, our feature presentation -- Asia Stream's first Editors & Reporters Roundtable: an in-depth discussion with an all-star panel about what's ticking in Asian news. From Brussels, we are joined by executive editor Michael Peel From New York .U.S. editor Ken Moriyasu weighs in. And our award winning duo of tech reporters, Cheng Ting-Fang, and Lauly Li will join us from Taiwan. Read...
2021-12-23
38 min
Asia Stream
The (Supply Chain) Nightmare Before Christmas
This week we examine the ongoing supply chain crisis and its implications for holiday season shoppers, as well as leading companies like Apple and Toyota. Joining the show today are business editor Stephen Foley and chief business correspondent Akito Tanaka. Click here for an exclusive offer to save 83% on a Nikkei Asia subscription Mentioned in this episode: --Apple's nightmare before Christmas: Supply chain crisis delays gift deliveries by Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li --Chipmakers' nightmare: Will shortages give way to a supply glut? by Akito Tanaka, Cheng Ting-Fang, and...
2021-12-17
27 min
Asia Stream
The Democracy Summit and the Future of India’s Republic
Welcome to Asia Stream, from Nikkei Asia. Every week, Asia Stream will track and analyze the Indo-Pacific with a mix of interviews with experts and original reporting from our team of correspondents from across the globe. Our first episode explores India's democratic backsliding as the U.S. holds the first-ever 'Summit for Democracy.' Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat Khan, our digital editor in New York City, and produced by Monica Hunter-Hart and Jack Stone Truitt. Out theme music is “What’s the Angle” by Shane Ivers. Click here f...
2021-12-10
31 min