Opinion

  It’s been 16 years since Air India Ltd. was last on the block. So strong was the political opposition then to privatizing the national carrier that Singapore Airlines Ltd., Emirates Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc. and Air France SA pulled out of the race. Now, India is again mulling the idea of selling 51 percent of the state-owned carrier, …

  If South Sudan’s famine is “man-made,” and it is, then maybe man can also unmake it. Given the country’s unstable government and the U.S.’s uncertain global leadership, however, most of the effort will have to come from China. More than 40 percent of South Sudan’s 11 million people don’t have enough to eat not because of drought or other …

  Mindful of the chaos and confusion in the wake of Trump’s last month executive order barring entry from seven Muslim majority countries and halting refugee program, airport officials and civil rights lawyers across the US are getting ready for Trump’s new travel ban. Trump said that his executive order named seven countries because they had already been deemed a …

  Back in 2006, after Chung Mong-koo, chairman of Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. and son of its founder, was arrested amid one of South Korea’s recurring corruption scandals, I called a friend in the company’s public relations office. He answered in a breathless panic. Without Chung in the driver’s seat, he assured me, the management of Korea’s largest automaker would …

  London’s Cheesegrater building is as close as Britain gets to a memorial to Brexit. Construction of the wedge-shaped skyscraper in the heart of the city’s financial district started in 2011 as things were picking up after the financial crisis. Within three weeks of the European Union referendum, the tower was fully let. At the time, its co-owner, British Land …

  The comeback of the Nokia 3310, the icon of the “dumb phone” industry, is mainly a marketing gimmick by a Finnish startup. But there’s plenty of reasons to embrace it as something more — as an antidote to these digitally toxic times. Unlike the original, which was discontinued more than a decade ago, the rebooted model by HMD offers …

  We live in an age of disbelief. Many of the ideas and institutions that have underpinned Americans’ thinking since the early years after World War II are besieged. There is an intellectual and political vacuum into which rush new figures (Donald Trump) and different ideas (America First). These new ideas and leaders may be no better than the ones …

  China is counting on heady valuations and its power as the gatekeeper to get tech stars like Ant Financial to go public at home rather than in New York or Hong Kong. Listing candidates should be wary — no matter how much it’s reformed, the domestic market is full of fickle investors and regulators. China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman …

  Donald Trump’s latest harsh immigration orders leave little doubt about how he and his administration view outsiders who have come to the U.S. illegally. His views on high-skilled, legal immigrants are more complicated. He’s vowed to punish companies that bend the rules to replace American workers with cheaper foreigners, but he’s also said he welcomes talented innovators to America’s …

  The influence-peddling scandal, which led to the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, is getting knottier. It took the dramatic turn when a court granted special prosecutor’s request for permission to arrest Samsung Group’s de facto leader Jay Y Lee over allegations of bribery and embezzlement. Lee is accused to have made payments of tens of millions of …