Asia-Pacific
The topics this product tracks, the most attention first. Attention is measured against each topic’s own history — 50 is its usual level — so a high figure means unusually busy for that topic, not the most-discussed topic in the world.
Topics whose scope is Asia-Pacific. Worldwide topics — inflation, AI safety, the climate — belong to no single region and are listed under all topics.
Ordered by each topic’s current Attention figure: 0–100 against that topic’s own recent history, with 50 its usual level. Topics with no figure yet are listed last, A–Z. How attention is measured.
- North Korea73Attentionelevated · −3.7 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Philippines69Attentionelevated · +0.9 ptsup over 24 hours
- Bangladesh66Attentionelevated · −1.3 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Sri Lanka60Attentionabout usual · +4.0 ptsup over 24 hours
- Bank of Japan59Attentionabout usual · −4.0 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Hong Kong politics58Attentionabout usual · +3.6 ptsup over 24 hoursThe territory's own politics — its government, legislature, courts and national-security cases.
- Indian cinema55Attentionabout usual · −18.7 ptsdown over 24 hours
- BYD54Attentionabout usual · ±0.0 ptsunchanged over 24 hoursBYD — Chinese electric-vehicle and battery maker.
- Cambodia53Attentionabout usual · +2.3 ptsup over 24 hours
- Huawei52Attentionabout usual · +2.3 ptsup over 24 hoursHuawei — telecom equipment, smartphones, Kirin chips and US sanctions.
- ByteDance51Attentionabout usual · −7.1 ptsdown over 24 hoursByteDance — TikTok's parent company, Douyin and its ownership questions.
- Nepal51Attentionabout usual · −2.2 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Pakistan51Attentionabout usual · −6.2 ptsdown over 24 hours
- China51Attentionabout usual · ±0.0 ptsunchanged over 24 hours
- Alibaba51Attentionabout usual · +5.1 ptsup over 24 hoursAlibaba Group — Chinese e-commerce, cloud and fintech, including Ant Group.
- South China Sea50Attentionabout usual · +1.0 ptsup over 24 hoursTerritorial disputes, coast-guard confrontations and naval activity in the South China Sea.
- Tencent50Attentionabout usual · +2.1 ptsup over 24 hoursTencent — WeChat, games and China's largest internet platform company.
- Malaysia50Attentionabout usual · +4.4 ptsup over 24 hours
- India49Attentionabout usual · −1.4 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Myanmar49Attentionabout usual · +2.9 ptsup over 24 hoursMyanmar's military government and the civil war against it.
- South Korea48Attentionabout usual · −1.1 ptsdown over 24 hours
- New Zealand48Attentionabout usual
- Xiaomi48Attentionabout usual · +1.8 ptsup over 24 hoursXiaomi — smartphones, consumer devices and its electric cars.
- K-pop48Attentionabout usual · −9.6 ptsdown over 24 hours