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Shan Li

New Delhi

South Asia Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ South Asia correspondent based in New Delhi. Formerly in NYC and Beijing. Rejected by 1.4 billion people. Quarantine connoisseur. @latimes alum.

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Shan Li |Aakash Hassan

    Business moguls in South Asia consult the celestial planes before making major decisions; ‘they think the future can be controlled like this’Ashish Bansal first consulted an astrologer during a period of business turmoil. Her top tip for the New Delhi commodities exporter: focus on selling white-colored products, because his birth chart was closely aligned with the white moon. Nearly a decade later, 98% of Bansal’s business is exporting rice. White rice. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Shan Li

    Shovon Islam, who owns four garment factories in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, was shocked by the new 37% tariff on imports from the South Asian country, which previously enjoyed duty-free access to the American market and is the second-largest garment exporter after China. Islam’s American clients have told him that, in the medium term, they could slash orders 20% or 30%.

  • 3 weeks ago | nature.com | Jie-Ying Zhu |Min Chen |Wang-Jing Mu |Hong-Yang Luo |Shan Li |Lin-Jing Yan | +4 more

    AbstractExercise combats obesity and metabolic disorders, but the underlying mechanism is incompletely understood. KLF10, a transcription factor involved in various biological processes, has an undefined role in adipose tissue and obesity. Here, we show that exercise facilitates adipocyte-derived KLF10 expression via SIRT1/FOXO1 pathway.

  • 1 month ago | cn.wsj.com | Shan Li

    印度总理莫迪(Narendra Modi)上月访问华盛顿期间明确表示:他很乐意接回在美国的印度非法移民。 “任何非法进入另一个国家的人,都绝对无权留在那个国家,”莫迪在与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)举行的联合记者会上表示。他还说,在非法移民问题上,印度和美国“一直持相同观点”。 Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 1 month ago | wsj.com | Shan Li |Aakash Hassan |Tripti Lahiri

    By , Aakash Hassan and | Photographs by Smita Sharma for WSJ Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:43This article is in your queue. During a visit to Washington last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one point crystal-clear: He would gladly take back illegal Indian migrants in the U.S.“Anybody who enters another country illegally, they have absolutely no right to be in that country,” Modi said during a joint press conference with President Trump.

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24 Apr 24

RT @JohnReedwrites: Open letter: foreign correspondents protest the case of ABC’s Avani Dias, who was effectively forced out of #India this…

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20 Feb 24

Mug shots and months as a jailbird: the curious tale of a racing pigeon that sparked suspicions of espionage in India. https://t.co/MaFi2qnbxq

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6 Feb 24

Dueling grandsons. A 3,000-page court filing. Inside the bitter battle over the origin of butter chicken. "A delicious dispute." https://t.co/v8OgRIb8CB