Welcome to Your Week in Asia.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet will pay a visit to Thailand and meet with his counterpart, Srettha Thavisin, on Wednesday. A day later, Pakistan will hold general elections.
Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans will descend on Tokyo this week as the American megastar kicks off her Asia tour.
The lunar new year, which falls on Saturday, is celebrated in many East and Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese markets will remain closed until Feb. 19.
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MONDAY
GDP: Indonesia
TUESDAY
Earnings: SMIC, Nintendo, Toyota
Monetary policy: Australia
WEDNESDAY
Cambodia's Hun Manet in Thailand
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet is making his first official visit to Thailand since he took up the position last August from his strongman father Hun Sen, who was in power for 38 years. The main focus will be the resumption of talks over a 26,000-square kilometer area in the Gulf of Thailand where the two countries have overlapping natural gas claims. Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is eager to make progress on a deal to develop the area jointly as costly imports of liquefied natural gas weigh on the economy.
Srettha revealed during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos last month that the two prime ministers talk quite frequently on WhatsApp as a "casual way" of communicating without going through official channels.
Taylor Swift kicks off Asia tour
Music icon Taylor Swift will make some of the wildest dreams of her Asian fans come true when the next leg of her Eras Tour begins. The concert tour has already grossed more than $1 billion in the U.S. and will have a four-day stint in Tokyo, followed by stops in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Swift's final show in Tokyo on Feb. 10 will require a mad dash to Las Vegas for another end game -- the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, where her boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs will vie for the National Football League title.
Earnings: DBS, Alibaba Group, Yum China
Monetary policy: Thailand
THURSDAY
Pakistan election
Following the ouster and imprisonment of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistanis are due to vote in general elections after nearly two years of political upheaval. The former cricket star turned firebrand politician remains popular, but he has been barred from the polls and was recently hit with not one but two jail sentences that could see him incarcerated for as long as 14 years. Meanwhile, Nawaz Sharif, Khan's nemesis and fellow former prime minister, is widely considered the military establishment's favorite to form the next government.
PNG PM speaks at Australian parliament
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape is expected to deliver a joint address to Australia's Parliament. The speech comes as Marape faces pressure at home following fatal riots in January and a possible no-confidence vote later this month. China's moves to increase its influence in the region have drawn attention to the Pacific nation and its foreign policy. There have been reports that Beijing approached Papua New Guinea last year about deepening security cooperation.
Monetary policy: India
Earnings: Honda, Nissan, SoftBank Group
China data: CPI and PPI for January
FRIDAY
Markets close for lunar new year holidays
The three mainland Chinese bourses in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing will be closed from Friday until Feb. 18 for the long lunar new year vacation. Similarly, the stock exchange in Taipei will be shut from Tuesday this week, Feb. 6, until Wednesday, Feb. 14. The Hong Kong Exchange will be shut from Saturday this week, Feb. 10, until Tuesday, Feb. 13.
