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The draft defense budget sets a new spending record for the 12th straight year amid mounting regional threats and U.S. alliance pressure.

The world views of China and the U.S. have come into closer alignment in our current era. They go about the enactment of their policies in significantly different ways.

The globally acclaimed MGNREGA, enacted when the Congress party was in power, has been replaced by a law that puts in place a discretionary scheme.

The return of the BNP’s acting chairperson is expected to give the party a boost in the upcoming general elections.

Appreciation or criticism of a movie is no longer interpreted primarily as an aesthetic or ethical judgment. It has become a marker of allegiance or opposition to the state.

More than four years ago, the military ousted Myanmar's freely elected government at gunpoint. The upcoming polls will be a total sham.

The new U.S.-Malaysia trade agreement’s forced labor import ban requirement may pose new risks for Taiwanese electronics firms. But it’s also an opportunity to make progress.

The division of Korea will not last forever. The more North Koreans who know the truth about the Hungnam evacuation, the better. 

A new U.S.-led alliance to secure semiconductor manufacturing highlights a deeper shift in global techno-geopolitics -- and the scale of India’s dependence on foreign technology across chips, energy and advanced research.

By electing the highly unpopular and recently ousted PM Oli as party chief, the CPN-UML has thumbed its nose at the Gen Z demand for fresh and young leaders.

Interministerial discord made a recent comeback, pitting the so-called “self-reliance faction” against the “pro-alliance faction” over how best to approach North Korea.

Murray Hunter was expected to appear before a court in mid-December following his indictment but his trial was postponed. Instead he attended a four-hour Senate Committee hearing into enhancing anti-SLAPP legislation.

Western strategic dissonance, U.N. cowardice, a gutted civil society, and cynical Thai aggression are providing cover for a weakened Hun Sen.

After years of relative marginalization in global affairs, Pakistan was able to reclaim a prominent position on the world stage.

424 Cambodian troops have been wounded and 13 killed in one province alone since the outbreak of fighting on December 7.

The shooters’ actual connections to Islamic State groups in the Philippines may be tenuous, but the spotlight provides an opportunity to reflect on the group’s persistence and the importance of the ongoing Bangsamoro peace process.

Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Will the Kim regime be successful in uprooting this core element of North Korea’s black market economy?

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods.

After a 10-year-old Tajik boy was killed at a Moscow-area school last Tuesday, Dushanbe has spoken out, calling the attack an act of ethnic hatred, but have left bilateral relations unchanged.