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Uzbekistan Launches Its First Tax-Free Crypto Mining Zone
Uzbekistan wants to reap the economic benefits of cryptocurrency, while keeping the industry regulated.
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What Ails India’s Education Sector
What India needs is deep systemic changes to its education system, economy, and more generally, the life that it offers its youth.
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Vietnam’s New AI Law and Its Strategic Implications
The country's government is leading Southeast Asian efforts to regulate AI technologies, but its approach has several important shortcomings.
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Indonesia’s Whoosh Feels the Squeeze in 2025
The country's first high-speed rail line continues to operate at a loss. Will this place an unsustainable burden on its fiscal resources?
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Malaysian Authorities Detain More Than 100 Rohingya Asylum Seekers Outside UNHCR Office
The detention of the group, who were reportedly driven out of a settlement in Penang on Sunday, comes amid rising public hostility toward Rohingya refugees.
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The Shifting Contours of Transnational Cybercrime in the Asia-Pacific
A conversation with Bangkok-based anti-fraud advisor Ian Timberlake.
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Resignation of Bank Indonesia Governor Shocks Markets, Raises Independence Questions
Perry Warjiyo, who has served as governor of the central bank since 2018, said that he was stepping down for "personal reasons."
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RIMPAC 2026 and the Future of Multinational Maritime Operations in the Indo-Pacific
This year's iteration of the exercise reflects several important strategic concepts – and a focus on countering China's navy.
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The Limits of China’s Growing Influence at the United Nations
Beijing’s engagement is more cautious, selective, and constrained than it appears.
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The Strait of Malacca: The Indo-Pacific’s Most Critical Chokepoint?
The vulnerabilities of Hormuz and Malacca are fundamentally different – but a closure of the Strait of Malacca would be far worse.
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China, Japan, and the Memory Security Dilemma
How historical memory distorts strategic signaling in Sino-Japanese relations.
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New Global Trade Arrangement Gains Momentum – And It’s Worth Watching
The Future of Investment and Trade Partnership, with 19 members and counting, is championing open and fair trade at a time when others are retreating.
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Kashagan Environmental Fine Enforced in Kazakhstan
An asset freeze could be the first step of an acrimonious fight with the foreign oil majors developing one of the country’s largest oil fields.
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Why Australia Struggles to Foster Asia Experts
A new government report looks at Australia’s “Asia capability” and finds the country wanting.
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Asia’s Overlooked Maritime Flashpoints
Besides the South China Sea, there are various waterways under contention, from open ocean to marshlands and rivers.
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India Successfully Tests Kusha Long-range Surface-to-Air Missile
This is an important milestone in India’s evolving multi-layered long-range air defense architecture envisaged under Mission Sudarshan Chakra.
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India’s Gen Z Protesters Score Major Victory Against Modi Government
After angry students forced the education minister to resign, Prime Minister Modi’s aura of invincibility has been dented.
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Pakistan, China Sign $850 Million Deals to Boost Pharmaceutical Cooperation
The costs of Pakistan’s dependence on imports for medicines and vaccines are huge. Chinese investment could end this reliance.
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Vietnam Planning Social Media Restrictions for Children Under 16
The proposed rules would would bar minors from posting, sharing, or commenting on social media platforms.
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Philippines Holds Joint Exercises With US, Japan in South China Sea Amid Tensions With China
Manila and Beijing continue to trade accusations about a series of clashes at two disputed features in the South China Sea last week.
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