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Mon, 01/12/2025 - 14:59
Following a crime committed by one man, Afghans as a group were recast as an “enemy within.” This pattern is not new.
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 14:47
What began as a Korean-led success story is now transforming into a live demonstration of how quickly – and how decisively – Chinese firms can reshape high-tech markets.
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 14:20
Rising debt has sparked a new battle for national sovereignty.
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 09:57
The regime change has not resulted in weakening the rampant abuse of human rights by state institutions.
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 07:31
“Pakistan’s opposition to dam building on the Kunar River and its tributaries is due to political rather than technical reasons.”
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 07:25
Questions are being raised whether the Tejas light combat aircraft, like the MiG-21 before it, is an unreliable “flying coffin” or widow maker.”
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 05:07
Lawyers tried to argue that Rodrigo Duterte's illness and advanced age created “compelling humanitarian grounds” for his interim release to a third country.
Mon, 01/12/2025 - 02:19
The state poll was dominated by Sabah-based parties, reflecting growing disenchantment in the federal government and a growing desire for regional autonomy.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 16:31
As the evidence piles up, scientists are urging Southeast Asia’s governments to wake up to the rare earth pollution crisis.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 16:01
Taiwan doesn’t need AUKUS membership to strengthen Pillar II’s force multiplier effect.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 15:29
Activists opposed to a new law banning the spread of “LGBT propaganda” might already be subject to it.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 13:55
A recent survey highlighted that less than a third of the Australian population believe that “people in government can be trusted.”
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 09:01
The phone call and implications for the Indo-Pacific
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 04:58
As they have grown more alienated from the West, relations between the two repressive governments have blossomed.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 04:51
The two reports relate to the Nellie massacre of 1983, when mobs attacked villages inhabited by Bengali-origin Muslims, killing over 1,800 people.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 01:21
Instead of challenging China’s maritime claims unilaterally, outside powers would do better to collaborate more closely with Southeast Asian claimant states.
Fri, 28/11/2025 - 00:56
The deluges and flash floods of the past week have capped off an unusually destructive wet season in Southeast Asia.
Thu, 27/11/2025 - 22:36
Have the country's real estate prices become untethered from the basic economic forces of supply and demand?
Thu, 27/11/2025 - 19:46
Takaichi’s forward-leaning stance on Taiwan reflects the Japanese public’s decreased opposition to such rhetoric.
Thu, 27/11/2025 - 16:47
The current turbulence in global politics prompted IBSA to hold a summit for the first time in 14 years. India, Canada and Australia also announced a new trilateral grouping.
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