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Rights groups say ASEAN and the international community must have direct access to Aung San Suu Kyi.

The state’s woes are of its own making. Since independence, successive governments implemented policies that repelled foreign investment.

Why the new frame of “constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability” matters. 

New survey data from Hong Kong Watch helps quantify the scale of the problem – including among Hong Kongers not engaged in public activism.

The 2026 NPT Review Conference is unfolding against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval. Absent strong U.S. leadership inside and outside the conference, even modest success appears remote. 

For Seoul, what the leaders of the great superpowers left unsaid in Beijing may matter more than what they agreed on.

Rahmon's four-day state visit also produced more than $8 billion in projected investment deals and confirmed Beijing's displacement of Moscow as Dushanbe's principal economic patron.

India thought it had an agreement with the RSP leadership on its interests being accommodated.

There was a lot of grand talk about stabilizing the relationship, and few deliverables. 

The current decade could become the first golden era of Uzbek football, exemplified by two youth championships and participation at the upcoming World Cup.

Despite small steps in 2023 and 2024, the 2025 harvest reportedly saw a complete return to the mobilization of state employees into the fields.

The Australian government has gone looking for oil in East and Southeast Asia with little or no understanding of where it actually comes from.

Earlier this week, Senator Ronald dela Rosa, the enforcer of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs," fled to his Senate office to avoid arrest on a warrant from the ICC.

The Malaysian financier recently sought a pardon, despite being accused of masterminding the theft of $4.5 billion from the state investment fund.

Can “The Legend of Maula Jatt” win over Chinese audiences and pave the way for more Pakistani films?

Despite high reported internet penetration, millions of Nepalis – especially in rural areas – remain offline or struggle with unreliable and unaffordable connections. 

The upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Xi will be followed by a Putin-Xi summit. Will there be scope for triangular diplomacy?

Unlike in 2024, China sees an opportunity to influence Australia. That has led Beijing to refrain from criticism.

Tokyo’s defense exports are becoming tools for building a new middle power security network across the Indo-Pacific.

Sponsored student visits are keeping international contact alive, but schools and analysts should ask questions about the intentions behind the visits as well as the impressions they create.