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The visa bond pilot program mandates that otherwise eligible applicants for business or tourism visas from select countries, now including Turkmenistan, will have to post a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States.

Beijing has torn through the Monroe Doctrine. Post-Maduro Venezuela will be an important test case for the U.S. strategy to change that.

Japan’s Coast Guard is on high alert as China seeks to irreversibly alter the status quo.

As China’s technological and military power continues to grow, the central issue is whether Beijing can accommodate a stable coexistence with India as an autonomous Asian power.

Its carefully worded statement does not condemn the military action. Indeed, it makes no mention of the U.S. at all.

Mustafizur’s removal from the IPL is a yorker to Bangladesh-India relations and regional stability. So much for cricket diplomacy. 

Despite the country's stagnant economy, the baht gained nearly 9 percent against the dollar over the course of 2025.

Investigators are puzzling over the Bondi Beach shooters' visit to Davao City.

The country also posted its highest-ever annual trade surplus with Washington, despite the US government's recent imposition of a 20 percent tariff.

Debt and the economy will be among the chief challenges facing the Lao People's Revolutionary Party during its coming five-year term.

How is the U.S. operation to detain the Venezuelan president being perceived in Asia by allies and adversaries?

Pyongyang was slow in issuing a relatively tempered statement, but also turned a missile launch event into a tool for deterrence signaling.

For more than two centuries, Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka have been trapped in poverty, enduring structural discrimination and hazardous conditions despite repeated promises of reform.

Tokayev proposed that the EAEU focus on artificial intelligence, logistics, digitalization, free trade, and global dialogue.

Umar Khalid and Zohran Mamdani embody a shared global moment: exposing state excess on one side, and dissent and solidarity on the other.

It’s been celebrated at home and criticized abroad. But there's an important caveat to the record-breaking data.

Rising repayment pressures are narrowing fiscal space and testing the sustainability of the region’s development model.

Yamagami Tetsuya's trial will renew attention to the powerful effect of religious groups in Japanese politics, and the LDP’s history of opaque fundraising. Will Takaichi address those issues?

Wary of accusations of hegemonism, India is shying away from the label “net security provider” in favor of a new model.

Taiwan’s government has in recent years stepped up efforts to strengthen public communication amid growing security and disaster risks. But does this kind of guidance actually changes people's actions?