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South Korea has a chance to lead in defining the scope, standards, and ambition of a new U.N. convention on crimes against humanity.

Their partnership is deepening as the Hormuz crisis drives cooperation on critical minerals, nuclear energy, and supply chain resilience.

China’s “five-point proposal” is structured to avoid friction or controversy. That’s not a recipe for solving conflict.

There are suspicions that the probe committee investigating the violence during the two-day protests wanted to protect some people from prosecution.

Despite the advantages it enjoys as a net oil exporter, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the country cannot afford to get "too comfortable."

Even the region's energy-rich countries are now being forced to reckon with the economic fallout from the Iran conflict.

However, prosecutors are appealing the five-year sentence handed to 22-year-old Fandi Ramadhan for his role in the trafficking of nearly two tonnes of methamphetamines.

Washington's Asian allies have shown little interest in supporting the U.S. war effort, even at the level of rhetoric.

The Trump-Xi summit itself is likely to be less important than the divergent strategies that it may reveal.

Economic stabilization achieved over the past fiscal year, when inflation finally began to decline, could prove painfully short-lived if the crisis does not end soon.

Shairbek, who resigned from parliament last month, had previously been questioned as a “witness" in the Kyrgyzneftgas case.

For almost a decade now, the gap between official progress and political reality has stalled Rohingya diplomacy.

Insights from Nicholas Niarchos.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, Bangladesh is in a dire strait of its own and looking far afield for new energy partners, like Kazakhstan.

Amid U.S. requests for naval involvement in the Strait of Hormuz, Seoul has three options: leveraging, minimizing, or compensating.

The key question is not whether China is “exporting authoritarianism,” but how its cooperation mechanisms interact with domestic dynamics already moving in that direction.

Put one way, the Japarov-Tashiev split is a “political divorce…  involving high stakes, such as significant assets, complex business structures, or intense custody battles.”

Withdrawing from Lebanon would undermine Indonesia’s peacekeeping credibility and ironically serve the very powers Jakarta claims to resist.

The country is in a better position than its immediate neighbors, but the coming weeks are set to test Prime Minister Anutin's new administration.

With the economy still in a fragile state, the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party has decided against significant changes at the top.