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Pakistan’s brick kiln industry in particular is known for the peshgi system, which leaves workers forever trapped in debt – and vulnerable to coerced organ donations.

Despite repeated loss of life, Rohingya migration by sea continues.

Views of the Iran crisis vary from the perspectives of U.S. allies in Asia, Central Asia’s oil exporters, and South Asia’s perpetual foes, India and Pakistan.

Even before President Lai’s Eswatini visit was canceled, labor rights lawsuits, abuse allegations, and free speech concerns were bubbling under the surface.

After two consecutive NPT RevCons failed to muster consensus, Vietnam’s U.N. ambassador – and the president-designate of the 11th Review Conference – says this year’s meeting must succeed.

The PLA is sending military signals amid the Philippines-U.S. Balikatan exercise and ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.

Zholdasbay Sagidullayev allegedly approached a district police department building and repeatedly shouted, "Alga, Karakalpakstan!" 

Amid Tokyo’s arms export shift, one massive potential market still remains untapped.

Doubts about U.S. credibility are making arms purchases harder to sustain.

Migration enables Uzbek women to renegotiate traditional gender roles and assume greater economic responsibility, even if their experiences are shaped by legal precarity and social vulnerability.

Marcus Tantau from Templeton Research offers fresh insights into the region's economies as they reel from the impacts of the Hormuz oil crisis.

ATIGA review and industrial strategy in an age of geopolitical risk

It clubbed an already passed amendment on women’s reservation with the controversial amendment to delimit electoral boundaries. The ploy flopped.

The region offers a market with untapped potential for streaming entertainment, and one where disposable income is likely to rise in the years to come.

The country's conflict is not forgotten, but has suffered from a perception of irrelevance compared to other unfolding crises.

Whether or not it is approved, Washington's request for overflight access could invite even more controversial proposals in the future.

Deputy Prime Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said that the Hormuz crisis has "demonstrated the advantage" of controlling key transport routes.

With the Iran war simmering, U.S. officials will seek to reassure Asian allies that they remain a reliable and committed partner.

The battle over the next Dalai Lama, between religious tradition and state power, is set to become one of the defining geopolitical stories of the coming decade.

Custodial violence is not episodic but rather structural, woven into the daily architecture of incarceration.