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The case against former Orda editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, who was placed under house arrest in December 2025, is set to begin following months of legal proceedings.

Beijing’s AI data center strategy will purposefully exclude foreign firms – providing a shot in the arm for domestic companies.

A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

India and Japan keep talking about diversifying supply chains, but there's a gap between diplomatic rhetoric and industrial reality.

China’s attack on Taiwan has already started – with the Ethnic Unity Law as a weapon.

The Nakamal Agreement between Australia and Vanuatu may be weaker than Canberra’s other regional pacts, but it remains significant in checking China’s influence.

Will the rules-based order be a beacon in troubled waters?

While not every arrest will lead to a conviction, the old assumption that power could delay accountability indefinitely has begun to shake.

The annual bung bang fai festival calls on the god Phaya Thaen to bring rain at the start of the agricultural season.

The Bangkok-based advocacy group Project88 documented 56 political arrests last year, the most in any year since 2018.

A decade on from one of the country's highest-profile political killings, democracy remains a dream rather than reality.

The maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity will have an additional year to locate the wreckage of the Boeing 777 airliner, which vanished without trace in 2014.

Kazakhstan could plug Russia's current gasoline deficit, but it's a risk. Astana struggles already with self-sufficiency.

Scientists warn of a regional disaster if pollution from rare earth and gold mining in Myanmar continues to spread toxins further along the Mekong River.

Chinese workers have reportedly resumed construction on a critical highway along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border where two such workers were killed in November 2025.

“Economic statecraft is not as simple or easy as Chinese decisionmakers think or as U.S. policymakers and external observers might fear,” argues Audrye Wong, author of a new book on the topic.

The award did not settle maritime disputes in the region. But it did fundamentally clarify the interpretation of maritime entitlements under UNCLOS – and forced countries to clarify their claims in turn.

The U.S. wants explicit alignment, but China’s more flexible approach to strategic competition resonates with Pacific Island states.

Goodbye INDOPACOM and hello (again) Middle Eastern distractions.

By adding legal backup to state control of Chinese private companies, Decree No. 837 affects any country receiving their investments. This regulation matters well beyond China itself.