This year may end up a pivotal one in the quest of Myanmar’s resistance forces to free the country from its military junta.

China is now openly backing Myanmar’s military junta and pressuring ethnic armed groups fighting it to go back to the negotiating table. But analysts say that Beijing has grossly miscalculated the groups’ determination to get rid of the junta.

The dream of many Indians to migrate to Canada may remain just that as the diplomatic tiff between Canada and India continues and Ottawa also tightens immigration rules.

Taiwan looks like it will still have a bumpy ride throughout 2025, but there are more than enough Taiwanese who are determined that it keeps going in the right direction.

The new administration in India’s Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has barely warmed its seat, but it already needs to address an unemployment crisis that has been festering for years.

An Algerian national realizes that there are many parallels between her North African nation and countries in Asia and that the need for solidarity and resilience for democracy to thrive is universal.

Democracy advocates in Asia brace themselves for the second presidency of Donald J. Trump and his ‘America First’ policy.

A humanitarian crisis caused by sectarian clashes in Kurram district in Pakistan’s northwest has revealed that the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the people there.

One of Bangladesh’s smallest indigenous minorities is bearing the brunt of military operations against an armed insurgent group.

In Mongolia, Vietnamese mechanics are held in high esteem for their stellar work, but little attention has been paid to their questionable working and living conditions.

Over 60% of 71 governors belonging to political dynasties in the Philippines are seeking reelection. Meanwhile, 19 sitting governors who are not reelectionists have family members seeking to replace them.

After being targeted by Pegasus spyware, a Thai activist fights for justice even as a flawed legal system that dismissed his case threatens the fate of other affected victims who might also want to seek judicial recourse.

Fear of being recruited into the military is making more and more Myanmar youths to try going abroad, but the junta is determined to have them stay put.

One of them is not even in her teens yet, but sisters Nandini and Yachika Jaglan are already following their father’s lead in advocating for women’s rights and gender equality.

In disaster-prone South Asia, a mental-health crisis is building up as people try to cope with the worsening impacts of climate change.

Rights advocates say that nickel-mining activities in the Indonesian island of Halmahera pose a threat to one of the country’s last nomadic hunter-and-gatherer tribes.

In the Philippines, red-tagging of activists and non-profits has escalated to terrorist-tagging, with authorities charging several groups and individuals under the country’s anti-terrorism legislation.

Rights advocates say that Pakistan’s frequent state-instigated Internet shutdowns and slowdowns are nothing less than rights violations.

Bangladesh’s export to India of a fish beloved by Bengalis has become the unlikely barometer of the state of relations between the two nations, but ecology experts want the focus to shift to bilateral cooperation to protect it.

Beijing has continued its relentless crackdown on human rights lawyers like Yu Wensheng, sending a message to present and future rights defenders that the cost of advocating for justice will be their freedom – and their families' future.