Beijing bets on Myanmar’s junta
China is now openly backing Myanmar’s military junta and pressuring ethnic armed groups fighting it to go back to the ...
China is now openly backing Myanmar’s military junta and pressuring ethnic armed groups fighting it to go back to the ...
Taiwan looks like it will still have a bumpy ride throughout 2025, but there are more than enough Taiwanese who ...
Democracy advocates in Asia brace themselves for the second presidency of Donald J. Trump and his ‘America First’ policy.
Elections are supposed to offer opportunities for change, but there seems to be little chance of that happening in the ...
The Wall Street Journal’s dismissal of a Hong Kong journalist for heading a journalists’ union may be setting a dangerous ...
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s former prime minister, had used her friendship with her Indian counterpart to keep the relationship between their ...
South Korea’s foremost human rights body readies itself for a new chairperson, even as rights advocates clamor for a better ...
An agreement was supposedly struck between protesters and authorities in Pakistan’s border city of Chaman, ending a months-long sit-in, but ...
Bringing about social change is not simply about funding, creating, and running programs to help the downtrodden, especially in the ...
Many sex workers in Nepal have found more freedom and control in cyber sex work, but image-based sexual abuse plus...
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