Asia-Pacific is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world.
Is Rahul Gandhi’s basic income a ploy, history holds on a lesson.
International technology firms face sweeping new regulations in India that have the potential to create major shifts in the country’s cyber landscape.
Will Facebook kowtow to the Vietnamese government to keep its market share.
The visit signals China’s importance in the negotiation between the United States and North Korea.
President Xi Jinping delivered a major speech on Wednesday on Taiwan, one of the hottest button issues for the country.
Southeast Asia will have a busy political calendar in 2019 with voters in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines heading to the polls within the year.
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The nonagenarian’s stunning victory changed the landscape of Malaysian politics and was a triumph for democracy in a region experiencing its decline.
In a country noted for its abuse and violence towards women, the #MeToo movement has sparked necessary conversation and is changing norms.
Protests and diplomatic wranglings reach a crescendo after a recent crackdown by Indian security forces.
Thailand is once again under the spotlight for extraditing dissidents and refugees.
A ban on foreign election observers has many analysts questioning Thailand’s military government.
Quinn Libson examines whether the expensive and long lasting tribunal has been worth the money.
Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi wants the world to see her country as a business and investment opportunity waiting to be seized.
China has kicked off the country’s first ever international import expo in Shanghai, an event designed to boost China’s image as a market to the world.
The world’s two largest economies have been locked in a trade war—with escalating stakes—for months, and there’s no sign the mutual hostilities will end any time soon.
The World Economic Forum has released the latest version of its Global Competitiveness Index which saw differing fortunes for longstanding Asian giants.
The World Economic Forum has released the latest version of its Global Competitiveness Index, and this time, the list is unlike any it has compiled before.
Unless checked, the problem will exacerbate problems for several southeast Asian countries.
The diplomatic spaces in which Aung San Suu Kyi, the state counselor of Myanmar, can move without serious challenge are growing increasingly narrow.
Typhoon Mangkhut, which swept through the Philippines, Hong Kong and Southern China over the weekend will go down on history as one of the regions most powerful storms in years.
Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act which was used to prosecute and send two Reuters reporters to prison for seven years is not the only law that has been weaponized against the press.
This isn’t the first time the Prime Minister has used the tools of arrest and release in tandem to quell pressures from home and abroad.
Earthquakes have shaken Indonesian islands, floodwaters have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and unseasonal cyclones have battered coastlines around the region.
The prime minister has been notably outspoken in his criticism of China-backed infrastructure projects and Beijing’s involvement in the South China Sea.
Concerns over US tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum sent destabilizing ripples across the region.
The former prime minister was served with new charges on Wednesday—adding three counts of money laundering to his growing list of alleged transgressions.
Will the new legislation have the power to bring peace to a region choked by decades of deadly separatist conflict.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad says he wants to renegotiate the water agreement that has been one of the most acrimonious facets of the relationship between the two countries since they went their separate ways in 1965.
Hun Sen’s electoral victory was marred by controversy but the win signals closer ties between Cambodia and China.