Taiwan expresses support, solidarity with Hong Kong
Taiwan advocacy groups call for retaliation against Hong Kong extradition bill. Dozens of civic groups in Taiwan called on the government on June 11 to adopt concrete regulations…
China blames ‘lawlessness’ for Hong Kong
Lawlessness undermining rule of law in Hong Kong, says China Daily editorial. The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has explained many times the proposed…
Hong Kong protests turn violent
At least 72 people taken to hospital during clashes with police. At least 72 people were injured and taken to hospital during clashes between police and protesters on Wednesday…
Nepal Prime Minister’s speech in UK is filled with irony
Nepal’s prime minister celebrated democratic freedoms in his UK speech but it contradicts what he’s doing at home. While Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s Monday speech at…
Hong Kong leader defiant despite protest over extradition bill.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says extradition Bill has to be passed as opponents call for fresh protests. A day after what organisers touted as an unprecedented protest with a…
Mass protest in Hong Kong over extradition law
Proposed changes to extradition law in Hong Kong draws record number to the streets. In what organisers described as the biggest protest seen in the territory since it was…
Democratic Indonesia exemplifies truly Asia
An op-ed from Niruban Balachandran in the Jakarta Post. On a warm day in 1951, my grandfather and his family landed at the old Jakarta Kemayoran Airport to begin his diplomatic…
There is a cancer inside Thai democracy, and it isn’t the military
Despite numerous coups and seizures of powers, the military is not the real cancer inside Thai democracy. General Prayuth Chan-ocha was elected by Thailand’s parliament on…
Junta chief returns as Thai prime minister
General Prayuth was voted in by parliament late Wednesday. General Prayut Chan-o-cha was elected as prime minister in a Parliamentary vote late on Wednesday night after more than…
Thai pro-junta party unable to announce coalition, yet
Phalang Pracharat still short on seats to form coalition. Phalang Pracharat had yet to announce the establishment of a coalition as of Tuesday, saying its aim was to set up a…