On January 29, Xinhua announced that China had executed 11 members of the “Ming family criminal group” for crimes that ...

Regional private equity firms are positioned to contribute much more to Southeast Asia’s growth than private capital alone.

The country’s first high-speed rail line continues to operate at a loss. Will this place an unsustainable burden on its ...

To avoid higher US tariffs, Sri Lanka is having to act as if allegations of forced labor against China, a country with a high ...

On July 8, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Justice approved a regulation governing registration and operations of the residents of ...

Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won re-election to hold that post for another four ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Indo-Pacific Quad Foreign Ministers in Manila, Philippines, July 22, 2026.

The vulnerabilities of Hormuz and Malacca are fundamentally different – but a closure of the Strait of Malacca would be far ...

Since the haphazard and hasty withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Washington has not recognized the Taliban – or any other group – as the legitimate government ...

The country’s government is leading Southeast Asian efforts to regulate AI technologies, but its approach has several ...

On April 8, 2025, the Russian Ministry of Transport announced the start of the practical implementation of the Trans-Afghan Railway. The ministry’s release noted that specialists of both countries ...

Last week, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its latest report on transnational scam networks, ...