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 ...

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

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

On August 29, Meta reported that it had recently taken down thousands of accounts and Facebook pages that “were part of the largest known cross-platform covert operation in the world,” run by ...

The vast difference between Canada and China in political ideologies, views on international affairs, and trade practices makes further collaboration difficult. Just before Canadians headed to the ...

It’s been a year since Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected president of Sri Lanka. His electoral victory broke the seven-decade duopoly of Sri Lanka’s two main parties, the United National Party (UNP ...

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 ...

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