In April 2026, a Murakami-class Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer transited the Taiwan Strait. Such passages have become more frequent amid rising tensions over Taiwan since 2025.

The Future of Investment and Trade Partnership, with 19 members and counting, is championing open and fair trade at a time ...

An asset freeze could be the first step of an acrimonious fight with the foreign oil majors developing one of the country’s ...

Besides the South China Sea, there are various waterways under contention, from open ocean to marshlands and rivers.

This is an important milestone in India’s evolving multi-layered long-range air defense architecture envisaged under Mission ...

Protesters at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, including Cockroach Janta Party founder, Abhijeet Dibke (in yellow T-shirt), celebrate the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on July ...

The costs of Pakistan’s dependence on imports for medicines and vaccines are huge, Chinese investment could end this reliance ...

Vietnam is set to order social media platforms to limit the access of children under 16 to social media, becoming the latest nation and the third in Southeast Asia to tighten online safety provisions ...

In this photo released by the Philippine military, Filipino sailors take part in the 17th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity, a joint exercise with the United States and Japan, which took ...

A government feasibility study found what many already expected: that the project’s financial returns did not justify the ...

Nippon Ishin has, through its alliance with Takaichi, exerted an influence on the Japanese government that far exceeds its parliamentary strength. Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae (second from ...

This photo, provided by North Korean state media, shows the Choe Hyon destroyer on the occasion of the ship’s commissioning, ...