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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has stated that "the national government is moving and we will not leave Mindanao behind."

China’s reach is extending beyond the First Island Chain. Japan is taking note.

Across Asia, governments are experimenting with policies designed to capitalize on the rapid expansion of remote work.

Climate stress, shrinking glaciers, and fragmented governance are pushing the region toward a new era of systemic vulnerability.

An entire generation of Afghan girls have had their aspirations suspended by policies systematically excluding them from education and public life.

Last year, Lee stated in his inauguration speech that pragmatism and the national interest were the guiding principles of his presidency. 

The ban may remove JAAC from the formal political arena, but it cannot remove the grievances that brought it into existence.

The return of the Japan-South Korea naval search and rescue exercise after a nine-year hiatus reflects strategic convergence, but history still casts a long shadow.

Israel is rarely mentioned in discussions of Uzbek labor migration. Yet thousands of Uzbek workers have quietly made it a significant destination.

Affiliation with the Chhatra League, the students’ wing of the Awami League, before October 2024, was not an offense. It cannot be treated as one now.

A new political center is taking shape in Japan, one that is pushing the old center-left to the margins of the political spectrum. 

Opportunity, risk and the commitment gap

Cargo-laden trucks are already plying six new overland routes linking its major ports to the Iranian border and onward to Central Asia.

Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said that Bangkok will cease all other bilateral talks while mediation is in progress.

Min Aung Hlaing's “civilian” government rests on a sophisticated propaganda architecture, and the independent media needed to challenge it is running out of funds.

The U.S., not Delhi or Caracas, announced Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s visit to India last week. The U.S. role in pushing the oil trade is hard to ignore.

The rise of majoritarian politics globally, combined with a shifting geopolitical calculus around India, has created openings for the RSS that did not exist a decade ago.

The grouping is unlikely to harden into an “Asian NATO.” For Beijing, the more consequential contest is over supply chains, technology standards, and the rules of the Indo-Pacific economy.

Why Seoul picked the PPP incumbent yet again, and what it means for the city.

Is a teenage girl being positioned as North Korea's next leader?