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When the law lags behind, citizens end up doing investigative work themselves, and pay for it when the people they expose strike back.

For a military that has not fought a large-scale war since 1953, experience on the Ukrainian front is tremendously valuable to North Korea.

Dushanbe's emergency hedge against Russia's fuel crisis puts Tajikistan in the path of U.S. secondary sanctions.

Since 2025, Tokyo has acted boldly and decisively to ward off foreign AI-related threats by developing AI for Japan, in Japan.

As Bhutan sells its new Gelephu Mindfulness City mega-project to the world, exiled communities see a high-tech gloss over an unresolved past.

Navigating a new era of resource regulation

ASEAN is looking for a third partner. Japan fits the bill — if it plays its cards right

Australia is set to preside over the negotiations at the upcoming COP31 climate conference in Türkiye, but its support for regional partners will need to be sustained.

Over the past decade, hundreds of political activists and ordinary people have been subjected to criminal prosecution under Article 112.

The risks of fragmentation

The role of alternative financing

Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. appear to have given little thought to which country should build what, or who controls the key technologies that every shipyard depends on.

Preferential access has taken Pakistan about as far as it can without deeper reforms at home. 

The Republic of China Air Force waited 20 years for these aircraft. What are they for?

How China is weaponizing WWII history

Previously, India sorted out its differences with friendly nations quietly. Last week, it aired its grievance with Washington publicly.

Under Prabowo Subianto, leadership on the issue has been lacking – and tens of millions are suffering as a result.

The Chinese activities around the Philippines' northernmost province represent the opening of a new front in the maritime struggle between the two nations.

As Washington’s reliability wavers, Tokyo and Canberra are learning to depend on each other.

Vladimir Putin’s first-ever visit to a northern territory claimed by Japan comes amid a steady uptick in Russian naval activity near Japan’s southernmost islands.