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Will Japan’s Russia policy shift again – or settle into ambiguity?

In an attempt to further control religious expression, Uzbekistan has updated its blacklist of extremist sites and drafted a law to expand the list of related crimes. 

A landmark case and recent judicial ruling highlight tensions between healthcare access, professional titles, and risks of quackery undermining public health.

China’s 2026 Two Sessions suggest that AI and robotics are not simply eliminating jobs. They are reshaping labor demand unevenly.

The war in Iran, alongside the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, has vindicated North Korea’s mantra: nuclear weapons are the only guarantee of sovereignty. 

Takakchi and Lee have the two U.S. allies on track to finally put their differences aside.

The removal of three Tajik banks from the EU sanctions list highlights diverging compliance trajectories across Central Asia.

A popularly elected government is being cheered even as it razes the homes of the most deprived and marginalized sections of Nepali society.

Joko Widodo was the country's first leader not to hail from the military or from an elite political family. What did his 10 years in office mean for Indonesia?

“The military government wants to negotiate from a position of strength but we will not succumb to such pressure.”

According to the activist Atin Ito coalition, the early morning visit to Sandy Cay succeeded despite a "heavy Chinese presence" in the area.

While in Hanoi, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae also laid out her revamped vision for the "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" strategy.

Anger over an American media report referring to the country as “Scambodia” needs to be redirected to the root cause of an old pun.

Analyzing Hanoi’s foreign policy from the perspective of its relationship with a single major power misses the forest for the trees.

Unpacking the recent Congress.

Tokyo should take two-step approach to support safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, starting by leveraging its existing force in the region.

Britain recognized a genocide, then did nothing to stop it.

The Iran war is forcing India to confront the tension between strategic autonomy and its commitment to the Indo-Pacific framework. 

On the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders Version 3 (CCMD-3), we revisit the widely repeated claim that China “removed” homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 2001 – and make the case for retiring it.

BRICS is a climate-critical grouping whether it chooses to be or not.