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The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election was a critical test for Ishiba’s leadership and his party, and the LDP failed it.

Hong Kong's increasingly brittle government responds to children’s books, mobile games, and foreign holidays with legal threats and censorship.

A confluence of factors – U.S. strikes on Iran and a focus on defense spending hikes – likely led Prime Minister Ishiba to stay home.

As Treasurer Jim Chalmers put it, “We want good things to happen, we’ve got to stop strangling good things from happening.”

The Southeast Asian bloc is well-positioned to play an active role in managing, though not solving, regional conflicts.

Amnesty International claims that abuses including torture are being carried out on a "mass scale" in scamming compounds across the country.

Critics say that the military regime's election plans are intended to enshrine military rule behind a civilian façade.

Mirziyoyeva, the president’s daughter, brings with her as an adviser another familiar face: Komil Allamjonov.

As China continues its quest to win over Taiwan’s allies, which countries might be the next to switch?

The U.S. government's "reciprocal tariffs" have prompted a rapid overhaul of trade blocs in the Asia-Pacific, especially in Southeast Asia.

Any precedent that legitimizes or supports strikes on nuclear infrastructure increases security risks for Pakistan.

The country has normalized mob culture where force, fear, and informal power often override law and justice.

The Trump administration may try to squeeze more concessions out of Australia as part of “the art of the deal,” but it does not want to spike the relationship entirely.

Despite UNHCR’s insistence that biometric enrollment is necessary to uphold program integrity, critics say the policy effectively punishes people for trying to protect their identity and data.

Despite some positive trends, the social sciences in Uzbekistan remain trapped in the shadow of the past.

Access to education now moves in step with trade, technology, and supply chain leverage.

No prime minister, no problem: Mongolia's 10th International Conference on Northeast Asian Security proceeded as planned.

The political theater of sending Marines to Los Angeles subtly eats at force readiness, morale, and urgent preparation for a large-scale, complex, distant war.

“Western governments and companies must urgently confront the reality that many critical mineral supply chains they rely on are underpinned by Uyghur forced labor.”

In the shadow of the recent India-Pakistan military clashes, defense spending has been increased by 20 percent since last year.