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An essay contest for public school children was a propaganda exercise in disguise, with Japan and Taiwan as the targets.

The Lai administration immediately sought to align itself with the United States, while debate in Taiwan rages over what the strikes mean for cross-strait dynamics.

According to RFE/RL's Uzbek Service, Ismail Jahongirov – sentenced last year to 23 years in prison – died by suicide while in the prison’s solitary confinement unit.

"If this was a conservative triumph, it was one built not on ideology but on the disciplined mobilization of patronage networks that had been consolidating for years."

Jakarta has made numerous concessions in the agreement but there is little evidence of reciprocity from Washington.

In any scenario where Taiwan loses its democratic sovereignty, Taiwanese women lose first and lose most.

As conflict unfurls across the Middle East, Asian countries – U.S. friends and foes alike – are watching carefully.

The institutional machinery driving the Beijing summit is already too far advanced to reverse, and the Iran crisis has made holding it more urgent, not less.

Legal, political, and sovereign constraints make the militarization of the Chinese-operated Port of Chancay far less plausible than critics suggest.

Team Mirai, a new party founded in May 2025, secured 11 seats in the lower house.

In recent years, enforcement agencies have publicly attributed large-scale cryptocurrency theft and laundering activity to state-aligned actors in the region.

The United States risks a permanent quagmire in the Middle East – which will also redefine the strategic balance of the Korean Peninsula and beyond.

For investors, there is real potential – but also real risk.

Many Sri Lankans see recent shootings as violence due to underworld rivalry rather than an existential threat to the state.

At a time when Pakistan is grappling with a volatile situation along its Afghan border, instability on the Iran-Pakistan border will add to its problems.

Animal rights activists say that viral online content about animals like 'Punch-kun' has the potential to drive the illegal wildlife trade. 

A binary U.S.-China framing obscures the layered and multi-directional character of Cambodia’s current foreign policy.

The Bill was a part of a package of reforms that Anwar announced in January, in response to growing discontent within the ranks of his unity government.

The release is designed to reinforce the legitimacy of the incoming “civilian” administration and communicate signals of reform to foreign governments.

As the competition between the United States and China intensifies, Seoul and Singapore are laying the groundwork for strategic cooperation in a variety of fields.