By: Majid Maqbool On June 9, India opened a strategically vital 13.15 km tunnel linking the Kashmir region to Ladakh beneath the 3,529-meter Zojila pass, […]
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The Government Knows the Problem but Life not Getting Better
By: Johanes E.S. Wato Ndambu festival of Kimaam (Kimaghima) people in Yos Sudarso Island of South Papua, Indonesia. Photo from Wikimedia Commons In Indonesia, government […]
Cambodian Cyber Tycoon and ‘Singapore Washing’
By: Andy Wong Ming Jun Mauerburger and coconspirator On June 12, a Canadian social media influencer named Ryan Kelly posted a reel on Instagram exposing […]
Moody’s Echoes Concerns About Chinese Influence in Latin America
By: Toh Han Shih The international rating service Moody’s has joined a substantial chorus warning of China’s growing influence in Latin America, an indication that […]
Thailand’s Ambitions To Become A Regional Air Hub
By: Ben Kiatkwankul Can Suvarnabhumi compete regionally? Thailand is in the middle of its most ambitious aviation expansion in a generation, a five-year investment program […]
America First — But who decides what that means?
By: Hà Giang In April 1975, a small group of people sat in a closed room and decided the fate of millions of Vietnamese. No […]
Shangri-La Dialogue Reveals Asia’s Ambitions, Limits
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel has hosted Asia’s premier security forum for more than two decades. This year, it hosted something rarer: a […]
Indian Supreme Court Sets Value On Homemaker Care
By: Shobha Shukla Photo from United Nations/Pranab Aich India’s Supreme Court last week delivered a landmark judgment measuring the monetary worth of a homemaker’s unpaid […]
Rare Private Indian Art Collection Goes up For Record Sale
By: John Elliott Abindranath Tagore’s The Spinner of a Nation’s Destiny A rare auction with the entire 93 lots coming from a single collection produced […]
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A Country That Cannot Investigate Itself Cannot Govern Itself
By: Lucell A. Larawan Inquirer photo On the morning of June 4, 18 former Philippine marines arrived at the Philippine Senate to testify about a […]
Indie Film Causes Consternation Among Overseas Chinese
By: Xiaochen Su In less than a month, an indie film with an unknown cast became China’s second-highest grossing film of 2026. Dear You, with […]
The Dark Side of Asia’s ‘Miracle Diet’
By: Tomoaki Takei Multinational pharma giant Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro (tirzepatide), the dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist, is at the center of a rapidly escalating public health […]
Singapore Clamps Down on Foreign Interference Involving South Asians
By: Toh Han Shih CMIOs Singaporean authorities are alleging foreign interference in the country’s domestic affairs, stoking racial divisions with South Asians as targets via […]
Thailand Seeks to Revive Its Peninsular White Elephant
By: Ben Raiwin Kiatkwankul Three feasibility studies, zero committed foreign capital, 349 years of revivals. Thailand’s Land Bridge is back on the cabinet agenda. Prime […]
Malaysia’s Anwar Faces A Reformist Archrival
By: Wong Chin Huat Scattered pictures/of the smiles we left behind/Smiles we gave to one another/For the way we were… Three and a half years […]
China’s Xi Visits North Korea Amid Concerns Kim Drifts Closer To Moscow
By: Shim Jae Hoon Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a two-day state visit to Pyongyang today amid concerns North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is […]
TRANSCRIPT: Media analyst takes apart US corporate media
By: Majid Maqbool In his book How to Sell a Genocide (Pluto Press), media analyst Adam H. Johnson, who clearly delivers from the left side […]
Philippine Infrastructure Scandal: Wrapped In Blue Ribbon
By: Manuel L. Quezon III The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the upper house’s primary investigative arm for handling allegations of corruption and abuse of […]
Uncomfortable Undertones in Lee’s Sweep of South Korean Polls
By: Shim Jae Hoon Under the cover of the smashing victory of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s ruling Democratic Party in this week’s local […]