Author: Asia Sentinel

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun In a dusty rural town 50 kilometers south of Manila, an elderly male patient sits in a simple clinic as […]

By: Majid Maqbool Over the two decades following 2001, Afghan women earned law degrees, rose to the bench as judges and made all efforts to […]

Happy birthday to us! Today (August 6), Asia Sentinel completes 20 years of informed analysis, news, and commentary on business, politics, economics, and pressing social […]

By: Joe Heaver Hundreds of scamsters arrested in Bali While police raids on online scam operations in Indonesia are no longer a rare occurrence, with […]

By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo’s resignation as governor of Bank Indonesia has become more than an unexpected leadership change. Announced on […]

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Although the Strait of Hormuz has dominated global attention, with Iran’s intermittent disruptions threatening one of the world’s most important energy […]

By: Shim Jae Hoon From security ties to trade and business relations, the US-South Korean alliance, long hailed as iron-clad and most successful in East […]

By: John Elliott When the Thing with Feathers Turned Red (after Tintoretto) by Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw (2021-22) The timing wasn’t coincidental. Attracted by cricket […]

By: Toh Han Shih After millennia of folk belief in the efficacy of rhino horn for fever, tiger bone for strength, and captive bear bile […]

By: Majid Maqbool The killing of a police constable in the Kashmir Valley city of Anantnag, allegedly by Islamists militants, has triggered one of the […]

By: Maria Elena Ahner For much of the past three years, the world’s strategic attention has been fixed on the Red Sea crisis, instability around […]

By: Split Nguyen Six hundred miles from its headwaters in southeast China, the Red River flows through Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, and then through a […]

By: John Elliott Behind the emotional scenes and confrontations between brutal police and peaceful young demonstrators in Delhi that have gripped international attention in recent […]

By: Thai Scam Watch Although military rule in Thailand officially ended years ago, its footprint in the boardrooms of the country’s biggest state-owned companies is […]

By: Khanh Vu Duc The war with Iran has forced an overdue reckoning that reaches well beyond the Middle East, illustrated dramatically when US Secretary […]

By: Sherab Woeser Photo from New York Post On July 2, began a livestream from his phone, broadcasting the final moments of his life. The […]

By: Nava Thakuria India’s renewed debate over whether passports prove citizenship has revived anxieties among Muslims, particularly as political leaders speculate about a possible nationwide […]

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The US-Saudi nuclear agreement is not really about reactors. It’s about rules and Washington deciding its own rules are negotiable. That […]

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun Last week’s successful maritime strike carried out by US Central Command against Iran’s major Bandar Abbas Naval Base is a […]

By: Tim Daiss As escalating hostilities between the US and Iran push crude oil to multi-week highs – with Brent futures surging toward US$98 a […]