Japan’s politics are in flux. With the LDP losing ground and voter behavior evolving, political expert Tobias Harris dissects ...

Having awoken Thursday to news of a long-awaited and long-feared new U.S. tariff regime, key American allies in East Asia ...

SEOUL - South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule on April 4 on whether to strip impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol of ...

As the U.S. becomes less democratic, Trump appears interested in promoting populist rulers around the world. It could ...

Despite reason of motivation, Ahimsa was a noble decree. If not; history’s noblest. For two thousand years Ahimsa had been our Asian moral code. Even the many satyagrahas or passive resistance, with ...

Beijing quickly sent first responders and pledged US$13.76 million in aid, surpassing US contribution. Read more at ...

The average life expectancy of a Pakistani, a basic measure of well-being, is the lowest in South Asia, just above Afghanistan. According to the World Bank, “Pakistan faces a silent, deep human ...

Myanmar's junta announced a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday (Apr 2) as the death toll from a devastating earthquake rose and ...

Vasant Bhatt, a 20-year-old political science major at the University of Houston, enrolled in a course called the Lived Hindu Religion expecting "nuanced discussion" and "space for the lived faith ...

For a long time Central Asia’s most volatile frontier has played host to deadly clashes. But in mid-March Sadyr Japarov, ...

Muhammad Yunus’s visit to Beijing was neither the sweeping success it is being portrayed as, nor a failure. The truth lies ...

Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a ...