Asia

I’ve spent the past two years traveling to 20 countries. While most of these countries — from the Maldives to France — were among the world’s most popular, it was...

South Korea’s Unification Ministry reported on Thursday that North Korea has ordered all of its overseas students to return home for “political indoctrination.” The Grand People’s Study House is the...

A vital region in the Global South—Southeast Asia—has long been missing from BRICS, a grouping whose acronym stands for founding members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. As BRICS...

Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian armed group blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, announced they’re disbanding. A report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)...

There is an increasingly real possibility of a second Trump administration entering office in January 2025. Southeast Asia is better prepared this time around than it was in 2016. Regional...

(Bloomberg) — Port congestion in some of Asia’s busiest trade hubs may persist into August, as ships diverting away from the region’s most clogged maritime gateways cause bottlenecks at others....

(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rose, tracking a record S&P 500 close, on optimism about US interest-rate cuts after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said inflation is getting back on a...

As Europe was waking up to news of U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, one top Eastern European diplomat made an oblique historical reference.  “It’s important to...

A United Nations-led meeting held in Qatar with the Taliban on increasing engagement with Afghanistan does not translate into a recognition of their government, a U.N. official said Monday. The...