Tag: Asia

As U.S. President Joe Biden completes his first year in office this week, how should his Asia policy be judged? Set against the lofty expectations of his early months in ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The mass protests in Kazakhstan began peacefully over the New Year’s weekend, with marchers denouncing a sharp rise in fuel prices. They spread quickly from the western ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep! Lacking motivation to close out the week? Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top arms control negotiator, Sergei Ryabkov, is jamming to singers Kanye West and ...

MOSCOW — Kazakh authorities said Wednesday they detained 1,678 more people in the past 24 hours over their alleged participation in the violent unrest that rocked the former Soviet nation ...

MOSCOW — The president of Kazakhstan announced Tuesday that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the country in two days after completing its mission. The ...

WASHINGTON — Russia’s decision to send paratroopers into Kazakhstan, where a crackdown on violent anti-government protests has left dozens dead, injects additional uncertainty into upcoming talks over a possible Russian ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s leader returned home Saturday from the first visit by a head of state to Myanmar since the military takeover last year plunged it into turmoil, ...

MOSCOW — The former head of Kazakhstan’s counterintelligence and anti-terror agency has been arrested on charges of attempted government overthrow in the wake of violent protests that the president has ...

BOSTON — A refugee who survived the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule has become the first Cambodian American mayor in the United States. Sokhary Chau, a city councilor in Lowell, Massachusetts, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Much of Asia has largely managed to keep omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is ...