Beyond the iron coffin lid: the Nikkei 225 surges, but can Japan reckon with the ghosts of its past?
The Nikkei 225, Japan’s stock index, eclipsed 40,000 points for the first time on Monday 4 March, as loose monetary policy and a weak...
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Corruption, Accountability and Islamism: Malaysian Politics 8 years after 1MDB
On Friday 2nd of February 2024, news emerged that the sentence of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak, convicted for his role in...
Trouble in the DMZ
By Benjamin Sachs Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been on the rise recently. North Koreans this month claimed to have tested the...
What's next after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh?
By Maya Sgaravato-Grant After 32 years of resilience, it took less than 24 hours from the first shell fired by Azerbaijani forces for...
Taiwanese Democracy Prevails, as Beijing Hides in the Shadows
By Yusuf Khalid Taiwanese democracy has spoken, and Beijing has erupted in fury. In a highly tense election January 12th, now-incumbent...
A New Stage in Myanmar's Civil War?
By Mathieu Yap At a speech in late September 2023, Myanmar’s military ruler General Min Aung Hlaing declared, “At present, the whole...
Xi’s corruption crackdown is a countdown to war
BY MARTIN DAY Generally, politics in China is shrouded in a veil through which very little information escapes. That’s why recent...
China's complicity in the deportation of North Korean defectors
BY LILY MECKEL Image: Flikr/Roman Harak North Korea is known to be one of the most hostile and isolated countries in the world. Since the...
BRICS: Is the economic sun now rising in the East?
BY SANJANA IYER From Bollywood to Brazilian soaps, the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) certainly have a...
A captain's crusade: Imran Khan's hardest innings against corruption
BY SYED HUSSAIN Just five years ago, ex-cricketing legend turned Prime Minister, Imran Khan, heralded a "new beginning" - a vision to...
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