Intergenerational conflicts loom as the tax base shrinks and the national debt rises. Unhelpfully, South Korea’s many political cleavages tend to map onto the two main political parties rather than ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

The political landscape has been impacted by ... junta could reshape not just Myanmar but also the geopolitical map of South Asia, with direct implications for Bangladesh, India, and China.

The number of foreign travellers visiting Seoul has steadily increased since the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more at straitstimes ...

HANOI -- A usually little-noticed appointment to a local Communist Party committee in Vietnam heralds a return to prominence for politicians from the country's south, and has sparked a buzz among ...

SEOUL -- The recent political turmoil in South Korea stopped the country's central bank from cutting its key interest rate on Thursday, its chief said, with most board members worried that such a ...

Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington, where the two leaders will discuss the Gaza ...

SEOUL: South Korea's central bank said on Monday (Jan 20) it had slashed its 2025 growth forecast because of the political crisis triggered by President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law ...

SEOUL :South Korea's economy barely grew in the fourth quarter of 2024, as the country's worst political crisis in ... Yoon's Dec. 3 martial law edict. Asia's fourth-largest economy has struggled ...

Over the course of his political career, 25 states have voted ... The largest concentration of them is in the South: North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana ...

Pradeep Chhibber studies the political parties, party systems, representation, and the politics of South Asia. He has written Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond, Oxford ...

A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...