Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s disgraced president, is ousted
SOUTH KOREA’S constitutional court ruled unanimously on Friday to oust Yoon Suk Yeol, the country’s embattled president. This...
Australia’s election could come down to independent MPs
AUSTRALIA’S CAMPAIGN season is officially open, following weeks of speculation. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has set...
Ending Central Asia’s endless squabbles over eccentric borders
Drums were banged and trumpets blasted when emotional residents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan crossed the border between the t...
Myanmar’s junta takes advantage of a devastating earthquake
Since March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to show...
India sees opportunity, as well as risk, in Trump’s trade war
However one views Donald Trump’s trade policy, he is not far wrong in calling India a “tariff king”. Jawaharlal Nehru, its fi...
As Chinese drills begin, Taiwan expels mainland influencers
IN THE AIR and seas around Taiwan, China’s armed forces launched large-scale military exercises on April 1st, warning that th...
The junta’s spite worsens Myanmar’s catastrophic quake
OUTSIDERS HAD dared wonder if the enormous earthquake which struck Myanmar on March 28th might bring a pause in its awful civ...
Myanmar’s earthquake piles misery on civil war
IT WILL TAKE some days for the full toll of the powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28th to become clear. The ep...
How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan
WHO COULD have known that on an ordinary Monday morning in 1995 a commute in Tokyo would turn into a scene from hell? On Marc...
Japanese people are starting to quit their jobs
Kawata Yasutoshi was never cut out for traditional Japanese corporate life. As a former guitarist in a heavy-metal band, he f...