The resignation of Vietnamese president Nguyen Xuan Phuc last month had an inevitability about it. The media were rife with speculation for weeks

It’s not clear to many Indonesians why President Joko Widodo has maintained faith in Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto, the military doctor who

Myanmar's junta said Tuesday it will heed regional pleas to stop violence only when the coup-hit country "returns to stability," as fresh fighting erupted

She has been dubbed the "Goddess of Democracy" and found fans among politicians and actors. There is little doubt that Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow is

Myanmar’s junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrived at the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta with

Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to improve its counter-strike capabilities against China, the Yomiuri Shimbun

CHIANG MAI - Another military airbase has come under rocket attack in central Myanmar, a shadowy but strategic assault that even tightly censored,

When Deng Xiaoping visited Washington in January 1979, US president Jimmy Carter asked him to show some flexibility in allowing more Chinese to emigrate

Chinese tech giant Huawei has announced the introduction of its own Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, ending its dependence on America’s Oracle and making another move away from vulnerab...

CHIANG MAI – At just 43, Major General Twan Mrat Naing may be the youngest and most successful rebel commanders in Myanmar. The force he leads, the Arakan

Just as Ethiopian government forces appear to have turned the tide in the country’s so-called civil war, the Biden administration is pushing for US

China’s carrier-based aircraft may soon be equipped with hypersonic weapons, thanks to the development of a new sealant that protects against storage at

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has recetnly conducted a scenario planning on the war in the Taiwan Strait.

A top British barrister has pulled out of leading a team prosecuting a group of prominent Hong Kong dissidents, the city's authorities said Wednesday,

JAKARTA - Nuclear is a notable absentee from the list of renewables in Indonesian power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara’s (PLN) latest plan for the next

HONG KONG - Around 42% of expatriates are considering leaving Hong Kong, with most saying they are uncomfortable with the new national security law

When Myanmar’s military junta seeks to gain a tactical advantage against pro-democracy demonstrators or ethnic resistance groups, it sometimes deploys

SINGAPORE – Advocates are sounding the alarm over a rapid deterioration of press freedom conditions in Malaysia following a series of police raids,

A prominent Hong Kong activist was among 12 people caught by China Coast Guard fleeing the city on a speedboat heading for Taiwan, police in the city said

NEW YORK - China’s semiconductor industry has lagged the US in patents and lagged South Korea and Taiwan in fabrication, but it hopes to leapfrog its

NEW YORK ­– Taiwan’s chip fabricators signed an agreement on December 3 to create their own semiconductor equipment industry, opening an “option to decouple from the West,” in the view of a prominent...

On Sunday, Pakistani opposition parties after hours of deliberation launched a joint platform against the government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

In Myanmar, where the May onset of the southwest monsoon typically heralds a stand-down in the country’s forever brush wars, rains already sweeping the

China's crackdown in Hong Kong has left Japanese finance firms "very much afraid" and reconsidering whether to remain in the city, a senior banker said

China contends that it is selflessly coming to the aid of the pandemic-stricken developing world by exporting nearly as much Covid-19 vaccine as it uses

Chinese state media is advancing a possible alternative explanation for the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, one that claims that the contagion may have

As South Korea’s military has grown stronger, the United States now expects it to play a larger role in maintaining regional stability. General Paul

In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs.

JAKARTA - Indonesia is replete with stories of the rich and powerful evading the corrupted short arms of the law. Take, for instance, the notorious

Chinese state researchers are calling for the development of anti-satellite capabilities against Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

YEREVAN – Azerbaijan's war for Nagorno-Karabakh, originally intended as a quick and easy battle, has dragged long beyond its expected time frame, cost and

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The

Leading Russian oligarchs such as aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, Swiss-based oil baron Viktor Vekselberg, and nickel king Vladimir Potanin have all but

BANGKOK – Cambodia wants to divert Southeast Asia's Mekong River into a planned US$1.7 billion, Chinese-financed shipping canal to reach a deep-sea port

NEW YORK – $3 trillion of cryptocurrency assets are, or soon will be, vulnerable to hacking by quantum computers, one of China’s top cryptographers told

For four years, former Philippine Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio and others like former Foreign Minister Alberto del Rosario have vented at

In September 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and signed a series of

Isn’t it surprising how fast the topic of Syrian mercenaries in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war has faded out, despite reports about thousands of foreign

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KUALA LUMPUR – Mohamad Hasan, deputy president of the United Malays National Organization and deputy chairman of its ruling Barisan Nasional (BN)

Persistently portrayed by Western media as a Moscow ally, Serbia is arguably drawing closer to China than Russia.   On April 10, China delivered HQ-22

On August 27, Pakistani investigative journalist Ahmad Noorani dropped a bombshell with a story on the assets of retired Lieutenant-General Asim

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made headlines over the weekend when his claim the Ukraine war was “launched against” Russia provoked laughter from

Germany will allow Huawei to build out part of its 5G network, the business daily Handelsblatt reported last week after viewing a new draft law that the Angela Merkel government will submit to the...

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a plan to relax strict Covid-19 lockdown measures imposed across major cities including Metro

The US continues to build supercarriers at a time when their strategic and deterrent value is in serious doubt with the advent of hypersonic weapons. This

Five years into his chaotic tenure, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is suddenly remembering why he was elected back in 2016. On Monday, his sixth and

NEW YORK - Russian forces are driving the Ukraine army into pockets of envelopment, well-informed European military sources told Asia Times. “The Russians are in no hurry,” a European military...

MANILA - Calls for sanctions and accountability for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s lethal war on drugs campaign are gaining global momentum as the

After almost a year of pleading with their North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for advanced main battle tanks (MBTs), the alliance is finally giving

SEOUL - Japan signed on Thursday a new security treaty with Australia, a fellow middle power that is similarly aligning against an increasingly assertive

CALCUTTA – When India dispatched a battalion of para-commandos to neighboring Maldives to put down an attempted coup in November 1988, the intervening

The US accuses China of threatening democracy by not conforming to the post-World War II global order. But why should it? That system was meant to sustain

JAKARTA - Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is considering the purchase of eight stealthy Mogami-class multi-mission frigates as part

Historians still quibble about what event marked the end of the Roman Empire. Some future historians might choose Jan. 16, 2021 as the fatal moment for the American Empire. That’s when the People’s...

The people of Myanmar are facing a humanitarian catastrophe, with large-scale suffering caused by violence and displacement, an economic and food security

The official visit by Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu to Russia on April 16-19 prima facie underscored the two countries’ emergent need to deepen

The US is seeking to woo India away from Russia by dangling its most advanced combat aircraft, playing on India’s need to keep pace with rival Pakistan

NEC, Japan's leading producer of telecom equipment, and NTT, the country's largest telecom network operator, recently announced plans for joint R&D