×

Japan’s Billions Are the Wildcard in Southeast Asia’s Aid Race

Credit: Depositphotos For the last two decades, the contest for influence in Southeast Asia has almost always been conceptualized as a two-horse race: China floods...

Read out all

Vietnam’s Top Leader To Lam to Pay State Visits to Australia and New Zealand

To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and president of Vietnam, delivers a keynote address at the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in...

Read out all

Where is Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi?

A stencil graffiti image of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi by an unknown artist in Bangkok, Thailand. Credit: Photo 49495792 © 1000words | Dreamstime.com The...

Read out all

How the World Learned to Live with the Exclusion of Afghan Women

Credit: Photo 186255027 | Afghanistan Women © Tim Gurney | Dreamstime.com Five years ago, when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the world watched...

Read out all

Pete Hegseth urges allies to boost defence spending amid ‘alarm’ over China’s buildup

Advertisement Asia Pete Hegseth urges allies to boost defence spending amid ‘alarm’ over China’s buildup The Pentagon chief, speaking at the Shangri-La...

Read out all

Three wounded in Swiss train station stabbing labelled ‘act of terror’

Swiss authorities arrest suspect who had come to authorities’ attention in 2015 for distributing ISIL propaganda.

Read out all

Trump administration sues states for denying ICE agents undercover plates

The Department of Justice has argued that states are obliged to give ICE vehicles confidential licence plates.

Read out all

EU sanctions ‘extremist’ Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

European Union says sanctioned individuals and groups have violated the rights of Palestinians.

Read out all

Demands grow for closure of US detention centre over inhumane conditions

A group of US lawmakers are joining protesters in demanding a controversial immigration detention centre be shut down.

Read out all

Europe hit by record-breaking heatwave

European countries are issuing heat warnings as an unseasonal heatwave drives record temperatures across the continent.

Read out all

US judge rejects immediate block on Trump’s mail-in voting executive order

Judge Carl Nichols says Democrats’ legal challenge is premature as the administration moves to implement the measure.

Read out all

Defiant Lebanese families refuse to leave Tyre after homes bombed

Families in the Lebanese city of Tyre saw their homes destroyed by Israeli bombs just hours after they were ordered evac

Read out all

Guatemala denies agreeing to US strikes against drug traffickers

President Bernardo Arevalo’s government says it requested security cooperation but did not approve US attacks.

Read out all

Colombia’s first left-wing gov’t has reduced poverty, but has pile of debt

A big challenge for Colombia’s next president will be how to reduce country’s debt without sacrificing social gains. 

Read out all