South Asia

Could China’s zero-COVID policy spur a mass protest movement?

As the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues with large-scale and long-term lockdowns on major cities, mass incarceration in quarantine…

2 years ago

ASEAN states unlikely to choose sides between US and China, say officials and experts

When Cambodia’s Minister of National Defense General Tea Banh was seen taking a leisurely dip in the Gulf of Thailand…

2 years ago

Chinese research on Xinjiang mummies seen as promoting revisionist history

A new Chinese study on the ancient populations of Xinjiang purports to show modern-day residents descend from a mix of…

2 years ago

U.S. not seeking to create “Asian NATO,” defense secretary says

The U.S. Defense Secretary emphasized partnership as the main priority for the American security strategy in the Indo-Pacific during a…

2 years ago

Myanmar’s junta yet to send execution orders for former lawmaker, democracy activist

Myanmar’s ruling military junta has not issued execution orders for a former lawmaker from the deposed government and a prominent…

2 years ago

Swimming, or drowning, in the Chinese tide

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently visited the Solomon Islands and seven other South Pacific nations, part of leader Xi…

2 years ago

North Korea makes school uniforms in inter-Korean industrial zone without permission

Some North Korean students will show up for school this summer decked out in high-quality uniforms made in a South…

2 years ago

U.S.-China defense chiefs to meet at Asia security summit

U.S.-China tensions will once again take center stage at a major regional security forum in Singapore this weekend, with the…

2 years ago

Philippines protests new Chinese ‘swarming’ in South China Sea

The Philippines said Thursday it had filed a new diplomatic protest against Beijing over the alleged return of a massive…

2 years ago

Nearly 600 properties seized by junta over alleged ties to armed resistance

Myanmar’s junta has confiscated nearly 600 homes and other buildings owned by people it claims are members or supporters of…

2 years ago

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