Tag: Asia

“Attention, this is Moscow speaking!” A Soviet citizen knew that something important would follow this famous radio announcement’s opening sentence. From the shores of the Arctic, the city of Vladivostok, ...

Shops and businesses shut in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general strike to denounce new laws that allow Indians to ...

While populism is sweeping through Europe, North America, and now Brazil, it is also making gains in Southeast Asia. The region’s autocratic-leaning populists—those who have already ruled and those who ...

Founded in 1999, the group of 20 commonly known as G-20 is an international forum of the governments and central bank governors from twenty major global economies. The nineteen nations ...

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan's teenage activist, on Thursday was awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. "Today, we decided to let the world know that our hope for a ...

A war crimes court has found Islamist Ghulam Azam guilty of five charges relating to Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in ...

Afghan security forces have tackled heavily-armed militants who seized a building near the main airport in the capital Kabul. Officials said seven gunmen had been killed in the five-storey building ...

In March, a young Tibetan woman named Kalkyi began making frequent visits to a monastery in Barma, a township in China's Sichuan Province. The slim, rosy-cheeked mother of four was ...

Despite no one wanting to see conflict in Asia, the ranks of doomsayers and worrywarts seem to grow by the day. The specter haunting the continent is that of China’s ...

In Afghanistan, the lines between Taliban finance and legitimate commerce are often blurred. Matthew Green takes us through the clandestine world of the currency dealers suspected of secretly funding the ...