Much of the world has paid scant attention to Myanmar since the coup. Western countries, which did the most to encourage ...

What is taking place inside Myanmar is a humanitarian disaster, but it matters for another, more abstract reason, too.

India is enhancing regional influence through infrastructure like KMMTTP, reducing reliance on Bangladesh, while leveraging ...

Former Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the need for a draft policy framework on internal security in the northeast region.

China has used diplomacy of silence on the India-Pakistan issue for decades. Even as Pakistan deployed several Chinese ...

Despite eight decades of UN operations, the world currently faces the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II, with 56 active conflicts involving 92 countries. Despite the vaunted ...

European stocks traded higher on Thursday ahead of an expected interest-rate cut by the European Central Bank. Investors have fully priced in a 25 basis-point cut, bringing the deposit rate to 2%, and ...

Well, the ECB is widely expected to lower rates again Thursday for an eighth consecutive meeting, bringing the key rate down by two percentage points since this time last year. The Fed, by contrast, ...

The 80th anniversary parade in Moscow was not only a depressing abuse of history, but also a way to show that Russia is far from isolated.

Circa 1989: The world changed its mind. “Boat people” had become an albatross round the neck. Worse, it gave rise to a new breed of boat people, economic refugees: farmers, factory workers and ...

Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant ...

Political dynasties are stronger than ever in Southeast Asia, as the offspring of former leaders hold power in half of the region's countries.