After Tokayev succeeded Nursultan Nazarbayev, who ruled Kazakhstan as a vastly powerful authoritarian leader from 1991 to ...

The strongest Philippine answer to the emerging Chinese narrative may lie not in modern geopolitics but in the historical ...

Taiwan’s privately owned airlines are still reluctant. EVA Air recently said it will continue to consider options for its ...

South Asia’s new governments have discovered that overthrowing an old political order is easier than escaping the economic constraints that helped destroy it in the first place. In less than two years ...

Canada was supposed to be safe. America’s closest neighbor, a NATO member, a G7 democracy and a critical security partner, ...

Perry Warjiyo’s resignation as governor of Bank Indonesia has become more than an unexpected leadership change. Announced on July 27, nearly two years before his second term was due to end in 2028, ...

As Bangkok undergoes its gubernatorial election today, two front-running candidates are proposing sharply different visions for the city. Chadchart Sittipunt, the former Pheu Thai transport minister, ...

In recent months, the number of Iranian-flagged oil tankers as well as “zombie” ships sailing under the name and flag state of long-scrapped vessels through the Singapore Strait has increased markedly ...

As global attention turns to the Epstein files, Asia Sentinel has traced how his network extended into Asia, touching political figures, business elites, and opaque cross-border dealings. While much ...

Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, the nephew of grand doyenne Imelda Marcos, first cousin to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of a former Ambassador to the US and the putative heir to the Philippines’ ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s elevation of an admiral to the position of defense minister for the first time under Communist Party (CCP) rule, and several major reshuffles that rerouted senior naval ...

With dozens of the member countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) club pushing to renegotiate their loans from China, the BRI is rightly said to have become a project of debt collection rather ...