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One thing became dramatically apparent in the economic sphere following the Cold War: capitalism was ubiquitous, but it looked very different in Japan, Germany, the US and China.
Almost 70 years after Indian independence, tribes once classed as criminals are still fighting for their freedom.
To understand Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and the public support for killing drug dealers and users, we need to distinguish the empirical from the normative – the ‘what is’ from ‘what should be’.
Our inward focus on marriage equality means Australia is largely absent from efforts to increase respect for LGBTI people in our region.
India’s prime minister won a landslide victory promising to improve his people’s lives. There’s a very long way to go.
Japan is already in the midst of one delicate constitutional debate – and now it’s been confronted with another.
Two of East Asia’s biggest powers are still technically at war and deadlocked over contested territories. Now one of them wants to be friends.
For decades the polite fiction in East Asia has been that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been “in the driving seat” as far as regional diplomacy was concerned. Only the Southeast…
Genes are important in predicting the risk of myopia, but they alone cannot explain the epidemic.
A landmark ruling against Beijing will not solve one of the world’s most worrying territorial disputes.
The decision on China’s activities in the South China Sea undoubtedly represents a sweeping victory for the Philippines. It is, however, unenforceable.
The problem confronting political parties is that the people in leadership positions are intellectually and emotionally ill-equipped to grasp the complex transformation in human affairs now under way.
Vast reserves of crucial helium have been found in Tanzania. Here’s how the scientists did it.
Beneath the usual pomp and circumstance of Obama’s weeklong visit to Asia lies a clear message for aggressors in the region. An East Asia expert from UC Berkeley reads between the lines.
Sino-Japanese rivalry might well come to dominate this year’s G7 and G20.
Just when you might have thought the Philippines was on the mend, morbid symptoms of untreated problems re-emerge. It really shouldn’t be this way. It may seem hard to believe in retrospect, but in the…
Four Indian states will soon decide just how strong Narendra Modi’s government will be.
The decision on who would build Australia’s next generation of submarines carried just as much anticipation in Japan as it did in Australia.
He’s a womaniser, a tyrant and a firebrand. Will the Philippines put its support behind a controversial strongman?
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