September 2011

Joint military counterinsurgency exercises this month are a sign of warming ties between India and Mongolia.

China sees US missile defence plans as a threat, while the US worries about Chinese ballistic missiles. Who’s right to be worried?

China is tightening the supply of rare earth metals. Is it about the environment or strategic advantage?

Was Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s decision to repeal a security act risky or inspired?

A court ruling that the Netherlands should pay damages over a massacre in Indonesia in 1947 is welcome.

The Rapid Action Battalion has enjoyed strong public support for routinely killing alleged criminals. But is it always acting within the law?

Does a meeting of prominent intellectuals offer a route to a more democratic and effective Lokpal Bill?

NATO has offered to share ballistic missile defence technology with India. What’s behind the offer?

Mongolians have long dismissed their country as a pony between two elephants. But a wealth of natural resources could change that.

A new law tightening up on NGOs in Cambodia likely has political motivations. Still, they need to work with the govt.

As a 20-hour siege ends in Kabul, worries are growing over whether Afghan forces can keep the country secure.

A Chinese rights lawyer speaks out after being detained in secret earlier this year by Chinese authorities.