August 2021

The Taliban now control more than two-thirds of the countryside, and a third of provincial capitals.

Taipei has been quietly working on a conventional deterrent that lacks much of the nuclear option’s controversy.

Semiconductors are particularly thirsty.

Mangoes have always been in the frontline of Pakistan’s politics and diplomacy.

According to the International Labor Organization, pandemic-induced job losses will continue to drag down the region's economies until well into 2022.

There is a strong case to be made that the Vietnamese government leveraged ingrained anti-Chinese sentiment to boost vaccine uptake.

Than Shwe's illness is paralleled by the collapse of the crafted system of semi-democracy that he engineered.

The new U.N. climate report confirms that significantly higher global temperatures are now a near-term certainty. National security planning needs to take a warmer, less stable world into account.

After Taiwan announced plans to open a new representative office in Lithuania, China responded by ordering Lithuania to withdraw its ambassador to Beijing.

The country is looking to ramp up vaccine production – for COVID-19 and beyond.

Can Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte be indicted for "crimes against humanity”? And if so, can he be brought to justice?

The expected arc of a woman’s life in Pakistan is living in her parents’ home and then that of her husband. But more women are striking out alone, seeking independence.