2022

The international community, in seeking to pursue cooperation in the region, ought to look to Muslim women as a vital set of partners.

Central Asia’s pharmaceutical industry is in dire need of reform. 

Historic summit not helped by ASEAN disunity and its peculiarities.

Entrenched interests and orthodoxies will inhibit the new Australian government’s ability to significantly enhance the country’s moral authority. 

Implementation of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 is being advanced incrementally and in a non-dynamic fashion.

Careful management of hydropower resources is essential to ensure its positive impacts on climate change and avoid transboundary river conflicts.

Pakistan will be wary of becoming a staging post for U.S. counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan as this would worsen its already testy ties with the Taliban regime.

Phankham Viphavanh, who took office in early 2021, may be on the way out -- hounded by scandal and a bad year for Laos’ economy.

De-Nazarbayevification moves further onward with plans to scrap the law “On the First President” 

Instead, it should retrain its soldiers and redeploy them in policing, peacekeeping, and disaster rescue and relief roles.

Many of Southeast Asia’s major currencies came under pressure this year but are ending the year strong.

As Afghan women are being erased from society in Taliban-run Afghanistan, all Afghans will suffer.