Society

The Tajik president commented that “Tajikistan today is without COVID-19" -- close regional observers (and common sense) disagree.

How does China use nationalism in international brand controversies? And where are its limits?

Amid energy shortages in Iran, Iranians are pointing the finger at Chinese-run bitcoin mining operations.

Taiwan’s political culture is the unexpected key to public compliance with COVID-19 digital surveillance.

Taiwan is working to contain a domestic outbreak and maintain its remarkable success in containing the coronavirus.

A government-sanctioned look back at the early fight against COVID-19 differs sharply from a documentary directed by artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

In Hong Kong, the pandemic has fanned the flames of a more silent epidemic: systematic racism. 

A trial is ongoing, but behind closed doors, while citizens complain of unfair distribution of promised compensation.

The Nirvana Route: How early encounters between India, China and Southeast Asia shaped Asian civilization.

As the pandemic exacerbates poverty rates among single mothers, the shortcomings of womenomics reforms are on full display.

The editor of a ditched anthology of essays on Thai politics has called for an academic boycott on the National University of Singapore Press.