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The Marcos administration wants to make major changes to an education system that is still recovering from the closures of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Policymakers in Pakistan need to set the country’s house in order and work to convince its youth, its future leaders, that the country is worth staying in and building up.

The deaths of two Uyghur refugees in a detention center in Thailand shed light on the grave injustice that is the continued imprisonment of Uyghurs. 

The nationalist rush to claim ownership over cultural heritage is on full display during the SEA Games. In the past, it has even led to bloodshed.

In a landmark ruling, Nepal’s Supreme Court demanded that the government take action to recognize same-sex marriage.

Wang said China hopes the Taliban-appointed Afghan interim government will "take solid steps in the right direction.”

The incident raises questions about the competence of staff at Kualanamu International Airport in North Sumatra, which has pretensions of becoming a regional travel hub.

The country has a huge – and largely unaddressed – problem with the trafficking of women and girls.

It is difficult to disentangle the political choices made by Central Asian leaders to attend Moscow’s parade this year from the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Five people who braved bullets and landmines to make it to safety share their stories with The Diplomat.

The global scope of the cyber-scam operations based in the two Southeast Asian countries is only now starting to becoming clear.

South Korea’s handling of migrant workers is a blotch on the country's reputation.