The blue bins are for recycling; everyone knows that. Everything in those bins gets melted down and reused for manufacturing paper or...

Vibrant, cosmopolitan, and an international financial hub, Hong Kong is known for its high level of development and integration into the...

Japan is opening its doors. After a long tradition of stringent immigration policies that severely limited the number of foreigners...

From the 86,000 seats in Lusail Stadium (one of nine stadiums under construction) to the newly constructed gleaming residential...

When the eyes of the world fall upon Myanmar, they see the Rohingya crisis occurring in the western part of the Southeast Asian country,...

Following the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS, countering violent extremism has become an important issue in the Middle East. Throughout...

During the Cultural Revolution, Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping’s father, was purged by student militants following Mao’s call to “bombard the...

Film censorship has always played a crucial role in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) political ascendance and maintenance of power....

In the summer of 2017, China and India engaged in a 73-day border standoff on the Doklam Plateau, a 34 square mile piece of land disputed...

Diapers may be Japan’s most pressing issue of 2019. The Japanese diaper industry is booming, so what is the problem? Japan sells more...

Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, might be able to change the Philippines for the better– but not with his war on drugs, or...

Reports of civil unrest in Venezuela reveal a strange scene. From militarized police vehicles, giant cannons shoot water straight into...

Under the guise of an anti-terrorism campaign, the Chinese government has established Muslim detention and re-education camps in the...

This summer, tourists flocking to the coastal Croatian city of Dubrovnik were greeted by a group very much out of place amidst the...

In the beautiful green-blue waters surrounding an island in the archipelago nation of Kiribati, Anote Tong calmly treads water as he...

In 1923, Joseph Stalin decided to shift the majority-Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh into Soviet Azerbaijan as an independent oblast....

Universal health care can transform a country. In Japan, the kokumin kaihoken insurance system has led to the world’s highest life...

After the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula in 1910, many Koreans migrated to Japan—some voluntarily, others by force. During...

Though now one of the most arid regions in the world, the Middle East was once home to a lush environment. Sadly, the scattering of...

In recent months, the Cambodian government has released several political prisoners under mounting pressure from the international...