March 11, 2016 marked the beginning of the three-day World Culture Festival (WCF) held in India’s capital, New Delhi, to celebrate “The...

In mid-February, residents of Delhi were met with an unpleasant surprise: seemingly out of nowhere, an unprecedented water crisis forced...

In February, President Barack Obama hosted a summit for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at Rancho Mirage, California,...

China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an...

Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already...

“Gross National Happiness (GNH) is more important than Gross National Product.” This famous quotation by Bhutan’s Fourth King Jigme...

Manga, Japan’s infamous cartoon characters, are now being employed as something new: military weapons. The display of charming, young...

Earlier this month, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and leader of the student...

Big changes are underway in Taiwan. Earlier this year, the country’s political landscape was significantly reshaped, as Tsai Ing-wen, the...

India has been rocked by the recent arrest of two students on colonial-era sedition charges for their involvement in protests against the...

Erratic! Dangerous! Brainwashed! Theocratic! Whichever epithet is ascribed to North Korea and its people, the common image cast of the...

While warping time can make for good science fiction, the simple act of turning the hands of a clock has borne great significance for...

Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...

Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...

On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable...

With the eyes of the world trained on the Syrian conflict and its fallout, another refugee crisis has gone relatively unnoticed....

At 11:55 in the morning of April 25, 2015, the streets of Kathmandu were as bustling as ever. Residents and tourists alike gathered under...

The weapons arrived in crates marked “Norinco.” The rifles, grenades, and missile launchers were bought on credit — oil fields were the...

In what is considered one of the world’s longest civil wars, Myanmar may finally be able to turn a page on the ethnic conflict which has...

In the last decade, China has become a juggernaut in international politics. It is undoubtedly the dominant force in Asia and faces scant...