As Nepal faces deep governance failure, Sujeev Shakya explains how political cartels hollowed out the state, why monarchy is ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised the Hong Kong government for what he called its firm safeguarding of national ...

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For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

The president assembles a fleet of warships off the shores of an oil rich country run by a brutal dictator. He orders ...

Japan expressed grave concern on Tuesday over the conviction of Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily in Hong Kong, for violating the national security law. "We are deeply concerned about ...

Japan’s new prime minister wants more spending to boost growth and the central bank to pause tightening. But government bond ...

A Hong Kong opinion leader who was a leading critic of China has been found guilty in court. The current situation in which China is taking away freedoms and suppressing free speech in Hong Kong is ...

A new Czech coalition government led by populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has taken office. Babiš' agenda includes steering ...

A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even ...

The founder of the pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, has been found guilty by a Hong Kong court under the national ...