The Bad Blood Between Sheikh Hasina and the US
Several Indian media outlets, including the Economic Times, The Print, and NDTV, have printed what is purportedly a speech that Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina planned to make – but...
View ArticleWhat China’s Strategists Think About China-US Relations
Over the past decade, tensions in the China-U.S. relationship have mounted to the point that many now speak of a “new cold war” between Beijing and Washington. U.S. policymakers have leaned into this...
View ArticleMyanmar Rebel Leader Sai Leun Dies in China, Aged 76
Sai Leun, the founder of an ethnic armed group based in Mong La in eastern Shan State, died of lung cancer in China last week, local media reported. He was 76. The Shan Herald Agency for News confirmed...
View ArticleThe Devastating Gendered Impacts of Myanmar’s Coup
More than three-and-a-half years after the Myanmar military’s 2021 attempted coup, it is clear that alarm bells warning of the coup’s negative gendered impacts did not sound loudly enough. A brutal and...
View ArticleNew Vietnam Communist Party Chief to Visit China Next Week, Report Says
Vietnam’s top leader To Lam will visit China next week, his first overseas trip since his recent appointment as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). According to a report by...
View ArticleWhy the Next US President Should Shift Myanmar Policy
As the U.S general election approaches, the one certainty is that a new president will occupy the Oval Office in January 2025, regardless of which party’s candidate wins. Over the past three and a...
View ArticleIndian Government’s Intensifying Attack on Scientific Temperament Worries...
Scientists, students, researchers, and science lovers are participating in a series of rallies in several Indian cities between August 10 and 17 as part of the 2024 India March for Science events. The...
View ArticleReexamining Gender-Based Violence in the Aceh Conflict
People I have spoken to in Aceh often said that the tsunami of December 2004 brought peace to their community. Despite the significant losses suffered in the disaster, it led to the restoration of...
View ArticleUN Increases Food Provisions to Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
The United Nations World Food Programme has again increased its food aid to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, the group confirmed this week, offsetting two cuts that were made last year in...
View ArticleWould You Pay Someone To Write Your University Thesis?
Would you pay someone to write your university thesis? For some, the answer will be an immediate “no” for a range of reasons, either moral, legal or practical. For others, it may be that such a...
View ArticleTaliban Redux: Afghanistan 3 Years After the Fall of Kabul
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban seized Kabul, bringing an end to the U.S.-backed Afghanistan National Government. Join Beyond the Indus host Tushar Shetty as we evaluate Afghanistan three years into...
View ArticleAfghanistan: A Nation Deprived, a Future Denied
Mahatma Gandhi famously said, “The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.” Gandhi emphasized the importance of women’s status as a reflection of a nation’s progress. He...
View ArticleWith PM’s Dismissal, Thailand’s ‘Network Monarchy’ Strikes Back
With another controversial ruling, Thailand’s Constitutional Court has once again returned the country to a new era of political stasis and uncertainty. Yesterday, the court voted 5-4 to dismiss Prime...
View ArticleMyanmar’s Rebel Militias Redeploy Towards Mandalay
Myanmar’s anti-regime forces are being re-deployed to the south, north, and east of Mandalay amid rising expectations of a coming battle with the military aimed at wresting control of the old capital...
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3 Afghans Face Different Fates After the Taliban Takeover
The Poet In a discreet corner of Kabul, an Afghan writer hides from the Taliban in plain sight. His hair, which falls past his shoulders, and his once-dark skin, which has taken on a pale hue, confirm...
View ArticleKishida’s Resignation Is a Diplomatic Loss for Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced this week that he will not seek re-election as the ruling party leader in September, paving the way for a new Japanese premier. Kishida was the second...
View ArticleVietnamese Court Sentences Prominent Political Activist to Five Years Prison
A Vietnamese court yesterday convicted the political activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen of “propaganda against the state” and sentenced him to five years in prison. Tuyen – known to his friends and social media...
View ArticleHun Manet: In His Father’s Long Shadow
Children who follow in the footsteps of prominent parents often don’t have it easy. Usually, they are measured and judged by the success of their parents, be it in sport or the arts. This is not always...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Bold Bid to Become a Semiconductor Hub
Semiconductors, commonly known as “chips,” are the tiny technological marvels that enable electronic devices to process and store data. Once considered highly specialized technological products, chips...
View ArticlePaetongtarn Shinawatra Selected as Thailand’s Next Prime Minister
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has been selected as the country’s next prime minister, two days after the court-ordered dismissal of her...
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