As Yugoslavia disintegrated in a storm of nationalism and genocide, Western leaders watched with a mix of glee, condescension, and horror. Glee at the fall of a socialist federation, condescension toward the “barbaric” Slavs, and horror at the scale of violence on European soil.
Thousands of rotational soldiers move in and out of Papua. They fight, guard state projects, and leave civilians under a seemingly endless shadow of guns. Papua now hosts 74,297 soldiers. Of those, 17,780 are rotational troops drawn from across Indonesia.
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话: 悟空; hereinafter BMW), an action role-playing game developed by the Chinese studio Game Science (游戏科学), became both a commercial and a cultural phenomenon after its release on 20 August 2024.
Even as the region increasingly depends on interconnected grids to move renewable energy, the three neighbours are in a stalemate over a mere 20 MW
“You are a regime that makes enemies out of our neighbours, out of our friends, out of our fellow citizens, and nothing but a complete defeat of your political ideology and your regime will be enough for this country, for democracy, for the rights of every citizen, for justice. ”
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s first major policy blueprint, Japan’s Growth Strategy , arrived on 24 June 2026.
The Taiwanese government has proposed funding a science and technology park in Eswatini at a cost of 1 billion NT, the Taiwan Industrial Innovation Park. The science park would be to shore up relations in what is Taiwan’s sole remaining diplomatic ally in Africa, with the aim of expanding the footprint for Taiwanese businesses in Africa.
Jointly nominated by Malaysia and Singapore for inscription on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2025, Chingay is a yearly parade that takes place in Johor Bahru, Penang, and Singapore.
In recent years, political depression has emerged not only as a psychological condition but also as a culturally embedded affective response shaped by broader socio-political forces. Clinically, it resembles depression, but its aetiology is tied explicitly to political events and structural disenfranchisement.
“Some we love, some we hate, some we eat,” was the title of a best-selling exploration of the relationship between humans and animals, with the subtitle “Why it’s so hard to think straight about animals. ” The spectrum actually goes much wider than love, hatred and food.
The opening of the games coincided with Kyrgyzstan's 35th independence anniversary and a major Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
Yesterday’s edition of the Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily made a bold visual claim to leadership on artificial intelligence at home and abroad.
In Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age (MIT Press, 2026), Ling Tang invites readers to explore the aspirations, achievements, and everyday struggles of women at the forefront of China’s digital economy.
Propaganda and prejudice have long stripped the Rohingya and other minorities of their humanity, making them easy targets of violence
The two neighbors are reshaping the nuclear politics of Northeast Asia – and doing so increasingly in concert with Washington.
As captive coal plants support Indonesia’s growing nickel industry, communities in North Maluku and Central Sulawesi shoulder the burden
The revolution has become a war of attrition against history itself
Issues regarding local corruption are again in the news, with a number of pan-Blue Taitung city councilors questioned about the use of public funds to build a resort
A few years ago, I overheard an antiquarian bookseller tell one of his customers that while he didn’t mind reading, he was really more interested in the “book as object”. I was reminded of this while reading Angela O’Keeffe’s third novel, Phantom Days , in which one of the two principal narrators is a book.
Consumption Norms, Hysteresis, and the Struggle to Revive Whale Consumption in Japan’s Largest Whaling Port
