Satellite imagery shows Vietnam rapidly expanding reclaimed land in contested sea but China’s response has been muted Vietnam has quietly ramped up its military presence in the South China Sea, matching China’s island-building tactics to assert its...
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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the East Asia Summit (EAS) — a gathering including Japan, the United States, China, Russia and the 10 member states of...
On the 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, President Xi Jinping awarded Bayika Kalidibek, a 72-year-old veteran border guard, the...
Several Chinese newspaper websites have removed comments about the coronavirus pandemic that were “wrongly presented” as coming from a Swiss biologist who does...
For many years, Tajikistan has been gravely affected by drug trafficking. At least 15-20 tons of opium and between 75 and 80 metric tons of...
While Alberto Fujimori was hailed for crushing a leftist insurgency and boosting the economy, he was convicted of gross human rights abuses. Peru has bid...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev last week called for increased defense cooperation among the Central Asian countries known collectively as the C5 —...
Robert Knox, the British sailor, published‘An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon’ in London in 1681. Perhaps Knox’s view was the best of an outsider in...
The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research...
Brussels/Dushanbe (10/8- 75) Once more Tajikistan comes on the radar screen. Who will be the next president of Tajikistan? How is the ban on the hijab helping...
