Story Archive
2024-09-25
The scandal exposes the country’s numerous governance issues, especially the lack of oversight on institutions and gaps in child protections.
2024-09-19
Conflicts, brutal violence and cycles of retribution reflect deeper, systemic issues in Papua New Guinea.
2024-09-16
Western well-wishers of the region’s nations must focus on supporting institutions that outlast personalities.
2024-09-12
These parties are using courts as tools but infighting threatens to tear apart the Palang Pracharath Party, analyst says.
2024-09-02
A drop of Taiwan, a measure of China, makes heady cocktail for next PIF leaders meeting.
2024-08-22
The appointment of the first civilian to lead Thailand in negotiations with BRN rebels is up for renewal as a new government comes into being.
2024-08-15
Regimes in Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos should note the uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.
2024-08-15
Analyst Zachary Abuza examines potential consequences of the Constitutional Court’s split ruling to strip the PM of power.
2024-08-12
New Caledonia, climate finance, U.S. territories and lack of banking services – key issues when leaders meet this month.
2024-08-09
The party’s superb showing in 2023 election demonstrated it emerged stronger from ashes of its similarly dissolved predecessor.
2024-08-04
The superpower of seafood dominates more than just the high seas.
2024-07-19
Japan’s presence in the Pacific region is expected to take on a markedly military tone, writes Tess Newton Cain.
2024-07-17
Ruling party thuggery on campuses, few employment opportunities and political disenfranchisement have engendered the crisis.
2024-07-10
Al-Qaeda’s Southeast Asian affiliate was behind a rash of huge bombings in Indonesia in the early 2000s.
2024-07-05
A new attempt to count Papua New Guinea’s population has been disrupted by unaccountability and disorganization, writes Michael Kabuni.