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Credit: Depositphotos Pakistan’s economy appears to be heading toward another challenging phase. The current account deficit has once again resurfaced amid persistent weaknesses in the external sector, particularly the balance of payments. This vulnerability, which seems to be entrenched in the country’s structural imbalances, such as heavy reliance on imports, falling exports and exposure to […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink Bureau of Fire Protection rescuers clear rubble as they search for survivors and victims in the debris of a collapsed building in Angeles, Philippines, on May 24, 2026 [Ted Aljibe/AFP] At least four people have been killed and 17 are missing after a building under […]

Credit: Depositphotos In January, the Tokyo District Court found that a tort had been committed and ordered the North Korean government to pay compensation over the repatriation project that sent ethnic Koreans in Japan to North Korea from the 1960s to the ‘80s.  The case was brought by four plaintiffs who moved to North Korea […]

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / PP Yoonus On April 10, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) released a list of names for 23 mountain passes, peaks, rivers, and settlements in Chinese characters, Tibetan script, and pinyin, with precise GPS coordinates. The problem was that all these locations are in Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state. A sharp […]

Credit: Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett The ghost of China haunts every conversation about India. When U.S. Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau visited New Delhi earlier this year, he stated it directly: “We are not going to make the same mistakes with India that we made with China 20 years ago…” Now, as Secretary […]

Traditional wooden fishing boats in the sea in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Credit: Shutterstock For years, Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been treated primarily as an environmental and economic threat. Governments framed it as a problem of depleted fish stocks, lost state revenue, and maritime resource theft. Yet a far more dangerous transformation is […]

The square in front of Taipei Station is a popular gathering place for migrant workers on their days off. Credit: Shutterstock Taiwan is often discussed in the contemporary international community through its democratic resilience in the face of Beijing’s authoritarian pressure. In Europe, where many countries have transitioned from authoritarian rule to democracy, Taiwan’s experience […]

A roadside market in North Korea. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Uwe Brodrecht China’s early economic reforms, led by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s, are frequently cited as the main basis for comparison when it comes to North Korea’s economic improvement measures implemented by Kim Jong Il and later continued by Kim Jong Un. However, despite […]

U.S President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China, May 15, 2026. Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok This is the concluding installment of a four-part series on “The First Airtight Empire.” Part I documented the two slogan substitutions through which Beijing rewrote its history and prewrote its […]

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea Seoul is reportedly preparing to announce a roadmap for its nuclear-powered submarine program, turning what was once a long-running strategic aspiration into a more immediate policy question. Naval nuclear propulsion raises non-proliferation questions about fuel, safeguards, and nuclear latency. But treating Seoul’s […]