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From Guns to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Electoral Gamble Faces Steep Resistance
Myanmar’s military leadership is attempting a strategic pivot from battlefield dominance to electoral control, but the odds of success remain slim amid ongoing civil...
Junta Turns to Ballots After Battlefield Setbacks
Nearly five years after seizing power in a coup, Myanmar’s military leadership is attempting to use elections to consolidate authority it has failed to...
Vietnam Stocks Rally on Leadership Continuity Signals
Vietnam’s benchmark stock index opened at its highest level on Wednesday after a senior Communist Party plenum agreed on candidates for the next five-year...
CAR’s Touadera Seeks Third Term Amid Russian Ties and Crypto Push
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera, 68, is seeking a controversial third term on Sunday after more than a decade in power. In 2023,...
Malaysia Denies Najib Razak’s Bid for House Arrest Ahead of 1MDB Verdict
A Malaysian court on Monday rejected a request by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his prison sentence at...
Inside Vietnam’s Leadership Transition
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party will convene its 14th five-yearly congress from January 19–25, a tightly choreographed political event that will determine the country’s top...
Taiwan’s political deadlock and the prospect of new elections
Taiwan’s government is locked in a constitutional and political standoff after the opposition-controlled parliament passed amendments to a local government spending law that the...
Bangladesh on edge after student leader’s killing sparks unrest
Bangladesh deployed police and paramilitary forces across Dhaka and other cities after violent overnight protests erupted over the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a...
Takeaways from Trump’s Year-End White House Address
U.S. President Donald Trump used his pre-holiday address on Wednesday to frame his first year in office as a success while attributing many ongoing...
White House Rifts Laid Bare as Trump Aide Wiles Details Internal Clashes
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles offered an unusually candid look inside President Donald Trump’s second-term administration in comments published by Vanity Fair,...