Rintaro Nishimura is a Tokyo-based associate in the Japan practice of The Asia Group, a Washington-based strategic advisory firm.

Pacific Island economies. Over the years, she has worked on assignments with Asian Development Bank, Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative, UN Capital Development Fund and Criterion Institute ...

Others demand respect in quite different forms. New Zealanders want others to like and admire their country, although not ...

Reallocation of the $600 million NRL bid financing could fund another 150 similar projects across the country, with change to ...

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Hangga Fathana is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Universitas Islam Indonesia, with more than 15 years of experience teaching Australian politics and foreign policy. In addition ...

Reports are circulating that North Korea is sending troops to Russian-occupied Donbas, and some might have even been killed and wounded. Moreover, sending troops would earn cash for the North Korean ...

The Asian Development Bank has certainly not chosen a TikTok-grabbing theme for its latest bout of navel gazing by committing to “Solving challenges together, connecting the region, and empowering ...

There are a select few countries on this earth that stand out as regional leaders for peace. The most famous would have to be Switzerland, renowned and admired for its constitutional Law of Neutrality ...

In recent years, expectations for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to “get its act together” and actively respond to regional challenges have been met with disappointment. Lukewarm responses ...

At first glance, Cambodia and Australia might not seem like major players in each other’s diplomatic orbits. But watch this space. Over the past decades, Canberra has been a key partner in Cambodia’s ...