On Nov. 28, Vietnamese police arrested Nguyen Van Trinh, the chief-of-staff to the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam. He was the second chief of staff to a deputy prime minister who has been arrested in the past few months. 
The arrests w…

Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, “Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World” is available now from Oxford University Press. Radi…

Adam Makos, the author of “Devotion,” who visited North Korea in 2013 to negotiate the retrieval of a Korean War soldier’s remains, hopes to return to continue efforts to recover the remains of Jesse Brown, the U.S. Navy’s first black carrier pilot.
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COLOMBO– Sri Lanka’s Department of Meteorology, yesterday issued an advisory for severe lightning, in parts of the country for the coming 24 hours.   The

VIENTIANE– Lao Deputy Prime Minister, Sonexay Siphandone, yesterday, hailed the Laos-China railway as a pride of Laos.   When addressing a gathering, to review the