The hundreds of millions of people in Asia who follow the 12-year-cycle of the Lunar calendar will say farewell to the Year of the Tiger and welcome the Year of the Rabbit, which runs from Jan. 22, 2023 to Feb. 9, 2024. According to the Chinese zodiac,…

Much is expected from next year’s ASEAN chair Indonesia, especially in resolving the post-coup crisis in Myanmar, but analysts say that little will change unless Jakarta spearheads a hardline stance against the Burmese junta.
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The people of Myanmar suffered as the anti-junta armed resistance took on the military in 2022. It was a year in which not only democracy and human rights eroded in the aftermath of the February 2021 coup, but also one that saw an acute loss of civilia…

China on Friday issued a ruling giving top officials in the Hong Kong government the power to bar foreign lawyers from representing clients in “national security” cases, paving the way for officials to block the appointment of media mogul Jimmy Lai’s B…

Department stores in Pyongyang are stocking up on counterfeit luxury goods imported from China to sell at high prices to North Korea’s wealthy elite in the run-up to holidays at the start of the new year, sources inside the country with knowledge of th…

The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi swore in the first cohort of Peace Corps volunteers to arrive in Vietnam since the Vietnam War, the embassy announced. 

The first nine volunteers, who came to Vietnam in October, have been trained to deliver English lang…