Asia

Malaysia needs a party that speaks about building a nation through policies that address the needs of all people, rather than feeding into toxic racialised politics, writes S Arutchelvan.

Partido Lakas ng Masa challenge Akbayan’s Perci Cendaña’s statement lauding national defence secretary Gibo Teodoro as a defender of Philippine sovereignty and respond to attacks by an Akbayan supporter.

The people of Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir remain in the streets after almost two weeks of blackout, siege and state violence, writes Umair Khurshid.

Pranaya Rana on the long road that turned a rapper into Nepal's prime minister.

The INDIA bloc needs a new impetus rooted in democratic resistance, unity, humility and renewed political purpose, argues Dipankar Bhattacharya.

Partido Lakas ng Masa contends there is little reason to expect a genuine anti-dynasty bill to emerge from House Bill No. 8389.

Yueran Zhang studies the domestic impacts of the post-1989 reforms, shedding light on the neglected story of class-political transformations that attended China’s global rise.

Pax Silica is a US-led drive to secure control over semiconductors, AI and critical minerals. The Philippines will lose out if it becomes a military-industrial node within this project, writes Reihana Mohideen.

The firing of a Tomahawk missile and operational deployment of the US Typhon system on Philippine soil mark a dangerous escalation in the country’s entanglement in imperialist military conflicts, warns Partido Lakas ng Masa.

Singaporean abolitionist activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi faces up to 12 months in prison and a S$20,000 fine for speaking out about the cruelties of the death penalty regime.

For 9 million people in West Bengal, the electoral voting machines will not open writes Sandip Nayak. Their silence will be counted as absence. And that manufactured, deliberate and meticulously engineered absence will be called democracy.

Farooq Sulehria — Pakistan may seek to play the role of peacemaker globally but regionally it acts as a warmonger.