The junta’s polls, which will be held in three phases starting on December 28, are intended to strengthen military rule by ...

Here’s one last look at Asia’s worst to best in 2025. Worst year: Cyber scam victims The victims are both the scammers and ...

As we bid farewell to 2025, and welcome 2026 -- and soon, the lunar Year of the Horse -- we once again highlight the winners ...

Unlike its Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union, Washington’s rivalry with Beijing is constrained by mutual dependence and ...

Ann Lee was the founder of the 18th-century religious sect known as the Shakers. The Testament of Ann Lee depicts her true ...

A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror villain Slender Man and then fled a group home ...

The death count across large swaths of Asia seemed to accelerate by year’s end. Throughout all of 2025, too many people fell ...

White nationalist Nicholas Fuentes has repeatedly targeted India and its diaspora with racist and xenophobic remarks. He ...

The political party backed by Myanmar’s ruling military claims it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first ...

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten ...

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Myanmar held relatively free and fair elections in 2020, dominated by Aung ...