At the pump, consumers across the world are reliving the kind of price shocks that defined the oil crises of the 1970s. Petrol prices that hovered around 180 cents per litre in early 2026 have surged ...

In 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s long-running war on corruption began to heat up again. By early 2026, perhaps as many as 100 senior military officers — including five of the six members of the ...

In February 2026, the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, but he is now reconstructing his tariff wall using other statutes. Global market interventions ...

The 2026 Jakarta Treaty shifts Australia–Indonesia defence ties from functional cooperation to deeper strategic alignment, institutionalising high-level consultation while preserving both countries’ ...

British companies and investors are profiting from gold mining, gas extraction and palm oil plantations in West Papua, while the British government supports the Indonesian military through arms ...

Japan’s prostitution regime combines formal prohibition with regulatory tolerance, producing a system that criminalises solicitation while leaving buyers largely untouched. The arrests of women ...

Kim Ju-ae, daughter of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, is reportedly being groomed as his designated successor. But the real question is not whether Kim Jong-un wants to pass power to his ...

Kurnya Roesad is currently a Lead Officer with the Indonesia Program of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). His main area of work is on the application of green growth concepts and extended cost ...

Ye Zhang is Research Analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Dr Ming Gao is a Researcher in the Department of History at Lund University and is affiliated with the Lund University Profile Area Human Rights. His work explores gender, feminism, and the legacies ...

Junqing Zhang is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests focus on illicit economic flows, particularly online gambling in China ...

Kurniawan Arif Maspul is a researcher and interdisciplinary writer focusing on Islamic diplomacy and Southeast Asian political thought. He holds an M.Ed in Advanced Teaching, an MBA, and an MA in ...