On Tuesday, as India celebrated the festival of lights, Diwali, another light was rekindled after almost 25 years. Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who studied in India in the 1960s, returned ...

Myanmar’s strategic position as a bridge between two rising Asian powers, China and India, places it at the center of a critical geopolitical nexus. The historian Thant Myint-U underscored the country ...

On December 29, elections will begin in Myanmar – the Burmese call them sham elections —which will be held until January 11, 2026, with a subsequent phase. Meanwhile, the junta’s army has been heavily ...

The decline of democracy in some of Southeast Asia’s most important states does not only affect the citizens of those countries. The decline has a kind of knock-on effect, in which it also undermines ...