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Police are enforcing an unwritten moral code that applies only to women. Public shaming is an ever-reliable weapon in Tajikistan’s toolkit for silencing expressions of discontent. This treatment is not…

Thai activists are pressuring the opposition Pheu Thai Party to do away with the royal defamation law if elected to office this year. The requests come at a time when three demonstrators are seriously ill after…

Political activists met Thailand’s biggest opposition party on Tuesday (Jan 31) to demand that, if it wins in upcoming elections, it revoke a tough law that criminalises insults of the…

The latest statement by hardline politician Piyabutr Saengkanokkul provides the clearest evidence that one of Thailand’s newest political parties, which thrives on unorthodoxy and drastic reforms that border on extremism, has reached a soul-searching point probably in record…

The return of important members from the Sang Anakhot Thai Party (SATP) to the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), according to Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the late prime minister Thaksin, is…

The opposition Pheu Thai Party alerted police on Thursday (Feb 2) after a small handmade bomb was thrown at a campaign billboard erected outside its office in Bangkok’s Don Mueang…

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) shows economic recovery despite the global crisis, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during an Oct. 28 meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council, reported…

The date of the next national election hasn’t even been set, but campaign posters have started going up in Pattaya. The constitution requires the next polls by May, but they…

The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines – a key bit of real estate which would offer a front seat to monitor the Chinese…

New York, Brussels, Astana (18/1 – 60). After facing the most challenging year in 2022, Kazakhstan continues its political modernization. Under the second term of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev who has been…