NEED TO KNOW  Kazakhstan Rethinks Its Past As It Becomes Part of the ‘New Silk Road’  KAZAKHSTAN  Kazakhstan is changing its relationships […]

NEED TO KNOW  China Advances in ‘Silent War’ Against US Dollar CHINA In July, the central banks of China and Egypt signed […]

NEED TO KNOW  Coup Politics: In Thailand, There is Just No Pleasing the Military  THAILAND  On July 1, Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended […]

NEED TO KNOW  Build it and They Will Come, Hopes North Korea, As It Opens New Beach Resort  NORTH KOREA  In Spain, […]

NEED TO KNOW  Letting Go to Grow: Armenian Leaders Make Peace Abroad, War at Home  ARMENIA  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sacrificed […]

NEED TO KNOW  A ‘Simple Buddhist Monk’ Defies China: The Dalai Lama Says His Successor Will Be Born in a ‘Free Country’  […]

NEED TO KNOW  Scam, Inc.: China Cracks Down on Booming Industry In Southeast Asia  CHINA/ CAMBODIA / MYANMAR / THAILAND Lisa, an […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Protest Addiction: After the Revolution, Bangladeshis Stumble Forward  BANGLADESH  Last summer, tens of thousands of students and other […]

NEED TO KNOW  By the Numbers: India To Include Caste in Census Setting Off Identity Politics Fight  INDIA  In April, the release […]

NEED TO KNOW  Nepal Overthrew Its King Years Ago. Now, Some Want Him Back.  NEPAL  When Nepal’s deposed monarch, King Gyanendra, flew […]

NEED TO KNOW The Purse and the Fury: A Dior Bag Brings Down Mongolia’s Government MONGOLIA When the Mongolian prime minister’s son […]

NEED TO KNOW  Fixing the Cracks: South Koreans Go to the Polls Hoping to Move On  SOUTH KOREA  On Tuesday, South Koreans […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Grain of Truth: In Japan, Political Fortunes Go With Rice   JAPAN  In Japan, rice is no joking matter.   […]

NEED TO KNOW  Rocks and Hard Places: Caught Between Pakistan and India, Kashmiris Hope for Peace  KASHMIR  On April 22, gunfire broke […]

NEED TO KNOW  Rough Seas: A Family Feud Divides Philippines as Voters Head to the Polls  PHILIPPINES  In March, when Filipino police […]

NEED TO KNOW  What’s Old Is New: Malaysia Moves Forward and Brings Old Habits With It  MALAYSIA  Nearly 100 years old, Mahathir […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Trump Effect: Anger at the US Fuels Leftist Advantage in Australian Elections  AUSTRALIA A global trade war, threats […]

NEED TO KNOW  In Singapore, an Election Brings Choices, Change and – Tingles  SINGAPORE  For years, elections in Singapore produced little excitement, […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Long Arm of the Law: In the Philippines, the Rules Remain an Afterthought  PHILIPPINES  When former Philippine President […]

NEED TO KNOW  Going a Courting: China Woos Neighbors to Beat US Trade War  CHINA Chinese leader Xi Jinping took his first overseas […]

NEED TO KNOW A Shot in the Dark: Indonesia’s President Want’s ‘Polite Democracy.’ Good Luck With That. INDONESIA When Indonesian President Prabowo […]

NEED TO KNOW The Omen: An Earthquake, Say Locals, Foretells the End of Myanmar’s Junta MYANMAR For the past four years, the […]

NEED TO KNOW Playing Coy: Armenia Wants Peace – Azerbaijan Doesn’t Mind Waiting ARMENIA/ AZERBAIJAN In mid-March, Armenia and Azerbaijan did what many thought was […]

NEED TO KNOW The Power of the Purse: China Pleads For Spending CHINA Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China […]