NEED TO KNOW Null and Void CAMBODIA Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s chances of winning reelection on July 23 are very good. […]

NEED TO KNOW Come Visit HONG KONG Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, is giving out 700,000 plane tickets to […]

NEED TO KNOW A Voice, a Divide AUSTRALIA After a recent historic parliamentary vote, Australians will vote on a constitutional amendment to […]

NEED TO KNOW Backroom Chats CHINA American diplomats claimed that the autocratic president of China, Xi Jinping, had no clue that one […]

NEED TO KNOW Pride and Pressure KYRGYZSTAN D Billions is a quartet of Kyrgyz singers whose performances for kids on YouTube have […]

NEED TO KNOW Mission Wealth LAOS Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom is a prominent activist and critic of the authoritarian, communist government of Laos. […]

NEED TO KNOW Villains CAMBODIA In a final decision, Cambodia’s Constitutional Council recently rejected the claims of opposition politicians with the Candlelight […]

NEED TO KNOW Terrorist Vs. Terrorist AFGHANISTAN Since the US exited Afghanistan nearly two years ago, the leader of the Islamic Emirate […]

NEED TO KNOW Full Court Press CHINA American and Chinese officials held more than eight hours of “candid” and “constructive” talks in […]

NEED TO KNOW East of Eden EAST TIMOR Timor-Leste, or East Timor, depends on an oil-funded sovereign wealth fund to finance 80 […]

NEED TO KNOW Family Business THAILAND Thai political candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 36, who is the frontrunner in upcoming national elections, recently gave […]

NEED TO KNOW Demography and Destiny INDIA The world’s largest democracy, India, is now the world’s most populous country. The distinction is […]

NEED TO KNOW More for Everyone UZBEKISTAN President Shavkat Mirziyoyev feels like staying around for a while. That’s why voters in Uzbekistan […]

NEED TO KNOW Shiny, Happy People BHUTAN In Bhutan, the law states that “if the government cannot create happiness for its people, […]

NEED TO KNOW Peace and Sabers TAIWAN After the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, met with Taiwanese President […]

NEED TO KNOW Rubber Duck Politics THAILAND Thai authorities sentenced a man to jail for two years for peddling calendars featuring rubber […]

NEED TO KNOW The Democracy Two-Step KAZAKHSTAN Campaign signs festooned the streets of Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, in anticipation of […]

NEED TO KNOW Blazing Furnace VIETNAM Vietnamese lawmakers elected Vo Van Thuong as the Southeast Asian country’s new president in early March, […]

NEED TO KNOW He Said, She Said ARMENIA/ AZERBAIJAN Talks between Azerbaijani officials and the ethnic Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave […]

NEED TO KNOW Man and Country INDIA Indian billionaire Gautam Adani used to claim that the success of his energy and port facilities […]

NEED TO KNOW Militants-in-Waiting PAKISTAN In Pakistan late last month, a terrorist disguised as a police officer detonated a bomb in a […]

NEED TO KNOW Dirty Laundry THE PACIFIC Since Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melted down in 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami […]

NEED TO KNOW Playing Charades MYANMAR Two years ago, Myanmar’s generals staged a coup that ousted the Southeast Asian country’s civilian leaders, […]

NEED TO KNOW Twixt the Bear and the Dragon MONGOLIA In Mongolia, Dulamsuren Demberel worries about her family’s budget. The price of […]