In Britain and throughout the West, we are witnessing the eclipse of the political mainstream.   Politicians like Donald Trump in the US, Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland or Marine Le Pen in France were once…

It’s the morning after that many of us dread – a bad hangover that doesn’t want to go away, regardless of the painkillers downed with cups of black coffee.

After Aung San Suu Kyi landed in Bangkok yesterday for a three-day visit, her first destination was not Government House, but the town of Mahachai, a district best known for seafood, 16 kilometers south of Bangkok.

The last time Thailand sat in the United Nations Security Council was three decades ago, from 1986-87.

There’s a silver lining to the dark clouds of populist Euroskepticism crowding in on the European Union.

Chea Mony, the president of the Free Trade Union (FTU), has promised to mobilize the workers who are members of his union to launch mass strikes and protests if acting opposition leader Kem Sokha is arrested.

There is one big loser in Cambodia at present as the government cracks down on the opposition and the opposition fights back with petitions and boycotts of official meetings – the people.

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang wrapped up his first trip to Cambodia, after Laos, yesterday. His trip marked a milestone in deepening and widening bilateral relations between the two countries.  

Can the United Kingdom ever reconcile itself to being part of Europe? If recent British newspaper headlines about the June 23 referendum on continued European Union membership are any guide, the answer appears to be a decisive “no.”

There was a palpable sense of discomfort at the latest G7 summit meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan. By the time the leaders of the world’s major developed economies meet again, there is no telling which of them will be populist insurgents.

Dengue cases normally peak in the Kingdom during the onslaught of the monsoon. This year, however, things seem to be different and we are seeing a large number of cases of dengue fever reported even before the start of the wet season.

Donald Trump ridiculed it, saying it was the only thing Hillary Clinton had going for her candidacy. On Tuesday as she made history, she opted to play it proudly.

Successful economic development has hewed to a well-known pattern. Lifting a country out of poverty and placing it on a path of sustainable growth requires hard work, the creation of a robust system of property…

When Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games, the Zika virus had yet to reach Brazil.   Now, after billions of dollars have been invested in preparing for the Games, Rio de Janeiro…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being portrayed as a boon for all 12 of the countries involved.

a huge common market of $2.6 trillion and more than 622 million people, is not without its disparities.

Bad news is all around us. The world confronts the possibility of a sexist, racist ignoramus occupying the White House next January. Unreconstructed authoritarians already are in charge in Russia and China.

Media coverage of modern slavery is often misinformed, unethical in its treatment of survivors and obsessed with the sex trade, according to a global survey of leading anti-trafficking experts, with 70 percent of respondents saying…

United States politicians invariably bemoan trade as the enemy of the middle class, the major source of pressure on jobs and wages. 

Seven hundred killed in a plane crash. Seven hundred killed in a terrorist attack. Hundreds killed in a building collapse.