In this episode we discuss the remarkable rise of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar, or Burma. Following inauguration on April 1, 2016, the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi must now address…
Rajasthan passes bill to guarantee clear title for land and eases land acquisition rules for industrial development; Maharashtra allows sale of public land; Oracle invests $400 million in Bangalore; Andhra signs an agreement with China’s Sichuan province for closer economic…
By Victor Cha — CSIS data on North Korea suggests the likelihood of a North Korean provocation after ROK legislative elections on April 13 and before the Korean Workers’ Party Congress in the first week of May. Historically, North…
Gujarat passes a new land acquisition law; Andhra and Karnataka hike electricity rates/ Gujarat lowers electricity rates; Bihar bans booze, Haryana liberalizes laws governing downsizing; Mehbooba Mufti sworn in as first female chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir; West Bengal…
By Kazuya Sakamoto — Since coming back to office in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been making serious efforts to strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance. His efforts include setting up a Japanese National Security Council to discuss security matters…
By Aung Din — It was March 30, a beautiful but extremely hot summer day in Myanmar. The sky above Naypyitaw, the secluded capital, was clear. The enormous parliament compound was filled with thousands of people and I was one…
By Phuong Nguyen — Myanmar experienced a number of firsts over the past week. The Union Parliament — which now counts former political prisoners, doctors, businesspeople, and poets among its ranks — on March 24 approved a new cabinet to…
By Conor Cronin & Norashiqin Toh — On May 9, voters in the Philippines will head to the polls to pick a new president. Outgoing president Benigno Aquino III leaves his successor with a nation hoping to balance economic ties…
Who is he? Nai Thet Lwin is an ethnic Mon politician in Myanmar and vice chairman of the Mon National Party (MNP). He was born in 1940 in Karen State and studied at Moulmein University in neighboring Mon State. He…
By Jonathan London — For Vietnam, periods of Chinese expansionism have always posed existential threats. And yet the nature and scope of the present threat is novel in the experience of Vietnam. In this context, a certain lucidity has taken…
