The center has given in principle approval for a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Telangana; the Bihar cabinet approved subsidies to energy consumers; Cisco launched Cisco START to help small and medium enterprises in Gujarat; Haryana announced…
By Maria Krol Sinclair — At a joint signing ceremony on September 13, the United States and Taiwan announced that Taiwan will purchase $3 billion worth of agricultural products from the United States, the largest single new trade transaction to…
By CSIS’s Beyond Parallel Staff — Key Findings: 91.6 percent of North Korean respondents consume foreign media at least once each month. 83 percent of respondents said they found outside goods and information to be of greater impact on their…
The death of longtime Thai King Bhumipol Adulyadej and the succession of his son, King Vajiralongkorn, marks the beginning of a sensitive period in Thai politics entering 2017. Murray Hiebert, Deputy Director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, joins the…
By Trien Vinh Le — Vietnam has a rather opaque political environment. The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) rules with absolute political control, as is spelled out in the country’s constitution, which sometimes results in the suppression of activists and…
By Chau Hoang — To catapult Vietnam up the ranks of the world’s leading economies, Hanoi has resolved to turn the country into a “start-up nation” by 2020. The government plans to implement regulatory and financial measures to coax one…
By Abby Seiff — On the morning of July 10, political analyst Kem Ley was gunned down at his local café in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. An analyst and social researcher, Kem Ley was a media mainstay. For foreign newspapers, he…
By Nguyen Manh Hung The recent congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which wrapped up January 28, was unique in many ways. It was the first congress in the internet era, which deprived the party of a monopoly…
By Megan Kelly – For years, China has occupied a dominant space in U.S. reporting of world affairs. A 2003 study by University of Michigan’s Communication Studies Department shows that while media does not strongly influence the American public’s opinions…
By Victor Cha & Lisa Collins — Tensions between North and South Korea escalated rapidly in the late summer of 2015 after an August 4 landmine blast in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the fortified border that separates the two sides…
