Who is she? Princess Bajrakitiyabha is the oldest daughter of Thailand’s Crown Prince and heir-apparent, Prince Vajiralongkorn. She is the only child of the Crown Prince and Princess Soamsavali. She is also the first grandchild of King Bhumibol and Queen…
By Dongwon Kim On October 23, 2014, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and United States will hold the 46th annual Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) in Washington D.C. where both sides will make a final decision on the delay of the…
By Brandon Cleary Any military support given to the Iranian government enhances its ability to protect its investments, deter oversight of its activities and, in turn, degrade the current sanctions regime imposed on the country. This calculation is as clear…
Who is she? Ms. Yanghee Lee, 58, was most recently a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Lee was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2003 and served as its chairperson…
By Richard Teare It was my good fortune to be assigned as deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassies in New Zealand from 1983 to 1986 and Australia from 1986 to 1989. New Zealand and Australia are congenial places…
By Donald Camp There was a time, not so long ago, when Sri Lanka was known for the quality of its democracy. In 1975, when I was a foreign service officer at the U.S. embassy there, the country was in…
By Ellen Kim, Sang Jun Lee & Andy Lim Starting from 5:42pm (local time in Seoul) on February 27, North Korea conducted a series of short-range ballistic missile tests. The South Korean military has announced that the North appears to…
By Abby Seiff In the past two decades, Cambodia has morphed into one of the world’s largest recipients of foreign aid. In the early 1990s, the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) carried out the biggest and most expensive experiment in…
By Carl Thayer The Hainan provincial government’s announcement last December that foreign ships transiting through waters within the nine-dash line area claimed by China must get permission from the relevant Chinese authorities is a major escalation of China’s claims in…
By Kathryn Tinker December 15 marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Lao agronomist Sombath Somphone. Sombath was stopped by traffic police and escorted to a pickup truck while driving home in Vientiane last December, and his whereabouts have…
