Opinion

In a military-ruled society where junta leaders preach a gospel of anti-corruption, hearing its army chief tell the media and designated graft-busters they shouldn’t...

Across the world, violence against women and girls remains one of the most serious — and the most tolerated — human rights violations, both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality and discrimination.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk

By Swe Win
Myanmar Now

YANGON — In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is seen as a victory of the people over the military and its ruling political elite.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk

By Chris Patten
Project Syndicate

LONDON – A great deal of water has flowed through the Taiwan Strait in the 70 years since the leader of China’s Communists, Mao Zedong, met the leader of his nationalist opponents, Chiang Kai-shek. So the recent meeting in Singapore between their heirs, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic and his Taiwanese counterpart, Ma Ying-jeou, could legitimately be described as historic.

Has it been 15, 16 or perhaps 17 months we’ve lived under military rule? Some, myself included, have begun to lose track of how long we’ve lived under the junta since the May 2014 coup. And we have no idea how many more years we’ll have to endure.

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Project Syndicate

TOKYO – As Shinzo Abe sits down this week in Seoul with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, he does so as the leader of a country that many people around the world now seriously underestimate. That dynamic certainly will be felt during the three Northeast Asian powers’ first summit since 2012.

By Zhang Jun

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.