Sweden also has official minority languages such as Finnish and Sámi, which are prominent in certain geographic areas. These ...

Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

Beijing is determined to win the world over to its one-China principle, which holds that Taiwan is an “inalienable part” of ...

In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. This audacious and imaginative attack on Hezbollah killed at least nine people and ...

A new United Nations climate instrument to support the most vulnerable countries will make its mark if it follows six key ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

Quad countries are right. The region does not want a China-centred order. Yet, the Quad’s language and that of its member countries – promoting a “free and open Indo-Pacific” – does not resonate with ...

Recent news of pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris stirred up the internet – the Instagram post in which she made the announcement garnered more than eight ...

The persistent gap between male and female labour market participation is a trend common to all regions of the world. Across the Indo-Pacific region, research shows that women are not benefiting from ...