Russia will hold its ninth presidential election this year which is set to be held in three days from 15 to 17 March 2024. During the process, if no candidate is able to secure more than half of the vote, re-election will take place exactly...
Myanmar has historically witnessed perpetual battles with military junta, politico-civil upheaval, and weak governance for decades since gaining independence. The country’s stability was further fragmented by the military coup staged in Feb...
Bhutan's Tshering Tobgay, a liberal politician and the leader of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), began his second term as Prime Minister in January 2024. According to a statement made on the Bhutanese King's official Facebook page, Kin...
The 26th January 2024 marked India’s 75th Republic Day celebrations with French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit and as the Chief Guest upon invitation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was President Macron’s second state vi...
On November 19, 2023, Israel reported that Yemen's Houthis had seized a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, calling the action an "Iranian act of terrorism" with international maritime security implicatio...
The next Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting which was supposed to be held on 27 January 2024 hosted by India has undergone a rescheduling. with no fixed dates decided yet. This means that US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime M...
On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters broke through Israeli border defenses, stormed, and attacked military installations, slaughtered innocent civilians, and took several Israeli citizens hostage. The failure of Israeli intelligence to antici...
The start of bilateral exchanges between Japan and ASEAN can be traced back to the establishment of the Japan-ASEAN Synthetic Rubber Forum in 1973, and 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of these exchanges [1]. Since the 1973 dial...
On October 23, Lyonpo Tandi Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade met with the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing as part of the 25th Round of Boundary Talks in Beijing where the Chinese delegation was led by Sun We...
President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping, in an attempt to normalize ties between the USA and China hampered by trade and security issues, met for a meeting that lasted over four hours on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Coope...
China’s economy started showing indications of its post-Covid recovery failing from the month of April 2023 with growing concerns of an economic slump. The concerns were validated by July when the economy was reported to have performed weak...
The European Union's 27 national leaders gathered on 06 October in Granada, Spain, to discuss the path to this enlargement, and long-term goals for increasing the EU's strategic autonomy while highlighting accomplishments so far. They adopt...
