Reporting from Angkor, Cambodia, is Raffaele Crocco.
Jorani speaks rarely. In spite of his silence, the name means 'radiant jewel'. He drives his tuk-tuk and is silent, almost all the time. He drives through the ruins of Angkor and merely...
by Ambra Visentin
The decades-long dispute between Japan and South Korea over the compensation of forced labourers seems finally set to be resolved. For years, the governments have been arguing about compensation for former forced labourers and forced prostitutes, the...
by Theo Guzman
The Burmese junta's decision to extend the state of emergency for another six months on 1 February, two years after the coup, is an indirect admission that it cannot hold elections in a country that is largely...
By Theo Guzman
This reportage from Yangon appeared first on February 1st. It has since been updated as of February 2nd.
Returning from Yangon - On february 1st, 2023, yet another silent strike across most of Myanmar marked the the second...
By our envoy in Asia, Emanuele Giordana
Vientiane, Laos - When the Russian Defence Ministry announced on 9 January that Moscow had received 30 vintage T-34/85 tanks from Laos, some may have thought it was a sign of Lao-Russian friendship...
By our director, Raffaele Crocco - from Vietnam
It looks like a large sea, at 5 a.m. A brown, unhealthy sea. Dangerous. "Oh no, don't worry " says Steve, our guide "this river must be of this brown colour. No...
by Ambra Visentin
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov travelled to South Africa on Monday for talks with one of his country's most important allies on an African continent divided by the invasion of Ukraine and Western attempts to isolate Moscow....
By Damilola Banjo for PassBlue.
This article featured originally on PassBlue.
Ruchira Kamboj, India’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council could no longer afford to delay being more reflective of the diversity of the UN “wider membership” if...
by Ambra Visentin
Once the dark side of 'the Moon' was exposed, there was no turning back. The tsunami of revelations about the practices of the Unification Church, also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and...
By Emanuele Giordana
As if it had not already been very complicated to find a formula for a joint final declaration among the G20 leaders on the war in Ukraine, the explosions that took place on the night of Tuesday...
