In a recent interview with Kyodo News, Edward Snowden sounded the alarm about the bill and its “normalization of surveillance culture” in Japanese society.

The Public Safety Act (PSA) allows incarceration without trial for two years and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is a constitutional provision that gives Indian troops overarching powers and legal immunity for their actions in Jammu and Kashmir.

Leadership is crucial. As with the 1975 Helsinki Conference, Track II leadership may be an important factor in highlighting shared stability concerns and a strengthening of the rules of the game.

“It’s clear that the purpose of detaining him is to stop the anti-base protests … He took a central role in opposing the military base. His detention is a warning to others, just as construction enters a key phase,” retired judge Isamu Nakasone said.

The nuclearization and militarization of Indian Ocean poses a grave threat to the regional peace and security, Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Saturday.

That would put the country on a path to meeting its Paris commitments several years early.

As the United States ushers in a new right wing president into office, South Korea is about to give theirs the boot.

How effective will it be to isolate Pakistan regionally when SAARC itself has yet to live up to its expectations from the people of the region?

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula is one of the most serious issues facing the world because the impact North Korea's use of nuclear weapons would have.

Delegations of Veterans for Peace activists have arrived in Okinawa, Japan, to join protests against the construction of U.S. Marine helipads in Takae, as well as the construction of a new U.S. military base in Henoko. Residents of Okinawa have staged massive protests against both the proposed base and the helipads. Okinawa already houses about 26,000 U.S. troops. The Veterans ...

Myanmar has been torn by fighting between the military, which seized power in the 1962 coup, and ethnic armed groups since the end of the Second World War