Current Affairs

Asia Society Magazine examines South Korea’s gender divide with Hawon Jung, author of the recently published book ‘Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide.’ Jung offers a glimpse into the challenges, triumphs, and ongoing struggles that South Korean women face as they fight back against sexual assault, digital sex crimes, and deeply-rooted patriarchal gender norms, and how the nation’s #MeToo movement can inspire feminist movements in Asia and beyond.

In this episode, we are joined by Parag Khanna, an internationally best-selling author who has written about globalization and geopolitics. His most recent book “MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future” is about a new era of mass migration we are entering, propelled by changing economies, technology disruptions, conflict, and climate change.

In this episode, we are joined by Parag Khanna, an internationally best-selling author who has written about globalization and geopolitics. His most recent book “MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future” is about a new era of mass migration we are entering, propelled by changing economies, technology disruptions, conflict, and climate change.

Through a series of oral histories, author Anam Zakaria shows how Partition continues to unfold and impact lives across three nations.

An excerpt from Abby Seiff's book Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia, with photographs by Roun Ry

Long anticipated, a sweeping crackdown on corruption has some officials too nervous to start new infrastructure projects, procure medical equipment, and more.

While the World Cup host faces a flurry of criticism, Maryam Alsubaiey explains why she remains cautiously optimistic about the potential for lasting positive change in her home country.

This year's National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which kicks off on October 16, is set to be one of the most consequential Party gatherings in decades. General Secretary Xi Jinping is primed to secure an unprecedented third five-year term as president, breaking a set of norms and rules within the Chinese political system. In this video, Jing Qian of the Center for China Analysis, breaks down what makes this 20th Party Congress so historic, and identifies the key players to watch.

Neighbor to a superpower, India’s foreign policy has long been one of treading lightly. Under Narendra Modi that has begun to change.

As Sri Lanka has lurched from crisis to crisis, lasting improvement has been hard to come by. But with increasing talk of systemic change, the drama of 2022 could prove a turning point.

Long lumped into a single box of victimhood, the women of Afghanistan are trying to reclaim their identity.

As geopolitics heats up in the region, superpowers would be wise to listen to their Pacific Island counterparts.