Asia

Russia targets Komi Daily as a “terrorist organization,” citing alleged separatist links amid growing media suppression.

Moldova arrests former Kyrgyz presidential advisor who had requested political asylum after accusing his president of...

The U.S. has blacklisted more than 180 vessels caught filling the Kremlin’s war chest for its war against Ukraine.

Philippine authorities have charged Huang Zhiyang with human trafficking, sued him for alleged money laundering, and frozen...

Takeshi Ebisawa, a high-ranking Yakuza member, has pleaded guilty in a New York court to trafficking weapons-grade nuclear...

A major donor-funded water plant in the capital of Solomon Islands was supposed to fix a clean water crisis. But people...

This year’s host country for the COP climate conference, an authoritarian petrostate, has long courted members of Britain’s...

Suspected members of a massive Singapore money laundering syndicate snapped up almost $30 million in Dubai properties,...

A Kyrgyz court upheld prison and probation sentences for four Temirov Live journalists accused of “calling for mass unrest,”...

The family and associates of Azerbaijani strongman Ilham Aliyev acquired U.K. real estate worth hundreds of millions of...

Leaked property records show Tajikistan’s political elite have a taste for luxury apartments in Dubai. One of them, the...

The repressive Central Asian nation has never been an easy place to be a journalist. But a notorious crackdown on peaceful...