Asia

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency successfully argued in a High Court case in London that accounts at the Banque...

In authoritarian Azerbaijan, corporate ownership records are not publicly available — and transparency campaigners have...

The United Kingdom unveiled its most extensive sanctions package against Russia since 2023, targeting the country’s military...

Press freedom organizations are calling for the release of a Vietnamese blogger sentenced to 12 years in prison for...

Kyrgyz independent journalists fear surveillance as individuals claiming to be law enforcement question their families and...

After the killing of crime boss Kamchy Kolbaev, Kyrgyz authorities have intensified their crackdown on prominent business...

Whether it’s Silk Way West Airlines, the PASHA Holding conglomerate, or fabric company GILTEX — everywhere this year’s...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner lost their parliamentary majority after Prime Minister Shigeru...

The Kyrgyz Parliament’s law-enforcement committee approved the first reading of a draft law on Tuesday that would fine or...

Kyrgyz authorities arrested local blogger Azamat Karabayev on Tuesday, just hours after he posted a video exposing how a...

Russian forces have been systematically imprisoning, torturing, and killing civilians in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region...

Belarussian Alexander Zaitsev, nicknamed President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s “money bag,” appears to have shipped luxury goods...