Aung San Suu Kyi has made some new friends on her way from icon to politician: Burma’s former military men and crony capitalists are getting cosy. The country’s minorities, not so much.

Not even the cops will venture across all the violent divisions between enemies in Pakistan’s blood-soaked megacity. Only the guys driving the make-shift ambulances do that. No gloves, either. One night in ...

Crunching the numbers on the Communist Party.

A frenzied election in Jakarta makes it look like democracy is flourishing in Indonesia. Or maybe it’s a dry run for the return of authoritarianism.

A viral Internet video in Indonesia is one sign of a public increasingly fed up with its embarrassing elite.

The downfall of Bo Xilai is China’s biggest political crisis in a generation. But is it a coming of age for the country’s netizens?

In Thailand’s far south, a brutal and little-known conflict is killing hundreds of people every year. And it appears to be getting worse.

Singapore used to be a strange little bubble of wealth, blandness and prurience in Asia. Has it now become a model for the world?

By-elections that brought Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament have delighted the world. But Myanmar’s political transformation is far from over.

Myanmar’s parliamentary poll has put Aung San Suu Kyi back into politics, as Westerners circle one of globalisation’s last frontiers.

East Timorese are desperately poor with a government swimming in cash. Is it buying its way out of poverty, or into economic disaster?

A truly independent future for East Timor depends on its upcoming election going smoothly.

Chinese study centres are rapidly multiplying at schools and universities around the world, including Australia. They come Communist Party-approved.

The North Korean capital is going through a surprising (and slightly mysterious) boom.

On a tour introducing China’s future leader to the world, we all got a good look at Xi Jinping.

Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is on Malaysia's "watch list". Detained at the airport, he's going to be deported instead of meeting opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim — this backstory explains him.

As Indonesia’s wealth grows, so too does criticism of the nation’s ubiquitous corruption—and its “auto-pilot” president.

In remote territory beyond the reach of Myanmar’s generals, rebels create their own jarring sense of normality.

Announced on Thursday as a finalist for the Walkley award for international journalism, this February report is from behind the lines of a largely unacknowledged war in Myanmar's north.

Chongqing is China’s frantic boom city with an inward twist: a perplexing mixture of materialism and Mao.

A new draft mineral law would end the freewheeling approach of Monogolia's minerals industry. Aubrey Belford toured Monogolia's "Wolf Economy" back when people made their fortune, legally or otherwise.