The political history of South Asia is amongst the most fascinating and complex in the world, animated by robust, self-affirming struggles for independence, partition and the creation of new nations ...

and what it will take to resolve the decades-long crisis. The evolving geopolitics in the South Pacific were on full display at the 50th PIF.

This month we’re going to learn about Korea’s successful battle for independence from Japan, which it finally achieved on August 15, 1945. There’s no better place to learn about this than the ...

He discusses South Asian politics, democratic movements, and social transformation ... In any other society, such a ...

Chibi refers to the Ryukyu Kingdom, a once-independent maritime state that governed these South Pacific islands ... interest in Okinawa’s independence movement. For Robert D.

According to Deanne Uyangoda, protection coordinator in Asia Pacific for NGO Front Line Defenders, while women have always been integral to protest movements in South Asia, “their role in co ...

Seventy years since India gained its independence from the British Empire ... evil be a handicap in my new role as the BBC's South Asia correspondent? The answer is it hasn't been.

Born in Haeju, in the modern day North Korean province of South Hwanghae, in 1899, Lee joined the independence movement but was later forced into exile in Shanghai in 1919. In 1920, Lee traveled ...