Since the mid 1990s, public criticism of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) government has expanded to involve thousands of citizens across the country. From this ferment of criticism numerous ...

Taiwan has been hailed as a textbook example of a successful transition to democracy. At the end of the civil war in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), lost to Mao Zedong's ...

A key question which has bedevilled political scientists for decades has been the exact relationship of economic development and democracy. As the question is of great significance for a fledgling ...

The clock is ticking to find a last-minute solution to Thailand’s escalating conflict. A solution will not come from the extremists on both sides. Instead, it will have to be the moderates who reach ...

What a difference an election makes. Malaysia’s 14th general elections on Wednesday were understood by all observers to be a close-fought battle between the long-ruling Barisan Nasional regime, the ...

The Arab World has never had a democratic polity – Kuwait, Lebanon and Morocco have had worthy approximations. Oil-poor Tunisia is emerging as the region’s first genuine democracy. That will be an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. March 28 this year was a date for the history books. It marked the first time the Nigerian presidential ...

Genie AI’s original mission to disrupt the legal industry by serving Magic Circle law firms changed to focusing on legal departments in large enterprises.

Much has been discussed about how the explosion of healthcare data can lead to better health insights and outcomes for more people, given the access to cheaper computing power and growth of artificial ...