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 ...

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 ...

Since their inception, private markets have been out of reach for most individual investors. The long-term time horizons, complexity, lack of liquidity and high fees, not to mention regulations aimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pitched for the democratisation of technology to bridge the data divide and told G20 development ministers that India is willing to share its experience with ...