Singapore Keeps Hanging Low-Level Drug Couriers, But It Can't Execute Its Way to a Drug-Free Society
The Singaporean government hanged Pannir Selvam this month, the 10th convict to be executed in 2025 for nonviolent narcotics violations.
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Capitalism in the Cracks: How Japan's Microspaces Unleash Economic Experimentation
These spaces are so small that most cities would ignore them. Tokyo doesn't.
Trump's New Trade Deal Has a Clear Winner: Vietnam
Americans will continue to pay higher tariffs, while Vietnamese businesses won't pay anything. Whatever happened to reciprocity?
What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance, and Resistance
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.
Floating Failure
Plus: Taiwan heats up, Robert Moses and Rockaway Beach, CBDCs, and more...
How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam
It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.
Hong Kong Falls, Again
Plus: DEI at the DOE, NYC subway culture, the pandemic's effect on student behavior, and more...
Pol Pot's Atrocities Still Matter, 45 Years After Khmer Rouge's Fall
Like many horrors throughout history, they were rooted in radical ideas aimed at implementing some utopian vision.
Can Traditional Legal Customs Coexist With Western-Style State Law?
Geoffrey Swenson’s book Contending Orders tackles Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.
Deirdre McCloskey: 'What We Want Is a Nonslave Society'
The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.
Remy: Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters Parody)
Asian adversaries aerially admire American angst and apathy.
The Answer to Population Decline Is More Immigration
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
If China Invades, Taiwan Shouldn't Count on U.S. Support
Compared to Russia, war with China is a deeper nightmare.
Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
The World Is Back on a War Footing and We'll All Pay the Price
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
Concentration Camp Survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun on Her Imprisonment in Xinjiang
"The only crime of most of us was that we were Uyghur Muslims," says Ziyawudun.
China Expands Crypto Crackdown, Targeting Mining and Overseas Platforms
Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.
Hong Kong's Free Press Is Dying
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
Singapore Is Not the Model for a More Libertarian America
The island nation's harsh drug sentences, crackdowns on speech, and poor treatment of blue-collar immigrants make Singapore's policy not worth replicating.
Hong Kong Dissidents Win 1 Demand—Now There's 4 More to Go
Today, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the controversial extradition bill that set off protests.
Pro-Democracy Activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow Arrested in Hong Kong
"Hong Kong is a place without basic political and economic freedom," Wong tells Reason.
Hong Kong's Market Is Providing Gas Masks and Protest Gear Despite Government Crackdown
Despite police harassment and border confiscations, protest supplies continue to make their way to dissidents.
Hong Kong Protesters Use Umbrellas, Lasers, and Respirators to Evade Surveillance and Tear Gas
As Beijing develops a high-tech police state, Hongkongers develop ways to resist it.
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz vs. NYU's William Easterly
Watch two leading development economists debate at the Soho Forum.
Malaysia Ditches Terrible Fake News Law
Disseminating fake news was punishable by up to six years behind bars.
Travel Shows Were Boring as Fuck. Then Came Anthony Bourdain.
The late travel host changed television—and my life.
Nuclear Button Bluster Aside, Trump's Intervention Impulses Can Be Curbed
The "bloody nose" strategy favored by some in his administration is extraordinarily reckless.
Trump Trip to Asia Mostly a Welcome Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy
Diplomacy and dialogue are more fruitful than containment and condemnation.
How Freedom Made Us Rich
Economist Deirdre McCloskey explains the roots of "The Great Enrichment" of the last 200 years.
Mattis Assuages Concerns in South Korea, Japan
News from the defense secretary's alliance-mending trip to Asia
The Fate of Baishizhou
State-sponsored redevelopment threatens one of China's most dynamic urban villages.
Nepal's Earthquake: How Not to Rebuild a Nation
In an environment of poverty and corruption, rigorous building codes do more harm than good
How Human Beings Shaped 'Wild' Forests
...and what that might suggest about people's rights to those forests today
Obama Vows To Expand North America-Asia Trade Agreements
Made the comment at meeting with North American leaders
Bangladesh Court Sentences Opposition Leader, 13 Others to Death
Over a decade-old arms smuggling case
Officials in Tajikistan Not Happy About Resurgence of Russian Names
One official says the trend is a sign of a "low level of national and patriotic identity of the younger generation"
Japan's PM Warns Asian Leaders Not To Waste Wealth on Arms Race
A not very well hidden jab at China
Study: Asian Air Pollution Affecting Weather, Climate Patterns
From NASA and Texas A&M
White House Pushing For Congress To Give Obama Trade Promotion Authority
Administration working on negotiating trade deals with the European Union as well as Latin American and Asian countries
Joe Biden in South Korea: US to Play Leading Role in Security, Prosperity of Asia
Have a chance to bend history the VP says
Bill Gates Urges Norway To Spend More of its $800 Billion Oil Fund in Africa and Asia
The prime minister supports the proposal
Tajik President Expected To Win Fourth Term
Opposition candidates weren't keen to criticize government policy
Autocratic Tajikistan President Faces No Real Challenge in Re-Election Bid
Even his "opponents" have praised him
Biden To Emphasize Policy Pivot Towards Asia in Visit to South Korea, China, Japan
Trip will take place in first week of December
Prosecutors in Cambodia Seeking Life in Prison For Khmer Rouge Leaders
Accused of committing crimes against humanity
