No questions askedMyanmar’s awful schools are a drag on the economy—and politicsThe government is spending more, but teachers and students are still unhappyprint-edition iconNov 30th 2017
Smoke and tremorsFiery Mount Agung is just one of 127 active volcanoes in IndonesiaMonitoring them all is no small taskprint-edition iconNov 30th 2017
Armed and obstreperousPakistan’s army is once again undermining the civilian governmentIt ignored an order to help disperse Islamist protestersprint-edition iconNov 30th 2017
BanyanA film about heroism brings out the coward in India’s politiciansNo protest is too absurd, no surrender too cravenprint-edition iconNov 30th 2017
Rocket man extends a handNorth Korea tests its most powerful missile yetBut the rhetoric accompanying the launch was relatively mildprint-edition iconNov 29th 2017
A sombre successThe Australian state of Victoria legalises assisted dyingSome 50 bills have been introduced in different Australian states. This is the first to passprint-edition iconNov 29th 2017
Fruit and rutsThe Philippines has the most persistent poverty in South-East AsiaBut the government of Rodrigo Duterte is paying the poor some attentionprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Pier pressureCoal becomes a flashpoint in a close election in AustraliaOne big party wants to subsidise a new export scheme in Queensland; the other does notprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Grey perilCrooks in Japan are getting older and more hardenedThe prisons are full of pensionersprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Getting SetyaA kickback scandal ensnares the speaker of Indonesia’s parliamentThe counter-corruption agency accuses Setya Novanto of helping to inflate the cost of public contractsprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Mountain skewNepal’s election may at last bring stabilityGood government might be too much to hope forprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Patriotic bribesSouth Korea’s spymasters admit giving the former president cashThey say they did it for the good of the countryprint-edition iconNov 23rd 2017
Cash in handMyanmar has one of the lowest tax takes in the worldThat makes it hard for the new, democratic government to offer decent public servicesprint-edition iconNov 16th 2017
Cows and seepDairy farming is polluting New Zealand’s waterGovernment data suggests that 60% of rivers and lakes are unswimmableprint-edition iconNov 16th 2017