Overcoming the constraints on South Korea’s growth
By Sangin Park The most urgent task facing the Lee Jae-myung administration after its inauguration in June 2025 was concluding tariff negotiations with the United States. Due to the impeachment of former president Yoon Suk-yeol, the 2025 presidential election coincided with unilateral tariff actions from the Trump administration, leaving South Korea unable to conduct proper
Trump Says Time For ‘New Leadership’ in Iran Amid Deadly Protest Crackdown
By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda US President Donald Trump said it was time for new leaders to take control in Iran after tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the country, presenting the Islamic republic with one of the most serious threats to its legitimacy since the 1979 revolution. “It’s time to look
Beyond textbooks: Social-emotional learning in India’s remote regions
By Debojit Dutta, Sneha Philip In Toni Morrison’s celebrated novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, its protagonist, longs to have blue eyes just like the Hollywood movie star Shirley Temple. It was a novel, Toni says, she was “compelled to write” because she wanted to read a book that spoke about the experience of racism and “racialised self-loathing”
After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike
By Jeff Hutton After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to widespread logging, expanding plantations and mining. In December, Indonesia’s forestry minister, Raja Juli Antoni, indicated the Southeast Asian nation had lost more forest during the first nine months of 2025 than the annual totals for any of the first three
Body of Chechen woman killed by ex-husband in France sent home two months after her death
By Elizaveta Chukharova The body of Chechnya-born Larisa Arsanukaeva, who was murdered by her ex-husband in the French city of Nice, was sent back to Chechnya more than two months after her death. This was reported by the Marem, a group which provides assistance to victims of domestic abuse in the North Caucasus. According to
