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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev doesn't like the name Kazakhstan. "Kazakhstan has the 'stan' ending like many other nations of Central Asia. At the same time, foreigners take an interest in Mongolia, the population of which makes up...

We spend a lot of time on RedTea News making fun of North Korea, because its leaders often pull stunts that are downright wacky. But really, a Communist dictatorship that brutally abuses and starves its own people is not all that funny. And the DPRK...

The hard work starts now for Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy. After election success the party faces myriad challenges, not least the delicate task of dealing with the powerful military Few guessed at the scale of the victory. Myanmar...

The global euphoria towards peace and democracy in Myanmar seems to be fading fast. Many cases of ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas and organised massacre of Muslim minorities in central parts of the country have occurred since 2012. More than 250 people...

A Myanmar court on Tuesday jailed a former monk and leader of the 2007 anti-junta uprising for six months with hard labor on immigration charges, a member of his defense team said, but he was likely to be released soon because of time already served...