THE revolution that is changing the face of Asia today is fundamentally a continuation of what has been the basic impulse of the East for the last 150 years: the impulse to catch up in power and ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for ...

After the creation of the United States–Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2005, trade between the two countries flourished, and the U.S. is now Australia’s largest source of foreign direct investment ...

Richard Haass thinks the US president's week in the region went well, if only because it could have gone so much worse.

Manufacturers from the six nations that make most of the world's clothes have forged a common front to negotiate better terms ...

China is set to expand its influence over Southeast Asia's development as the Trump administration and other Western donors slash aid, a study by an Australian think tank said Sunday. The region is in ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...