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Spotlight on Asia

A weekly analysis of news and current affairs in countries in Asia from East to West.

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New Dehli, an LGBTI supporter waves a rainbow-symbol flag outside the Supreme Court on 6 September 2018 after the Court scrapped Section 377 to decriminalize adult homosexual relations.

India's LGBT victory cry as Supreme Court scraps Section 377 heard across continents
Shujaat Bukhari's coffin in the streets of Srinagar, before the burial of the editor of Rising Kashmir and former RFI English correspondent, 15 June 2018

Journalist Shujaat Bukhari murdered as UN issues first human rights report on Kashmir
A labourer works at a construction site of a bridge on the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Sri Lanka faces futher debt as China pursues One Belt, One Road project
Supporters of ousted President Park Geun-hye gather outside a court after judges handed down a 24-year sentence, in Seoul, South Korea, April 6, 2018.

South Korea's ex-President Park's fall from Blue House to jail
Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping review the guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 9 January, 2018.

China is investing in Europe, but what is it investing in?
A Hmong woman walks along a river in northern Lao Cai province, Vietnam.

Laos: the fate of the Hmong
Men stand in front of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 17, 2017.

Dissolving democracy in Cambodia
Hamletmachine, an audiovisual installation by Nalini Malini features in the retrospective at Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris October 2017 -January 2018

An avant-garde Indian artist looks both forwards and back in history

Still from the rotoscopy film Tehran Taboo directed by director Ali Soozandeh

Iran through the eyes of Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Poster for Hindi film 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' directed by Alankrita Shrivastava which opened the FFAST South Asia Film Festival in Paris, October 2017

Feminist film unbanned in India, showing in Paris
Ashoka pillar in Vaishali, Bihar, India. The pillars were erected across India and were inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan Empire ruler Ashoka, more than 200 BCE

French researcher digs into ancient India text on good governance
Fawzia Koofin, vice president of the Afghanistan parliament

Exclusive: Why Afghanistan lawmakers want more US troops
Supporters of newly re-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold placards bearing a portrait of him as they take to the streets to celebrate his victory in downtown Tehran on May 20, 2017.

The Iranian presidential elections - do they mean anything?
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, nicknamed Ahok, former governor of Jakarta

Does Jakarta's governor's exit signal a rise in religious intolerance?
Construction is shown on Subi Reef, in the Spratly Islands, the disputed South China Sea in this March 14, 2017 satellite image released by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to Reuters o

Spotlight on Asia
Same-sex couples Le Thuy Linh (L) and Tran Ngoc Diem Hang (2nd L), and Ho Hai Thinh (2nd R) and Pham Tien Dung (R), kiss during their public wedding as part of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) event on a street in Hanoi October 27, 2013.

Highlighting transgender issues in Vietnam.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un keeping an eye on things. State news agency, KCNA says he's supervising missile tests on March 7

A headline week for North and South Koreas

Asia already feeling negative impact of Trump's presidency
Sri Lankan Tamil woman praying, Colombo, 2015. Many Sri Lanka Tamils displaced by the long civil war have been able to return home.

Human rights and good governance push Sri Lanka forward
Candlelight protest in Seoul calling for president Park Guen Hye to step down and be tried for corruption 30/11/2016

South Korea's political crisis
National flags of Japan and the U.S. are seen in front of a monitor displaying U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on TV news at a foreign exchange trading company in Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2016.

What Donald Trump's election could mean for Asia

South Korean President Prak Geun-hye (in red) walks past members of the minor opposition Justice Party at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, November 8, 2016

South Korea's Choi-gate scandal reveals crisis of democracy
Sufi Dervish dance

Sunni-Muslim leaders criticise Saudi-sponsored Wahabbism
An Indian soldier on guard at Uri, near Line of Control between Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir

India, Pakistan keep Kashmir row boiling
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrives with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani for a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on 12 July, 2016.

Beefing up foreign troops again in Afghanistan
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