ASIA

NEPAL: ‘Voting on Discord was a very Gen Z way of doing politics’

AFGHANISTAN: ‘The Criminal Procedure Code consolidates ideological and legal control over society’

INDONESIA: ‘We are building the country we want, brick by brick, even if we won’t see the final result’

Thailand: reform deferred again

Border war, systematic repression and electoral flaws hand power to conservatives

HONG KONG: ‘Independent civil society is being replaced with state-aligned structures’

Post-protest Bangladesh: restoration more than renewal

Bangladesh’s first credible election in almost two decades delivers change, but not the transformation Gen Z protested for

Nepal’s Gen Z electoral revolution

New government has strong mandate for change, but civil society needs to hold it to account

KAZAKHSTAN: ‘This constitution is the final institutional lock on authoritarian rule’

CHINA: ‘The state is using generative AI to engineer reality through informational gaslighting’

NEPAL: ‘The political system only moves when threatened directly’