Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of international news. It has been a while so let’s quickly get to the top global developments over the past week:Ukraine war ...

The government is stepping up scrutiny of members of the civil service and military for signs of misplaced allegiances.

While his victory in the presidential election is an immediate win for South Korean democracy, Lee Jae-myung must now ...

Progressive Lee Jae-myung to take 'prudent' Taiwan stance, while balancing Beijing trade ties and US-Japan three-way alliance, analysts say South Korea's new progressive president is likely to adopt a ...

Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung won a comfortable victory in South Korea’s snap presidential election. But far-right forces ...

Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea's president on Wednesday, just hours after his victory was certified in a snap ...

South Korea's new liberal President Lee Jae-myung pledged on Wednesday to raise the country from what he described as the ...

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open mostly higher Wednesday after Wall Street rose on the back of a tech rally, led by ...

A left-leaning politician who said South Korea should not be as “antagonizing” toward communist U.S. adversaries is poised to ...

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won three presidential elections in a ... Expatriate Chinese also vote in Taiwan elections. Presidents Tsai and now Lai represent equality, fairness ...

Nevertheless, no presidential candidate in the recent ... Based on our own analysis of Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study (which collects data of voting behaviour and changes in ...

This was the first time a party has won three straight presidential elections in Taiwan, albeit with only 40.1 per cent of the vote and the loss of a legislative majority. Alongside political shifts, ...