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Four elderly women at work in the fields of South Korea’s countryside. ERLO BROWN/SHUTTERSTOCK

Hailey Maxwell profiles the East Asian nation and its flourishing soft power.

Two women and a man smile outside a green and blue building. The man carries chopped wood.

Alexey Sakhnin considers the country that made international headlines for massive anti-government protests...

A blue and yellow metro train

This article is almost three years old.

Written well before Russia’s recent invasion, this 2020 profile of Ukraine, by Bennett Murray, provides...

Girls sit at desks in a school classroom

This article is more than one year old.

For so long subject to ‘the tyranny of strangers’, Zoe Holman explores the ongoing appetite for change in...

Botswana

This article is almost five years old.

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality.

Lebanon

This article is almost five years old.

Civil war, ISIS invasions, mountains of rubbish. Reem Haddad reports from Beirut.

Paraguay

This article is more than five years old.

Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the country’s precarious democracy....

Fiji

This article is more than five years old.

Inclusive rhetoric by Fiji’s PM is belied by police repression, reports Wame Valentine.

Bahrain

This article is more than five years old.

Despite the atrocious human rights situation in the country, the West finds much to celebrate about Bahrain. Zoe...

Two women sheltering from the heat. A look at Uzbekistan today

This article is more than five years old.

In December, the country elected the successor of long-time dictator Karimov. But things might not get much better.

Somaliland

This article is more than five years old.

Despite its ‘exceptional’ peace and stability, Somaliland remains fragile, says Claire Elder.

This article is almost six years old.

Power rests in the hands of a corrupt military and political oligarchy that denies people the right to self-determination,...

This article is almost six years old.

After the 2015 earthquake, foreign governments and organizations pledged $4.1 billion in gifts and loans, but funds are yet to...

This article is almost six years old.

Both cash flow and political power have remained concentrated in Cambodia, writes Zoe Holman.

This article is more than nine years old.

A flourishing economy, more jobs and less poverty - is Bolivia a Latin American success story?

This article is more than ten years old.

Maria Golia considers Egypt's past, present and future.

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