The next-gen leader and the forced video confessions on Facebook

The next-gen leader and the forced video confessions on Facebook

Observers say Cambodia’s change in leader is just an extension of times before,where opponents were threatened with beatings,“only they are younger”.

  • byZach Hope

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This country will have Christmas in October. People are not happy

This country will have Christmas in October. People are not happy

With a nationwide blackout,a broken economy and a widely contested election result there are only so many things a leader can do to win popular support.

  • byJulie Turkewitz
‘Grave provocation’:What does North Korea’s Kim Jong-un want?

‘Grave provocation’:What does North Korea’s Kim Jong-un want?

K-pop is blasting into North Korea once more as bizarre tactics ratchet up tensions on the peninsula. We explore what’s behind this “tit-for-tat” in an Explainer updated from earlier this year.

  • byAngus Holland andJackson Graham
Losing sleep over Trump? It’s time to wake up to the real tyrants

Losing sleep over Trump? It’s time to wake up to the real tyrants

Donald Trump is dangerous because he takes too much of our attention. So much so,people become blind to much larger threats.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness
‘They beat you constantly’:Chilean political prisoners reclaim torture sites

‘They beat you constantly’:Chilean political prisoners reclaim torture sites

Fifty years after a coup ushered in a brutal military rule that imprisoned,disappeared,tortured or killed some 40,000 people,five former prisoners return to the scene of the crimes.

  • byIvan Alvarado andNatalia A. Ramos Miranda
If Putin is about to fall,why do 82 per cent of Russians support him?

If Putin is about to fall,why do 82 per cent of Russians support him?

Russia is sinking deeper into the quagmire of Putinism,and there are few signs that the population is resisting the path the president is leading them down.

  • byLisa Haseldine
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From one dictator dad to another:Monica’s lost childhood in North Korea

From one dictator dad to another:Monica’s lost childhood in North Korea

Monica Macias was just seven when her African despot father left her with another feared leader,Kim Il-sung.

  • byJulia Llewellyn Smith
Orphans,songs about spilling blood:Russia takes celebration of war to another level

Orphans,songs about spilling blood:Russia takes celebration of war to another level

“They’re trying to militarise the whole society,” said Grigory Yudin,a political philosophy professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

  • byValerie Hopkins
Cambodia’s Hun Sen orders closure of independent news outlet

Cambodia’s Hun Sen orders closure of independent news outlet

The Voice of Democracy has had its licence taken after leader says the media organisation attacked him and his son.

  • byClare Baldwin
1984,Orwell’s novel of repression tops Russian bestseller lists

1984,Orwell’s novel of repression tops Russian bestseller lists

Readers in Putin’s Russia are rediscovering George Orwell’s dystopian world where totalitarian rulers oppress their citizens to maintain support for their wars.

  • byKevin Liffey
Assassinations become weapon of choice for guerrilla groups in Myanmar

Assassinations become weapon of choice for guerrilla groups in Myanmar

The movement to restore democracy has evolved into deadly warfare between a ruthless,well-supplied military and a broad but poorly armed resistance movement.

  • byRichard C. Paddock