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.....to find its footing, with the combination of widespread corruption and powerful organized crime syndicates leading to rampant poverty.

One of Taiwan’s richest people now wants to be the island territory’s next leader. Terry Gou is the billionaire founder of Foxconn, a company best known for assembling Apple iPhones in China and elsewhere. Gou has announced a run for the presidency, promising that his business savvy will smooth over relations with Beijing, prevent a Chinese invasion and ensure that Taiwan

Vietnam's government wants TikTok to stop circulating videos it labels "useless" in their country. As in most one-party authoritarian states, it doesn't take much to get censored in Vietnam, but so far TikTok has had free rein. Officials are hoping to change that. But as The World's Patrick Winn reports, roughly half of all Vietnamese citizens are on TikTok, making an outright

Back in May, Thai voters picked a young progressive politician to become prime minister. But the military powers that be were unwilling to give him a shot as government leader. So, they paved the way for Srettha Thavisin to be named Thailand's new prime minister on Tuesday. Interestingly, he's from a party that has long promised to stand up to the country's military elites.

Hip-hop is now half a century old and, for decades, rappers have used the art form to condemn abusive police practices. That spirit has since spread globally. In Myanmar, rappers are considered the artistic arm of a revolution to bring down the ruling military through armed rebellion. Rap Against Junta is a collective of lyricists who work under pseudonyms and change locations