World Affairs Reporter
Liam Chen covers geopolitics, diplomacy and global development, with a focus on making complex international stories accessible.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 — here's why it happened, how the war is going, and what the possible outcomes are.
The Vienna Convention makes diplomats almost untouchable by design, leaving waivers, expulsions and cases like Harry Dunn's to show how…
Each Panama Canal transit flushes roughly 200 million litres of fresh water into the sea, so drought forces the authority to ration…
Seven states claim wedges of Antarctica, and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty neither accepts nor rejects any of them, freezing the dispute under…
The live-service model turned games from products into ongoing services funded by cosmetics and battle passes, with consequences for…
Migrant workers send home roughly three times what rich countries give in foreign aid, and the fees skimmed from those transfers remain one…
A third of UK households have no off-street parking, and closing the gap between home-charging economics and public-charging reality is the…
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile can hold 74 billion cubic metres, and the row with Egypt turns on colonial-era water…
Japan's population has fallen by roughly five million since its 2008 peak, and its responses — automation, quietly expanded work visas and…
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