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Last month, Thailand hosted the International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) meetings for the second time in 35 years. The annual gathering put a...
Ethnicity plays out differently across Malaysia. On the peninsula, identity politics is comparatively rigid: Malay vs non-Malay, with Islam and Malay...
Since coming to power in August 2024, General Secretary To Lam has emphasised his ambition to turn Vietnam into a high-income country by 2045. Towards...
SpaceX discontinued its Global Roam service for existing customers as of Monday. The US company offered no specific reason beyond regulatory...
When Ajit Doval met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in June, New Delhi’s national security adviser called China and India “partners, not rivals”...
In the discussion on Hong Kong’s first ever five-year plan, much ink has been spilled on the merits of a planned economy. The most recent example of...
Hearts across the globe are aching for communities along the Nepal-Tibet border. Late last month, a catastrophic flash flood ripped apart whole...
Vietnam is often held up as proof of China’s underwhelming soft power in Southeast Asia: a millennium of resistance against Chinese domination, a...
Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz. Across three events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Vladivostok...
Critical minerals have become a recurring source of friction in international diplomacy, with China’s dominance in the sector and US efforts to...
A string of electoral victories in recent years has inspired the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) to go for more urbanised and developed states in...
Imagine this: one major power launches an operation against another’s ship in a sensitive strategic zone, acting on intelligence that the vessel is...
Japan has long established itself as a pioneer of mediation in Southeast Asia. In 1990, for example, its officials helped broker talks between...
Japan has long established itself as a pioneer of mediation in Southeast Asia. In 1990, for example, its officials helped broker talks between...
Imagine this: one major power launches an operation against another’s ship in a sensitive strategic zone, acting on intelligence that the vessel is...
A string of electoral victories in recent years has inspired the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) to go for more urbanised and developed states in...
Critical minerals have become a recurring source of friction in international diplomacy, with China’s dominance in the sector and US efforts to...
Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz. Across three events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Vladivostok...
Vietnam is often held up as proof of China’s underwhelming soft power in Southeast Asia: a millennium of resistance against Chinese domination, a...
Hearts across the globe are aching for communities along the Nepal-Tibet border. Late last month, a catastrophic flash flood ripped apart whole...
In the discussion on Hong Kong’s first ever five-year plan, much ink has been spilled on the merits of a planned economy. The most recent example of...
When Ajit Doval met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in June, New Delhi’s national security adviser called China and India “partners, not rivals”...
SpaceX discontinued its Global Roam service for existing customers as of Monday. The US company offered no specific reason beyond regulatory...
Third plenums are ordinarily the quiet part of Vietnam’s political calendar. Between its five-yearly congresses, the Communist Party of Vietnam...
In recent years, Thailand’s capital has discovered a surprising new attraction to add to its temples, shopping malls and street food: urban...
Cambodia has adopted a comprehensive approach to resolving its border dispute with Thailand, yet substantive progress will only occur once the two...
In the latest salvo of hostile rhetoric surrounding AI, Donald Trump told reporters last month that “America’s goal must be to dominate the...
Asean leaders discussed a proposal at their summit in May to develop a regional oil stockpile, prompted by the energy crisis amid the US-Israel war on...
In recent years, Southeast Asian governments have viewed the “China plus one” strategy as their best chance to escape the middle-income trap. As...
Online scams have become one of the world’s most pressing non-traditional security threats in recent years, with Southeast Asia emerging as the site...
By most economic measures, Vietnam had a spectacular 2025. The economy grew 8.02 per cent, its fastest pace since 2011, even as a 20 per cent US...
Southeast Asia has been thrust into the crosshairs of geopolitical competition these past few tumultuous years, necessitating choices about how to...
Southeast Asia imported more than half a trillion dollars in goods from China last year, leaving the region with a collective trade deficit of around...
On Monday, a Chinese submarine fired a long-range ballistic missile into international waters in the South Pacific. The nuclear-capable missile, which...
US President Donald Trump hailed the agreement with Iran as a historic breakthrough, announcing the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the end of...
As the fallout from the Iran war has renewed attention to the fragility of global supply chains, Singapore is emerging as a leading architect of new...
It has been 25 years since Indonesia’s Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal or JIL) was established in March 2001, just three years after...
As Asean foreign ministers prepare to meet in Manila from July 21-22, a quiet but significant shift is under way in the bloc’s approach to Myanmar....
Within a week of its release, Netflix’s new Korean drama Teach You a Lesson, directed by Hong Jong-chan, topped the platform’s global non-English...
The Trump administration’s indictment of former Cuban president Raul Castro and sanctions on his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel, suggest Washington...
In the contest for influence in Southeast Asia, the United States and China agree on one thing: the region is indispensable. Yet beneath the flurry of...
Chinese investors in Indonesia’s nickel industry recently sent a formal protest letter to President Prabowo Subianto. The message reflects their...
In Jakarta last month, many May Day demonstrations took place, but two stood out as reflections of the divisions among Indonesia’s trade unions. At...
Eyebrows were raised and pulses quickened in Malaysia when the Negeri Sembilan state government teetered last month. Like several other states, Negeri...
Mass media commonly portrays Southeast Asia as an exciting, adventure-fuelled and culturally rich region – if often an exoticised one – for...
A recent controversy surrounding a surau (prayer hall) in Malaysia appeared straightforward at first. A resident of Taman Seraya, Selangor state,...
Population ageing is fast becoming a global phenomenon. Even regions currently enjoying youthful demographics will eventually undergo demographic...
When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump concluded their Beijing summit, the most consequential outcome – for China at least – may prove not material, but...
Southeast Asia stands at the threshold of a nuclear renaissance. Vietnam and Russia signed an agreement in March for the Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power...
Western social science has made three metaphysical mistakes. The first was to assume that its laws and lessons were, like the physical sciences,...
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