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David HuttThe Diplomat |
Cutting working hours may offer a paradoxical solution to the region's coming demographic crunch.
Instead of instituting a progressive monoculture, the region's governments could benefit from a temporal "crop rotation" of public rights and...
The alleged online scamming kingpin, now in custody in China, was once feted by Phnom Penh's foreign business elite.
Despite the superficial appeal of the Malaysian leader's proposal, term limits aren’t really the political cure that they purport to be.
Aside from Singapore, which has executed 17 people so far this year, Southeast Asia is retreating from the death penalty.
A humble proposal that could encourage more electoral experimentation and produce a more diverse slate of representatives.
Increase the number of teachers, by all means, but don’t predetermine what they’re going to do.
Very often, governments in the region leap to a solution before accurately defining what problem they are trying to solve.
Using social embarrassment to change behavior is not unusual, but the proposed scheme is unlikely to improve civil servants' efficiency.
As in the natural world, signaling – of wealth or virtue – plays an important role in political and social life.
In Southeast Asia, there is now a growing realization that governments don’t have nearly enough foreign aid or investment to fund key social programs.
As a technology, large language models have been ruthless in highlighting the waste and weaknesses of the "knowledge industries."
While nuclear energy is the best means of avoiding climate catastrophe, many remain irrationally terrified of its risks.
Because of rampant speculation in real estate, home ownership is now a fleeting dream for many Vietnamese.
Facing a demographic cliff, the region's governments need to get creative in how they tackle the issue of tax reform.
There are better ways of encouraging the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
Anecdotal information may say more about the state of the economy than the oracle of gross domestic product.
A modest (and admittedly outlandish) proposal for solving the ongoing border crisis.
The "digital wallet" stimulus scheme might have stood a better chance if the money was given out as a gift card.
Since its founding, ASEAN has built an entire edifice of regional diplomacy on an incoherent principle.
Is the region's obsession with infrastructure mega-projects economically misplaced?
It is hard to see what Cambodia's former leader gained by openly violating the regional norm against mutual non-interference.
By leaking a recording of a phone call with Thailand's prime minister, Hun Sen has thrown an incendiary into Thai domestic politics.
Phnom Penh's threat to internationalize the dispute could give it a bargaining chip during bilateral negotiations.
Recent months have seen an awakening of long-dormant maritime and territorial disputes between the two nations.
Two recent rulings have established important safeguards for online speech, but there is a sting in the tail.
Due to its cultural and political diversity, Southeast Asia lacks the ideational substructure on which to build an organization akin to the European...
Australia and Singapore, two of the 20-odd nations with compulsory voting, are set to go to the polls this weekend.
The purpose of an opinion poll should be to discern not just what the public thinks but also what it understands.
Conducted around the time of President Donald Trump's inauguration, the survey has little to say about the turmoil now engulfing the globe.
Since his arrest, the ex-leader, his family, and his supporters have presented a spectacle of unrepentant self-pity.
The wall will probably never be built. But it may prod the Cambodian authorities into taking belated action against the country's online scam...
Would any of the region's governments lift a finger to maintain peace on behalf of a neighbor?
More undergraduates from one of the world’s five remaining communist states were opposed to the redistribution of wealth through taxes than their...
For the pathological pacifist who now occupies the Oval Office, nothing is off the table.
The Cambodian government still hasn't offered a convincing explanation for why it is outlawing the "denial" of Khmer Rouge atrocities.
The Pew Research Center's recent survey on "religious nationalism" throws up as many questions as it answers.
Ahead of mid-term elections in May, Philippine politics seems destined to be consumed by the Marcos-Duterte feud.
The Singaporean government wants to intervene in the bank accounts of its own citizens but not in the scam industries of its neighbors.
It’s disappointing when a journalist’s general knowledge extends a decade at most. A few weeks ago, a reporter from the Phnom Penh Post suggested...
In anticipation of Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration in October, an opinion piece appeared in Nikkei Asia claiming that he would be one of...
Perhaps my memory is failing, but was there a time when Southeast Asia was so threatened by organized crime yet so helpless to respond? The region...
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