With East Timor finally poised to join the Asean family, its leaders are clear-eyed about the hard work ahead As the streets ...

During last month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, two themes stood out among the heads of state: President Donald Trump’s sharp criticism of the United Nations and the repeated calls by ...

A communique after the Communist Party’s Central Committee meeting, which runs Monday to Thursday, will indicate how Beijing ...

Great relationships evolve. Asymmetry gives way to estrangement. Estrangement gives way to engagement. If sustained, ...

Southeast Asia’s geography, oodles of islands and long coastlines strung along tropical latitudes, makes it vulnerable to ...

Central Asia is emerging as one of the most attractive destinations for financial flows from the Middle East. According to ...

Southeast Asia is part of the U.S.-China competition, with both powers vying for political, security and economic influence.

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Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

Genevieve Smith spent her summer compiling an application to study at a university in the Netherlands – a vague goal now solidified, she says, due to rising costs and political turmoil in the U.S. The ...

In Nepal, it was a politician’s son posing next to a Christmas tree made from designer shopping bags. In Indonesia, it was a lavish housing allowance for lawmakers amounting to 10 times the minimum ...

Political upheaval is driving a split in Southeast Asia’s financial landscape, as investors bet that the worst may finally be over in Thailand but only just getting started in Indonesia. Foreign ...