Story Archive
2023-12-29
Autocrats from Myanmar to Vietnam showed they couldn’t control crime in 2023.
2023-12-27
They are uncomfortable with MFP and will try to undermine its leaders through legal cases.
2023-12-24
Nostalgia for good times is not the way to deal with an increasingly unstable and unpredictable world.
2023-12-15
In Indonesia, a 25-year-old democracy, the military is clawing its way back and an ex-special forces general is the electoral frontrunner.
2023-11-29
Little has impacted states’ security and prosperity more than a pandemic.
2023-11-27
The new top diplomats will refashion their ministries away from geopolitics towards foreign policies that put economics at the center.
2023-11-22
All three see a more prominent international role for the nation as economy is expected to grow.
2023-11-22
The ruling Awami League is determined to break the opposition’s resistance to a unilateral election.
2023-11-14
Under this system, each country would be part of the troika for two years, thereby ensuring more continuity across the years and giving each state another 12 months to hone its diplomatic skills.
2023-11-03
Malaysia is feeling the heat from the U.S. while the region’s dormant militant groups may be catalyzed.
2023-10-30
About 100,000 Laotians will have left in 2023, removing the disaffected and the unemployed in a boon for the regime.
2023-10-27
Srettha Thavisin will likely pick a non-military person to lead negotiations in the Deep South, analyst Don Pathan argues.
2023-10-16
Net rice importers and net exporters alike are wrestling with a surge in prices of the staple.
2023-10-13
U.S. rhetoric asserts that its renewed attention to island countries is everything but a response to China, analyst Shailendra Bahadur Singh writes.
2023-09-24
A poll in Southeast Asia shows it’s wrong to assume that it is only autocratic governments that stymie free speech.
