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What Trump’s visit really meant for ASEAN

by David A Merkel October 30, 2025November 4, 2025

What To Lam was trying to say and portray in London

by Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh October 30, 2025November 4, 2025

Needed: China-US tie-up against ‘pig-butchering’ scams, fentanyl

by Charles Morrison October 30, 2025November 1, 2025

To Lam openly legalizing police state rule in Vietnam

by Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh October 29, 2025November 1, 2025

ASEAN’s rare earths promise needs unity and resolve

by Phar Kim Beng and Luthfy Hamzah October 25, 2025October 29, 2025

What Trump needs to understand about ASEAN

by Marcus Loh October 25, 2025October 29, 2025

Lula, Prabowo invest big in new era of South-South solidarity

by Kurniawan Arif Maspul October 25, 2025October 29, 2025

Duterte fails in bid to block ICC jurisdiction over his case

by Jason Gutierrez October 24, 2025October 28, 2025

Indonesia's rupiah has lost more than 10% of its value to the dollar so far this year. Image: iStock/Getty Images

Bank Indonesia losing sight of its guardian role

by Pristanto Silalahi October 23, 2025October 28, 2025

GIC vs NIO: a wake-up call on Chinese company reporting

by Sean Tan October 21, 2025October 27, 2025

Power grid offers a real shot at ASEAN integration

by Ronny P Sasmita October 20, 2025October 23, 2025

Taking the measure of Prabowo’s tilt toward China

by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama October 20, 2025October 23, 2025

To become a dragon, Vietnam can’t afford to idolize tech

by Nguyen N Hanh October 18, 2025October 22, 2025

DOJ seizes $15 billion bitcoin in SE Asia crypto scam bust

by Chainalysis Team October 15, 2025October 20, 2025

US wades deeper into rising Philippine-China sea tussle

by Jason Gutierrez October 14, 2025October 17, 2025

Cracked truce: Thailand-Cambodia border fight far from over

by Richard S Ehrlich October 11, 2025October 16, 2025

Workers upload LPG (liquid petroleum gas) canisters before sending to customers in PT Pertamina LPG filling station in Jakarta January 27, 2011. PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), Indonesia's biggest gas distributor, said on Thursday a planned floating LNG regasification terminal in northern Sumatra will have a capacity of 1.5 to 2 million tonnes a year. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTXX55J

Why oil-rich Indonesia imports most of its fuel

by Akhmad Hanan October 6, 2025October 10, 2025

Manila vows to block China’s militarization of Scarborough Shoal

by Jason Gutierrez October 3, 2025October 8, 2025

World

Palestine, Myanmar on parallel paths of forever wars

by Michael Vatikiotis September 29, 2025October 2, 2025

Indonesia-Malaysia chart a course for calming disputed seas

by AD Agung Sulistyo September 19, 2025September 19, 2025

Indonesia’s ill-timed return to the financial brink

by William Pesek September 19, 2025September 25, 2025

A data breach of epic proportions in Vietnam

by Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh September 17, 2025September 22, 2025

Will Prabowo leverage riots to cement his authoritarian grip?

by Tim Lindsey September 3, 2025September 8, 2025

Philippines, Australia draw closer with a joint eye on China

by Jason Gutierrez August 22, 2025August 27, 2025

EU bluffing it will protect the Philippines from China

by Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa August 21, 2025August 26, 2025

Malaysia’s bow to Moscow looking like a Faustian pact

by Saahil Menon August 19, 2025August 22, 2025

A quiet path to peace in the South China Sea

by Phar Kim Beng August 18, 2025August 21, 2025

To Lam consolidating hard, fast and forceful rule in Vietnam

by Minh Vien and Dam Vinh Hang August 15, 2025August 20, 2025

China’s clumsy sea aggression marks escalation with Philippines

by Jason Gutierrez August 12, 2025August 16, 2025

US tariffs won’t stop China’s long game in SE Asia

by Bilal Habib Qazi August 12, 2025August 15, 2025