Xi summit may not promise major breakthroughs, but normalising leader-level dialogue and avoiding crisis is success enough ...

Beijing’s approach of principled pragmatism has pulled China–US relations back from the brink of an all-out tariff war and into a period of relative stability ...

To remain relevant in Southeast Asia, Japan must pursue middle power diplomacy that respects ASEAN’s strategic autonomy.

Myanmar’s crackdown on hundi networks hurts households, humanitarian flows and ASEAN’s wider regional interests.

The low-budget dialect film Dear You is both an unexpected hit in global box offices and a flashpoint for wider debates ...

Governments across Asia are increasingly allocating public capital to industrial capacity, yet the institutional capabilities required to manage these investments are often overlooked ...

Vietnam’s US$4 billion Ca Mau–Hon Khoai bridge and seaport project is presented as an overdue development initiative for one of the country’s poorest regions, but it may also help Hanoi preserve its ...

Japan’s price mechanism is working again, driven by external inflationary pressures, rising household expectations and severe labour shortages — a shift Abenomics failed to deliver despite years of ...

The success of the new GUIDE framework will depend on members converting voluntary exchanges into specific national measures and jointly supported activities.

The United States and European Union have played a leading role in strengthening global efforts to address forced labour in supply chains, but Asia’s deep involvement in critical mineral supply chains ...

China’s new ‘Artificial Intelligence + Education’ Action Plan seeks systemic reform of higher education, treating AI as a way to improve graduate quality amid a weakening labour market. A national ...