The Philippines is pinning high hopes on its participation in Pax Silica. Investment commitments are promising, but the ...

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains a major factor in Myanmar politics. Before the 2021 coup, her importance rested on her ...

Hanoi views the Ban Keun facility as adding to the circle of China’s potential military pressure. It is banking on closer ties with Cambodia and Laos to secure its border and prevent isolation.

Philippine outsourcing employment continues to grow despite fears of widespread AI-driven job losses. The challenge is to preserve entry-level opportunities and prepare workers before weaker hiring ...

It is not a given that the Tatmadaw will gain the upper hand in the civil conflict in Myanmar. A new consensus should include the resistance coalition. Regional governments, including key ASEAN ...

ASEAN has ambitious plans to implement a regional power grid. But there is a critical need to improve technical and industrial capacity in subsea power systems.

Zha Daojiong argues that the future of the ASEAN-China dialogue partnership will depend not only on deepening economic integration, but also on managing industrial competition, addressing economic ...

The Communist Party of Vietnam must ensure that Hanoi’s redevelopment remains socially and politically inclusive, addressing community concerns that they are bearing the costs without sharing in ...

The Code of Conduct (COC) negotiations between ASEAN and China have reached an impasse, hindered by legal ambiguities, strategic divergences, and ASEAN’s internal divisions. ASEAN must move away from ...

The prognosis for tensions in the South China Sea dispute this year is pretty straightforward: what has been and is will continue to be so, and perhaps even worse. In the new year, the Trump ...

Malaysia’s position on the South China Sea dispute vis-à-vis China has remained remarkably consistent. According to a recent spate of articles, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has recalibrated ...