As the West throws up barriers to Chinese goods, they are flowing to emerging markets instead. In the past three years, the ...

SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia's startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021, with investors anticipating greater uncertainties ...

NEW DELHI: The South-East Asia Region including India, reported the highest number of cancers of lips and oral cavity, uterine cervix, and childhood cancers among all World Health Organisation ...

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s multilingual capabilities and open-source nature serve as an attractive alternative for users in Southeast Asia, but its true potential can only be realised if ...

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, welcomed 13.9 million foreign tourists in 2024, marking a 19% year-on-year increase and the highest figure over the past five years. However, this number ...

The problem is that Southeast Asia’s scamming epidemic is a parasitic outgrowth of structural features of the region’s political economy. Without a fundamental change in this regard or a ...

SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR/MANILA/JAKARTA – As US President Joe Biden hands over the keys to the White House to Donald Trump, observers say South-east Asia has emerged as a key winner over the past ...

During Donald Trump’s first presidency, U.S.-Southeast Asia relations were characterized by a predominantly transactional framework, prioritizing trade negotiations, security cooperation ...

In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened a workshop to examine the direction of the U.S.-Southeast Asia relationship from the present to 2030. The workshop ...

China regards Southeast Asia as its periphery and seeks to shape the region to reflect its preferences. Beijing aims to dominate the region by establishing a Sino-centric hierarchy and regional order.

Home to more than 650 million people, the 10 nations that make up Asean currently have a combined gross domestic product of US$3.6 trillion (S$4.9 trillion). This figure is projected to reach US$4 ...

SEVERAL financial markets in South-east Asia have developed sustainable financing classification systems with a special category for carbon-intensive businesses that are trying to go green. However, a ...