While free trade has become politically infeasible in Washington, there are other ways to shore up the U.S. presence in one ...

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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE: Australia-based academic website East Asia Forum has been ordered to publish a correction notice on an article titled "Singapore’s new prime minister entangled in old politics ...

By 2040, the region is projected to be the fourth largest. Southeast Asia’s growth is predominantly export-driven. Its young, educated and skilled workforce is cost-efficient, making it a highly ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Sunday for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc's new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar ...