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By: Ainur Rohmah Prabowo booed on May Day When President Prabowo Subianto stood before thousands of workers at Jakarta’s National Monument to mark May Day […]

By: John Elliott Time runs out for Banerjee The strength of India’s representative democracy, where voters produce surprise results that throw out long-established governments, has […]

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Photo by Anthony Kwan via AP Images At a moment when Washington is urging Beijing to step up as a global […]

By: Alexandre Quéru Albanese and Prabowo In February, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signed a Security Treaty which the two […]

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By: Khanh Vu Duc Fifty-one years after the April 30, 1975 fall of the Republic of Vietnam, the country is no longer defined primarily by […]

By: Toh Han Shih Hun Manet The United States may well have decided that cultivating ties with Cambodia, whose top leaders have been connected to […]

By: Khanh Vu Duc Naval power rarely changes course through headlines. It changes through personnel. The removal of US Navy Secretary John Phelan and the […]

The global economy doesn’t always shift in obvious ways. One minute it’s business as usual, the next, the rules start to feel different. Lately, those […]

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun Despite the apparent success of the US Air Force during six weeks of intense operations over Iran which saw much […]

By: Tim Daiss Japan’s recent offer of US$10 billion in loans to Southeast Asian countries to secure oil supplies comes at a moment of heightened […]

By: Tomoaki Takei Nikkei Asia photo Japan is suffering a nationwide shortage of surgeons in more than half of its teaching hospitals, even in major […]

By: Toh Han Shih China is attracting international users to its commodities pricing benchmarks, reducing although not replacing the US as the dominant arbiter of […]

By: Tita C. Valderama Facebook photo On April 12, a 53-year-old construction worker named Jhony Lanquino was trying to beat the 38-degree heat by shedding […]

By: Tita C. Valderama Facebook photo On April 12, a 53-year-old construction worker named Jhony Lanquino was trying to beat the 38-degree heat by shedding […]

By: Majid Maqbool Alex Vatanka is a leading expert on Iranian politics and US-Iran relations. Vatanka is a Senior Fellow and founding Director of the […]

By: Manuel L. Quezon III Moribund markets roared back to life in Southeast Asia with the news on April 7 of a US-Iran two-week ceasefire. […]

By: Xiaochen Su Build we must The 2021 bursting of the Chinese real estate bubble has generated a growing chorus of analyses comparing China’s economic […]

By: Ainur Rohmah In a moment of mounting global uncertainty marked by intensifying great-power rivalry, persistent conflicts in the Middle East, and the recalibration of […]

By: Toh Han Shih Unfinished Evergrande units Hui Ka Yan faces time in a Chinese prison, after pleading guilty to fraud, embezzlement and bribery in […]