Author: Asia Sentinel

By: Kurniawan Arif Maspul For a head of state who has spent years as the West’s favorite pariah, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in early July, […]

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Baghdad, in a tenuous recovery and increased internal peace after the chaos of its post-2003 conflict years, is now trying to […]

By: Toh Han Shih As China’s rapacious miners increase their resource extraction in various countries to feed an economy that is the world’s biggest consumer […]

By: Khanh Vu Duc Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila this week— attending the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ […]

By: Ainur Rohmah Febrie: hot water What began as an investigation into a series of nationwide power outages has rapidly evolved into a rare confrontation […]

By: Kurniawan Arif Maspul The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has officially shifted from fragile diplomacy into an outbreak of direct confrontation and open war. […]

By: Tim Daiss For decades, nuclear power has occupied an uneasy place in Southeast Asia’s energy future. Governments periodically embraced it whenever electricity demand surged […]

By: B A Hamzah When strategic passages become instruments of coercion, everyone pays the price, as the world is relearning to its sorrow from Iran’s […]

By: Khanh Vu Duc High level defense meeting. Photo from VNA/VIET NAM NEWS In early June, General Uchikura Hiroaki, Japan’s joint staff chief, met in […]

By: Kalimullah Hassan As widely expected, Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional last weekend swept to a resounding victory in elections in the populous southern state of Johor […]

By: David Scott Mathieson Philippine Foreign Minister Theresa P. Lazaro The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) seems finally to have tired of the civil […]

By: Thai Scam Watch Photo courtesy of Amnesty International In April, Thai Police Lt. Gen. Jirabhop “Kong” Bhuridej, boss of the Thai government’s new “Anti […]

By: Anthony Spaeth “There’s a storm coming,” Police Superintendent Killian Tong is warned in City on Fire, Simon Elegant’s third novel, “and Hong Kong will […]