Asia has been hit by over 20 earthquakes above a 2.5 magnitude in the last 24 hours, with four powerful ones in central and southeast Asia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

In geopolitics, noise is often mistaken for power. Nations that speak loudly are assumed to matter more. In reality, the most ...

A new regional assessment shows that Southeast Asia is a major net source of greenhouse gases, with land-use change and ...

More than most regions in the world, Southeast Asia has found itself in the middle of the intensifying U.S.-Chinese rivalry. Most major countries in other parts of Asia are already spoken for: ...

The United States has recently been touting its “convergence” with Asian partners. At the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin titled his remarks the ...

There is considerable uncertainty in Southeast Asia regarding what a resurgent China means for the region. Over the past four decades, the once impoverished communist country has emerged as the ...

Rising geopolitical tensions and capital-intensive manufacturing are driving Southeast Asia toward service-led industrialisation. Yet, skills shortages, uneven digital infrastructure, weak ...

Thailand is moving quickly to reshape the digital map of Southeast Asia, with a surge in data centre construction and artificial intelligence investment shifting the country from a long-standing data ...

While free trade has become politically infeasible in Washington, there are other ways to shore up the U.S. presence in one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. For decades, free trade has been a ...