Category: South East Asia
Regardless of their political systems, all countries of the world must ensure the renewal of their leadership teams to be able to progress. This is the only way to bring in new blood and...
Vietnam’s response to COVID-19 has been formidable, with reportedly zero deaths and less than three hundred cases of COVID-19 nationwide. With a country of nearly ninety-six million people, Vietnam has set an example today...
Envisioning a canal that would connect the Gulf of Siam with the Andaman sea is no novelty. In the 17th century Thailand the issue was first assessed but later disposed of due to British...
John West argues that the Philippines now has great potential to become one of the success stories of the Asian Century, especially if it draws some lessons from its neighbours. The Philippines appears to...
…And then February 31 arrived, the clocks stopped and March was cancelled. Every day is dystopian in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen told the country that February 31 was the only date that COVID-19...
Understanding the Geography Sabah covers an area of 29,000 square miles in the northeast corner of the island of Borneo. Boundaries along generally remote mountainous terrain separate the state from its Malaysian sister-state of...
Former Malaysian interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be sworn in as the country’s next prime minister on Sunday after he secured support from a Malay nationalist party that sacked him in 2015. Here are...
Human rights is a space that often brings people together and then split them apart. The grounds for escalation result from a multitude of factors. From lack of measures taken by the government to...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has dialled back his criticism of India after it sparked a boycott of Malaysian palm oil, his chosen successor Anwar Ibrahim told Reuters on Thursday, urging New Delhi to...
The euphoria about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Indonesia and elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia (SEA) has been felt since 2017, particularly following the country’s participation in the BRI Summit in...