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Indonesia made great strides in reforming its economy during the first term in office of President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi. The country’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing busin...
Worsening US-Iran tensions are raising fears among Asian countries of Tehran’s pivot to China and Russia, potentially sparking a second cold war, experts at a conference in Singapore said on Tuesday. ...
The Trump Organisation has not profited from its namesake’s position as leader of the free world and a decision to drop Chinese financing from an Indonesian theme park featuring a Trump hotel has abso...
When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits China later this month, he intends to raise with Chinese President Xi Jinping the contentious topic of Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea – an...
The West Bank. Gaza. Xinjiang. Modern-day concentration camps. Is the 12.5-million strong, Muslim-majority Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir next? Last week it was placed under curfew, its telecommuni...
Saad still has chubby, small hands like most children his age do. But his dark and penetrative eyes could belong to an adult. Though Saad is only 2 years old, the destruction caused by Syria’s deadly ...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in Malaysia late on Thursday for his first official visit since being re-elected in April, looking to tackle long-running border disputes and workers’ rights c...
Singapore on Friday staged a grander-than-usual National Day parade as the Lion City marked its 54th birthday alongside a “commemoration” of the 200th anniversary of the landing of the British colonia...
Since New Delhi’s announcement that Kashmir’s autonomy would be revoked, critics have suggested the region’s original Muslim-majority residents could be reduced to a minority, invoking comparisons to ...
The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte appears to have been caught flat-footed by a strongly worded statement from the Chinese government, which called on Manila to “punish” Philippine offsho...
Malaysia intends to set up a special, government-helmed channel to facilitate more investment from China, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said on Thursday. “We wish to see an increase in Chinese investm...
Defence officials say plans by Chinese investors to develop infrastructure and tourism facilities on three Philippine islands pose a security risk and undermine Manila’s position in its dispute with B...
On Monday, the Indian government unilaterally reshaped its special constitutional relationship with its northernmost province of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), under which that princely state had joined the I...
Rudyard Kipling said in his famous ballad: “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Whether we like it or not, the twain are meeting again, and creating and opening a new chap...
According to Brexit supporters, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is not about turning its back on the world. Rather, it is about staking out a new position in the global economy as a sov...
Geopolitical tremors were felt in the region when reports surfaced that East Timor’s state-owned energy company was considering a US$16 billion loan from China to develop an offshore oil and gas field...
When work began on East Timor’s US$490 million deep water port, things went with a bang – literally. The government waived its regulations on explosions so that Chinese contractors could blast their w...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will begin his first visit to Thailand on Thursday as part of a week-long tour of the Indo-Pacific that will include stops in Australia and Micronesia. His visit come...
The University of Queensland, which was the site of clashes between Hong Kong and pro-China demonstrators last week, is bracing for a protest set for Wednesday by students accusing it of bowing to Bei...
Behrouz Boochani is not an angry man. He tells me this on the phone from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where he has been detained by the Australian government for the past six years. “I should be ...