While free trade has become politically infeasible in Washington, there are other ways to shore up the U.S. presence in one ...

The digital payment market in Asia is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2025, significantly increasing Sea Limited’s ...

The WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR), with its high population density, is recognised by epidemiologists as a critical ...

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s multilingual capabilities and open-source nature serve as an attractive alternative for users in Southeast Asia, but its true potential can only be realised if ...

NEW DELHI: The South-East Asia Region including India, reported the highest number of cancers of lips and oral cavity, uterine cervix, and childhood cancers among all World Health Organisation ...

SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia's startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021, with investors anticipating greater uncertainties ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 islands). Because ...

In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened a workshop to examine the direction of the U.S.-Southeast Asia relationship from the present to 2030. The workshop ...

During Donald Trump’s first presidency, U.S.-Southeast Asia relations were characterized by a predominantly transactional framework, prioritizing trade negotiations, security cooperation ...

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, welcomed 13.9 million foreign tourists in 2024, marking a 19% year-on-year increase and the highest figure over the past five years. However, this number ...

SINGAPORE -- When Singapore's Marina Bay Sands (MBS) integrated resort went almost completely dark during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the absence of guests in the three gleaming towers, with ...

China regards Southeast Asia as its periphery and seeks to shape the region to reflect its preferences. Beijing aims to dominate the region by establishing a Sino-centric hierarchy and regional order.