Survey: Asean Confidence in US Plummets Under Trump
A recent survey by the Singapore-based Asean Studies Centre (ASC) at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute…
Asean’s Navies The Poor Cousins At Budget Time
With Southeast Asian nations facing a deteriorating external security environment and increasing Chinese maritime assertiveness,…
RUU 355: Politics, Not Religion Fuelling Increasing Malaysia Islamisation
The February 18, 2017 rallies for and against the bill to amend the 1965 Criminal…
Growth of IS See’s Female Terrorist Numbers Rise in Indonesia
Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by kinship ties…
Challenges Ahead For Indonesia’s youth
Indonesia’s youth (pemuda) have always been valued as the vanguard of political change, taking a…
Inside The Brutal World of Myanmar’s Rohingya
In an Our World report titled Freedom and Fear in Myanmar veteran BBC correspondent Jonah Fisher…
Cambodia Eases Deeper Into China’s Defensive Embrace
Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against…
Yesterday’s ‘Genocide’ is Today’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’: UNOHCHR Slams Myanmar on Rohingya
The severity of the reported violations, against a backdrop of severe and longstanding persecution, appears…
Malaysia Must Act Firmly Over Kim Jong-nam Assassination
The murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged eldest brother of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim…
Why the RCEP is The Only Game in Town For Asean Following TPP Trumping
US President Donald Trump’s executive order to withdraw the United States from the 12-member Trans-Pacific…
Woman Caned in Aceh Sees Islamophobic British Tabloid Beating Dead Horse
British Tabloid the MailOnline is at it again, this time beating up an 14-month old…
Friendships Set to Be Tested as US Moves Closer to War in ‘China’
‘The United States (US) has invaded China’. This would certainly be the message that Chinese…
Expanding Wealth Gap Biggest Issue: Global Risk Report 2017
The increasing global inequality gap is the most important global trend facing the world in…
ADB Told to Focus on Infrastructure Development, Climate, Food Security
More than a third of respondents to a poll* conducted by the Asian Development Blog,…
With TPP Trumped, Finalisation of RCEP More Urgent as War Drums Beat
United States Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson’s recent provocative comments about China, while perhaps good…
Myanmar Risks Daesh Terrorism Wrath With Continuing Rohingya Abuse
On October 9, 2016, 200 armed attackers from the Aqa Mul Mujahidin — an organisation…