States across South and Southeast Asia struggle to preserve democratic governance and freedoms. From Indonesia and the Philippines to Bangladesh and Pakistan, populist leaders and dynastic ...

New Delhi should perhaps think about the possibility of reimagining its easternmost frontier beyond the limiting confines of ...

As China, India and others vie to be the Global South's champion, Southeast Asia's complexities challenge the ...

Intra-regional aid in Southeast Asia could become a viable alternative for states seeking to assert their independence and engage with sources outside the Global North. Southeast Asia receives more ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three ...

China’s growing sway in Southeast Asia hampers the United States’ ability to engage bilaterally and multilaterally in the region to strategic effect. The most obvious example is ASEAN’s cautious ...

Shopping in Singapore, looking down from the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, taking in the massive ancient temples in Cambodia’s ...

The Buddhist world in the beginning of the first millennium was dynamic and diverse, as the new faith spread out from South Asia to Southeast Asia, China, and beyond. Within South Asia it was centered ...

Also there are the emerging geo-energy stakes in the adjoining Central Asian region that hold promise for the prosperity of the energy-hungry growing economies of the Asia Pacific region. Besides, the ...

It then gradually takes over and becomes the inscriptional language par excellence in the whole of the South Asian subcontinent and much of Southeast Asia. For almost a thousand years Sanskrit ‘rules’ ...

The Bangkok and Southeast Asia correspondent is core to our English-language coverage of one of AFP's most dynamic regions, which takes in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.

The 11 countries of Southeast Asia include over 550 million people. Despite great linguistic and cultural diversity, the region is characterized by the relatively favorable position of women in ...