World leaders are traveling to Kuala Lumpur this week for the 47th ASEAN Summit and a series of related meetings, in what is shaping up to be the bloc’s most important gathering in years. The summit, ...

Diesel price caps lifted in two phases this month have driven a 6-baht-per-litre surge, with transport and industry facing ...

Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Southeast Asia finds itself in unfamiliar territory. On the surface, it has been a good year: the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur admitted Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member.

ASEAN faces significant humanitarian and coordination challenges if a crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait. More than 700,000 Southeast Asians live and work on the island and current evacuation planning ...