ASEAN conflict and cohesion, the geoeconomic squeeze, and climate resilience. Can the bloc survive the increased pressure?

ASEAN must move beyond its compartmentalised approach to policymaking to respond to the increasingly interlinked areas of economics and security in a shifting global order. Maintaining ASEAN ...

For more than a decade, a cornerstone of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) policy has been an incremental push to establish the ASEAN Community. Based on three interconnected pillars ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Asean is on course to sign a digital economy pact in 2026, which aims to boost cross-border digital trade and services. Talks on the Asean Digital Economy Framework Agreement (Defa) ...

The Trump tariff shock has profoundly disrupted East Asia’s economic landscape, presenting mounting challenges for the region’s export-driven economies. The unjustified tariffs imposed on ASEAN, China ...

Southeast Asia has undergone a remarkable economic transformation over the past few decades, becoming a key node in global manufacturing supply chains. Countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, ...

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr receiving the Asean chairmanship gavel from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the closing ceremony of the 47th Asean Summit and Related Summits in Kuala Lumpur, ...

Analysts call for continuity on Myanmar, the South China Sea, and efforts to turn economic potential into real gains for the region and its people. As the Philippines takes over the ASEAN chairmanship ...