As we begin the New Year, East Asia Forum would like to acknowledge and pay tribute to the legacy it owes to significant ...

Sri Lanka appeared on track to recover from the economic fallout of its 2022 external debt default until Cyclone Ditwah ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

Prioritising public health in intellectual property rights is what the doctor ordered for low- and middle-income countries to ...

Indonesia’s energy transition will depend on how effectively the state reshapes the role of its state-owned electricity ...

East Asia’s stablecoins must overcome the same network effects that have kept Europe stuck on the margins of a US ...

India and Indonesia’s refusal to ratify the WTO’s fisheries subsidies agreement is weakening efforts to curb overfishing and ...

Central Asia and the Caucasus saw solid growth, new transport corridors and multi-vector diplomacy in 2025, even as conflicts ...

The Philippines should use its ASEAN chairmanship to promote regional cooperation in undersea cable security amid ...

Graft and elite capture are choking Pakistan’s growth and only civic renewal with real reform of taxes, procurement, SOEs and ...

While Indonesia's headline economic numbers appear stable, deeper structural problems still remain unaddressed ...

For the Mekong region, 2025 brought political, economic and environmental pressures, leaving a daunting agenda for future ...