Saigon Commercial Bank’s losses could cause the national treasury to dry up, as the government injects ‘special loans’ to keep the bank afloat.
Prabowo’s visits may indicate that influential countries recognise him as the next Indonesian president and lend him more legitimacy.
Asian firms worry that Iran-Israel tensions could spill over to the Strait of Hormuz – a vital oil corridor for Asia – and provide more fuel to oil prices.
The Gaza war resonated deeply among Southeast Asian respondents in a recent survey, given the significant proportion of Muslims in the region.
Japan was an early supporter of Aukus, viewing the alliance as a positive step for regional security that would counterbalance China’s heavy-handed influence.
The crisis reveals decades of official inertia in dealing with long-term resource planning and decrepit water infrastructure in Sabah.
TikTok challenges have encouraged trends such as Gen Z users believing they are ‘ageing like milk’ and changing up their image to fish for compliments.
Shifting gears on foreign relations brought by leadership change may bear on how a country’s commitment to deals is viewed by other disputants.
A new survey shows rising regional acceptance of the US-Japan-Australia-India grouping that’s been derided by Beijing as an anti-China ‘tool’. More tangible, visible projects will be needed to strengthen ties with Asean, however.
The ‘Allah’ socks scandal has escalated tensions among Malay Muslims, and raised fears among the ethic Chinese community of a more serious racial confrontation.
Comedian Ronny Chieng hit a raw nerve among Singapore’s netizens by calling out the city state’s smug attitudes and narrow world view.
Few members of Australia’s Asian diaspora have been nominated as Canberra’s 10 new Southeast Asian business champions to boost commercial ties with Asean.
If Chinese workers were to make less and buy more, other countries could grow faster and so buy more solar panels, electric vehicles, and other advanced manufactured goods from China.
Marking the event could serve as a platform to revive cultural exchanges, reminding both that for most of human history, they have lived in peace, writes Archishman Raju.
To shake up how finance is leveraged and directed to tackle priority issues, governments need to take the lead and set new sustainability standards and policy parameters – not leave it to the whims of financiers.
Online scam syndicates are growing exponentially as more investors fall for get-rich-quick traps amid surging prices of cryptocurrencies.
Australia and Japan can help Asean leverage Australian and the Quad’s resources to manage the more assertive aspects of China’s regional behaviour.
The practice of money politics in Indonesia is insidious, entrenched and not likely to go away any time soon, because it works, writes Burhanuddin Muhtadi.
Calls for several Chinese “new villages” to get Unesco status and a pork rib soup to be a heritage dish have sparked a cultural clash in Malaysia.
Thailand’s politicians and foreign leaders have preferred to turn to Thaksin Shinawatra, even though the 75-year-old is serving a jail term for corruption.
Previous searches in the Indian Ocean did not locate any wreckage, although several pieces of debris have washed up over the years.