In his first Western media interview since seizing power, Min Aung Hlaing makes his case for engagement as Myanmar’s civil war grinds on.

The Thai government’s “Siam Silica” strategy is well-designed but needs better alignment with the US.

Trump’s policies offer the region all the downsides of traditional U.S. policy with none of the benefits.

Trump’s policies offer the region all the downsides of traditional U.S. policy with none of the benefits.

A new report warns Australia and the Indo-Pacific face escalating threats to submarine cables, urging urgent action to improve monitoring and repair capabilities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read m...

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...

Australia and Vietnam are drawing closer not out of shared strategy but shared uncertainty about the great powers.

Written by Hunter Marston. The recent Russia-ASEAN Summit is only the latest example of a more diffuse and loosely organised world order, in which Washington plays a less central role, and its rivals ...

YouTube video by Asia Political Review

A judge ruled in favor of two Singaporean ministers in a closely watched defamation trial seen as a significant test of the country’s libel laws and their implications for press freedom.

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To see how Thailand is really doing, one needs to be outside the country. On a recent work trip to Hanoi, I found it inescapable that Thailand continues to fall behind even as its leaders pretend othe...

Despite the lifting of curfew five years after the military coup, party-goers still wait until dawn to sneak home.

A look at the US Corsair sea drone used in a first of its kind mission to rescue two helicopter crew shot down near the Strait of Hormuz.

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

The Dialogue’s starkest divide wasn’t between Washington and Beijing – it was between Washington and its own partners.

The Dialogue’s starkest divide wasn’t between Washington and Beijing – it was between Washington and its own partners.

The Vietnamese president is wrapping up a Southeast Asia tour aimed at shoring up regional security alliances.

A maintenance deal for C-130 Hercules aircraft may be routine in peacetime – in a US–China contingency, Indonesia’s legal exposure would change.

Beijing is benefitting from Washington’s inconsistent engagement and punitive economic statecraft in Southeast Asia

Sentiment is warming among some Southeast Asian nations toward easing Myanmar’s isolation five years after the overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi, with diplomats signaling a desire to bring the crisis-torn...

Southeast Asian leaders have adopted in an annual summit a contingency plan to mitigate the impact of the Iran war on their people and economies but acknowledged it will be difficult to enforce comple...

Written by Hunter Marston. The root of Myanmar’s crisis is political: as long as the military holds power, the country will be at war, and the economy will underperform.

New life for an old scheme and an eventful week for Pheu Thai

Touting AUKUS to Trump signals a new kind of Commonwealth soft power.

ကချင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဆုံ-မြစ်ညာ မြစ်ဝှမ်းရေအားလျှပ်စစ်စီမံကိန်းဆိုင်ရာ အထောက်အကူပြုရေးနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်‌ရေး ကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဒေသခံကော်မတီအဖွဲ့ဝင်များအနေဖြင့် ၁၄ ကြိမ်မြောက် ဒေသခံပြည်သူများအာ...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Southeast Asia aims to portray Beijing as a steady regional partner as the region grapples with the fallout from the war in Iran, tariffs and doubts over Washington...

Southeast Asia is watching the US-Israel conflict with Iran — and quietly drawing conclusions. Most countries have adopted a policy of non-interference,

Podcast Episode · Southeast Asia Radio · April 24 · 33m

Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international repu...

Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international repu...

Why Beijing’s success spells doom for everyone else.

Analysts say the new Major Defence Cooperation Partnership inked by both sides on Apr 13 is mainly about modernising the Indonesian armed forces, but it could still test Jakarta’s room to manoeuvre di...

After Vietnam's lawmakers unanimously elected Communist Party chief To Lam as the country's president, analysts are asking whether Vietnam aims to copy China's political model.

Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Indonesia’s “independent and active” doctrine is being tested by signs of drift.

As the general who led the coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s government sheds his uniform to take over as president, analysts tell Shweta Sharma what it means for a country ravaged by a civil war and an...

The Philippines government has ordered Facebook’s parent company to curb the spread of false, “panic-inducing” content on its platforms.