While the timing of the Australian attackers’ trip to the Philippines warrants scrutiny, the Islamic State’s presence in the ...

As unprecedented floods sweep Southeast Asia, millions suffer in silence while global attention lags, exposing dangerous ...

Asia has faced a wave of powerful and deadly storms in recent months, with countries such as Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

While there is some uncertainty about how exactly the region’s space sector may evolve, there is plenty of optimism, too.

Heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides in Southeast Asia HANOI, Vietnam -- The death toll in widespread flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Southeast Asia mounted on ...

(Photo above) Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s Commercial Organization, at the Microsoft AI Tour Kuala Lumpur on November 4, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read this in Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin ...

US President Donald Trump came to Southeast Asia wielding trade deals his office hailed as “historic.” The finer details, though, suggest a set of agreements that are uneven and with plenty of ...

Grand promises are standard fare for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The latest came after a meeting of the bloc’s economic ministers last month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

Trump’s abrupt 2025 tariff hikes have shaken Southeast Asia’s confidence in the United States, threatening regional supply chains and investment plans built on US market access. Countries like Vietnam ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...