China's electricity shipments to ASEAN climbed sharply in the first half of 2026 as Middle East tensions exposed Southeast ...

Southeast Asia faces a far more demanding security environment than the one ASEAN was designed to manage. Rivalry between major powers, tensions in the South China Sea, instability in post-coup ...

World leaders are traveling to Kuala Lumpur this week for the 47th ASEAN Summit and a series of related meetings, in what is shaping up to be the bloc’s most important gathering in years. The summit, ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Southeast Asia finds itself in unfamiliar territory. On the surface, it has been a good year: the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur admitted Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member.

Last month, Thailand decided to scrap a Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia (Opens in new window) concerning their maritime disputes, including a framework for a joint marine resources ...

Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

ASEAN faces significant humanitarian and coordination challenges if a crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait. More than 700,000 Southeast Asians live and work on the island and current evacuation planning ...