A novel Philippine Commission on Elections resolution targeting discriminatory campaign behaviour is an important step in ...

Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

Thailand's National Screening Mechanism has protected just seven refugees in 18 months but generated significant ...

Without addressing ingrained issues, elections risk becoming flashpoints in the region’s ongoing political struggle.

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa faces entrenched patriarchal forces as she fights for re-election.

Caught between the United States and China, Vietnam and Cambodia choose economic pragmatism over political frictions.

Australia has to face the possibility that the United States under Trump is part of the problem rather than the solution to ...

Trump’s trade talks face a tough finish as the ‘Liberation Day’ tariff deadline nears, emphasising his focus on auto tariffs, ...

Trump’s looming tariffs on Vietnamese goods threatens to upend the country's US export-heavy economy. To counter this, ...

Taiwan’s vulnerable position is only worsened by the growing misalignment between US Indo-Pacific strategic posturing and ...

While South Korea might have to offer a deal agreeable to Trump, Seoul has experience in finding compromise and defending ...

Instead of adopting short-term populist responses to the cost of living, Japan needs a mature and sensible approach to fiscal ...