Unless checked, the problem will exacerbate problems for several southeast Asian countries.
The diplomatic spaces in which Aung San Suu Kyi, the state counselor of Myanmar, can move without serious challenge are growing increasingly narrow.
Typhoon Mangkhut, which swept through the Philippines, Hong Kong and Southern China over the weekend will go down on history as one of the regions most powerful storms in years.
Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act which was used to prosecute and send two Reuters reporters to prison for seven years is not the only law that has been weaponized against the press.
This isn’t the first time the Prime Minister has used the tools of arrest and release in tandem to quell pressures from home and abroad.
Earthquakes have shaken Indonesian islands, floodwaters have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and unseasonal cyclones have battered coastlines around the region.
The prime minister has been notably outspoken in his criticism of China-backed infrastructure projects and Beijing’s involvement in the South China Sea.
Concerns over US tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum sent destabilizing ripples across the region.
The former prime minister was served with new charges on Wednesday—adding three counts of money laundering to his growing list of alleged transgressions.
Will the new legislation have the power to bring peace to a region choked by decades of deadly separatist conflict.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad says he wants to renegotiate the water agreement that has been one of the most acrimonious facets of the relationship between the two countries since they went their separate ways in 1965.
Hun Sen’s electoral victory was marred by controversy but the win signals closer ties between Cambodia and China.