A retreat to Nasi Lemak
'A retreat to Nasi Lemak" is defined as an economic phenomenon, which sees someone taking to making Nasi Lemak after losing his job.
OPINION
Ramping up the likeability factor
Thanks to the Internet, Youtube and video streaming sites, China's creative content is very much available to the rest of the world and its soft power is spreading.
Why are we bullied?
Lower-level officials are parroting the worst aspects of Duterismo and that's worrying.
Rumour-mongers going on overdrive
Tsunami of fake news will not do anyone any good.
Taliban resurgence
As the discourse on the pullout of US-led Nato forces from Afghanistan continues, fears of a potentially mortal Taliban resurgence in the resultant vacuum are dangerously real.…
EU, the preacher, is in love with ASEAN yet again
The Group of Seven leaders often use sophisticated words like "multilateralism" and "science" to justify their political and military presence in the Asia-Pacific region - to…
A booster shot for US vaccine diplomacy
America and fellow G-7 countries are ramping up supplies, catching up with China in providing vaccines to poorer countries after a slow start.
Pandemic’s biggest lesson — restructure health sector to handle current, future pandemics
Bangladesh is in the throes of the second wave of coronavirus infections and quick reforms in the country's health sector are a must
Asean, EU and the swing-state perception
Geopolitical circumstances and interests are pushing the two closer together
Questioning ASEAN secretary-general’s mission to Myanmar
With no end in sight for the Myanmar crisis, it is about time Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi should encourage President Joko Widodo to take over Asean's mission to help the…