Malaysia’s quiet diplomacy in the South China Sea is more than hedging or positioning between two rival powers. At its core, the policy is intended to soften China’s assertiveness by ensuring that the ...

Xi Jinping has continued as the undisputed heavyweight leader of China after the Fifth Plenum, a closed-door meeting in ...

The recent visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India for talks with business leaders and External Affairs Minister ...

“The way the US and China are heading is increasingly zero-sum in terms of the competition. Both of them are putting the ...

The January 7 extradition to China of Vincent Chen Zhi, the mastermind behind Cambodian scam compounds, has removed embarrassment for the Chinese government, which has grown increasingly uneasy with ...

The background to Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, due to begin operations in January, is widely known among Asia watchers. The proposal had been worked on for decades as an important ...

The ambition of Indonesia's former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to install one of his sons as the country’s leader and create a family dynasty has hit a major roadblock with the emergence of ...

Twelve years after the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) designated the notorious FBME Bank Ltd as a “financial institution of primary money‑laundering concern” and the ...

Singapore’s squeaky-clean reputation as a major hub for the international commodities business is being tested by Trafigura Group, a scandal-tainted commodities giant whose annual revenue runs into ...

With dozens of the member countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) club pushing to renegotiate their loans from China, the BRI is rightly said to have become a project of debt collection rather ...

Singapore once again finds itself caught up in the politics of its ASEAN peers with recent revelations involving Capital Asia Investments (CAI), a hitherto-low profile Singaporean fund management ...

The Indonesian government is seizing up to 2 million hectares of seized illegal oil palm forest, some of it possibly from Malaysia’s biggest oil palm companies which for years have expanded across the ...