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China’s central Hubei province, where the COVID-19 virus first emerged late last year, is to lift curbs after two months under lockdown, local officials told the media. It was reported that the once ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should show some urgency regarding China’s latest actions in the South China Sea and hold a virtual meeting with member states to discuss this matter ...
Another news report has surfaced highlighting the dangerous town that Sihanoukville – once a sleepy, coastal tourist destination in Cambodia – has become. On Sunday, it was reported that a boy had ...
Post-coup violence has pushed the number of displaced people in Myanmar over one million for the first time, the United Nations (UN) has said, warning of "dire" conditions as the monsoon approaches ...
When Sam’s hard-up relatives needed money to buy a plot of land and start their own business several years ago, they turned to Sathapana Bank in Siem Reap to borrow about US$20,000. Now the Siem Reap ...
The election fever has intensified two days before the 9 May, 2022 election. Around 67.5 million qualified Filipino voters are excited to go to the polls to cast their votes and elect a new president, ...
The Indo-Pacific, which has multiple meanings from a country’s international strategic outlook to a wide area stretched from Indian to the Pacific Ocean, still retains its popularity among foreign ...
This file photo shows Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh taking part in the 39th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit held online on a live video conference in Brunei, in Hanoi.
This file photo shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte leaving after the annual state of the nation address at the House of Representatives in Manila on 26 July, 2021. (AFP Photo) In the area of ...
Everyone should count. Yet across the globe, 40 percent of all deaths and 25 percent of births of children under age five are unregistered - and therefore left uncounted in official statistics. When ...
According to a 2009 study by Aurel Croissant and Christoph Trinn – professors at the Heidelberg University in Germany, Southeast Asia by global comparison is a region particularly prone to conflicts.
Philippine politics has been predominantly characterised as an “elite democracy” dominated by elite political parties, personalities, and political clans who are not only “gurus” of political ...