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 ...

Jeffrey Epstein, the late human trafficker and sex offender at the epicenter of a gigantic scandal reaching into the very top of US and British politics and royalty, suggested in 2012 that if Anwar ...

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 ...

Russia and China have recently intensified their respective Arctic convoy sailings along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Russia has put to sea its largest-ever shadow tanker convoy, with 20 vessels ...

Halal Certification officers in Singapore’s Islamic Religious Council routinely pressure restaurant owners into paying fees by using the threat of withdrawal of certificates of compliance, according ...

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 ...

According to US President Donald Trump on Oct. 14, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has agreed that the state-run CPC ...

There was much friendliness and mutual respect between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping during Xi’s recent visit to Washington. But beneath the bonhomie lie both ongoing ...

In Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto, political power and private wealth are finding a new point of convergence. Few businessmen illustrate that shift more clearly than Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad ...