ASEAN’s involvement in the South China Sea dispute began informally and incrementally. As Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, China and Taiwan firmed up their territorial claims, the dispute ...

Taiwan’s civil defence system, administered by the National Policy Agency (NPA) under the Ministry of the Interior, plays an ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which includes 10 ASEAN member states and five Free Trade Agreement ...

In October 2024, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology asked Apple and Google to block access to Temu, a Chinese e-commerce application. This move aims to protect local ...

Beijing's anxiety over the ‘internationalisation’ of the Taiwan issue underpins Taiwan Strait tensions, as demonstrated by large-scale military exercises by the People's Liberation Army in late 2024.

South Korea’s criminalisation of deepfake pornography consumption is a promising step against digital sex crimes, imposing stricter penalties for production, distribution and viewing. But the ...

Following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Japan's energy security is threatened by rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, where it sources over 95 per cent of its oil.