Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's visit to Australia in late April 2026 coincides with the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation. Both countries face an ...

Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto appears to have entered a post-Islamist arrangement, with no major Islamist party standing in open opposition. But this convergence rests on state coercion ...

India and Nepal are upgrading their bilateral partnership, with a landmark power trade agreement, cross-border transmission upgrades and petroleum pipeline expansion marking a new phase in the ...

ASEAN has long framed trade diversification as a strategic priority, but in practice its economic ties have become more regionally concentrated, with engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

At the pump, consumers across the world are reliving the kind of price shocks that defined the oil crises of the 1970s. Petrol prices that hovered around 180 cents per litre in early 2026 have surged ...

Takeo Otani is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Territory and History, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a doctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University, specialising in ...

Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), UOW and an officer in the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). His ...

Data Avicenna holds a Masters in Economic Policy from the Research School of Economics, The Australian National University. Prior to his Masters, he obtained his Bachelor of Economics from Universitas ...

Anthony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Relations and Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Metro Manila has long been notorious for its traffic jams. In 2023, the Philippine capital earned the unenviable distinction of having the world’s longest average travel time — 25.5 minutes just to ...

The concentration of rare earth magnet supply chains in China has exposed vulnerabilities in global high-tech and defence industries, amplified by Chinese export curbs imposed in response to US ...

In the aftermath of an East China Sea collision between a Chinese trawler and the Japanese coast guard in September 2010, tensions flared between Japan and China. The Chinese trawler captain was ...