And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing’s control.

NEW DELHI – The Philippines and its allies are trying to expand the Squad grouping of nations to include India and South Korea to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region, the Philippines ...

Chinese tea chain Chagee has once again landed in hot water with Malaysia’s censorious consumers after its mobile app displayed a map with Beijing ... claim over the South China Sea, sparking ...

The news for some of Southeast Asia’s big stock exchanges has not been great lately. Since mid-September 2024, the Jakarta composite index has declined by around 18 percent. On March 18 ...

Such statements were widely welcomed in South East Asia, where the emerging leadership wanted to follow a similar path and saw India as an economic example. Their concerns can be revisited today ...

You see in some of Kyoko's washi art, the paper is full of past presences. Old paper is more beautiful — it retains traces and stories. Both Karen and I love the line: "A blank page is never empty." ...

Their leaders are worried that the more prosperous south may lose parliamentary seats in the future, a "punishment" for having fewer children and generating more wealth. Wealthier southern states ...

But a Chinese takeover of Taiwan would end the Pax Americana in Asia and allow Beijing to dominate shipping lanes vital to the economies of Japan and South Korea. So what should they do?

Singapore's next parliament will also have 97 seats, up from the current 93. On the electoral map changes, Dr Janil said: "What we do know and what we can see, it's about the population growth.

Singapore will have five new Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and six new Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) in the 2025 General Election, part of sweeping changes laid out in the ...

Trump has threatened to impose "all-out pressure" on South Korea, Choi said, citing his comments to the U.S. Congress where he singled out the key U.S. Asia ally for applying high tariffs.

Up to 24 counties will be impacted as the South of England is blanketed in snow next week, according to weather maps. Snow will sweep in from the South and work its way northward throughout ...