For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

Spotlight on East Asia, a region steeped in history and now helping to write the future of our world. We'll break down the ...

Asia, the world’s largest continent, is often divided into six distinct regions to better understand its vast geography, cultures, and economies. A new visualisation highlights these divisions: East ...

In East and Southeast Asia, democracy must be understood within the region’s unique political, historical and economic contexts. While liberal values are present, many citizens prioritise stability, ...

2024 was a grim year for conservation and its champions across Southeast Asia, as deforestation surged due to infrastructure, agriculture, logging and mining, threatening critical ecosystems and ...

The 2025 ISEAS State of Southeast Asia report shows that ASEAN elites are deeply concerned about geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, with the European Union now overtaking the ...

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...

Few parts of the global economy hold more obvious promise than South-East Asia. Multinational firms hoping to move manufacturing away from China are racing to establish supply chains in the region.

“In a troubled world, Asia is the healthiest region right now for higher education and for student mobility,” said sector expert and professor of higher education at the University of Oxford Simon ...