South-East Asia’s proximity to China and other large economies (such as Australia, Japan and India) makes it an ideal base to ...

T hE participation rate of women in the labour markets of South Asia is in general woefully low. The region’s garment ...

South Korea also agreed to invest $350 billion in the United States in projects selected by Trump and to purchase energy ...

President Trump announced deals with Japan, Philippines and Indonesia, but many other countries have yet to clinch agreements ...

Seoul’s development diplomacy faces a crisis of identity as anti-corruption probes collide with cultural soft power ambitions.

Ahead of crucial global plastic treaty talks in Geneva, experts highlighted Asia-Pacific's pivotal role in tackling plastic ...

Some countries lie on more than one continent. These are called transcontinental countries. A transcontinental country has land that stretches across two or more continents. This can happen due to ...

South Africa is happy to be part of BRICS, and sees this as an anchor for countries of the Global South to cooperate even more strongly, particularly in the face of rising protectionism and ...

The China-India tussle for influence in South Asia can be expected to intensify should Pakistan and China’s plans for setting up a new regional organization materialize. According to a report in ...

All of this indicates an important inflection point in South Asia. “India is no longer losing—and may even be winning—its strategic competition with China in the region,” the author stated.

As such, the alignment of Chinese and Pakistani interests in developing hydro projects can pose a further challenge to the stability of South Asia’s water-sharing agreements, especially in the ...