A citrus tree is a stunning holiday gift—but only if your recipient can handle the care. Here’s what to know before you buy.

Some 800,000 dried plant specimens from the 150-year-old Singapore Herbarium are being digitised using Picturae’s conveyor belt imaging system. Photojournalist Shintaro Tay takes a behind-the-scenes ...

Any Southeast Asian adventure, whether a shorter trip or a cross-country odyssey, will likely take in some of the region’s 25,000-plus islands. You’ll find plenty of coral-sand bays, seaside bars and ...

BANGKOK (AP) — It often starts with a text message asking if you are available on weekends, looking for a part-time job or you get a simple “hello” from an unknown number. Halfway across the world, a ...

US President Donald Trump came to Southeast Asia wielding trade deals his office hailed as “historic.” The finer details, though, suggest a set of agreements that are uneven and with plenty of ...

On October 19, 2025, China-linked hackers known as “Salt Typhoon” were detected attempting to infiltrate yet another European telecommunications provider, deploying sophisticated techniques and ...

Undersea cables have become central to Southeast Asia’s security calculus as the US–China rivalry spills onto the seabed. Disruptions in Europe and Taiwan show how cables can be weaponised, while ...

Grand promises are standard fare for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The latest came after a meeting of the bloc’s economic ministers last month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...