Vietnam faces Trump era with awkward trade surplus with the US
While the Vietnamese public watched the U.S. election with curiosity, the leadership in Hanoi probably looked at the results with trepidation. While Hanoi’s “bamboo diplomacy”...
Month : November 2024
Climate ‘flashpoint’ looms for Trump’s China-centric focus on Pacific: US analysts
Growing U.S. security and diplomatic ties with Pacific island nations are unlikely to slow even if American foreign policy undergoes a major shake-up during Donald...
Former Hun Sen adviser removed from top government post after fraud arrest
A former adviser to Senate President Hun Sen who was arrested at Phnom Penh International Airport in a multimillion dollar fraud case has been removed...
Exclusive: How Chinese nationalism is sending jitters through the Arctic
This story was reported with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Read their story here On an early morning in late July, a luxury expedition cruise ship,...
Malaysia objects to Vietnam’s South China Sea island building: media
Malaysia has protested over Vietnam’s island building in the South China Sea in a rare negative exchange between the neighbors, Reuters news agency cited Malaysian...
EXPLAINED: Thai holiday island at center of dispute with Cambodia over offshore gas
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia have for decades both claimed a 27,000 square kilometer (10,425 square mile) area of the Gulf of Thailand believed to...
US presidential election sparks curiosity in North Korea
North Korean state media has made no mention of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election but that hasn’t stopped residents – particularly traders and executives – from...
Awaiting refugee status, Myanmar nationals in Malaysia struggle, risk deportation
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Myanmar citizens who have fled to Malaysia to escape their country’s turmoil and repression have been in limbo...
Vietnamese fishermen in China’s detention for six months: think tank
Vietnamese fishermen have been in Chinese detention in the Paracel archipelago for more than six months, a Chinese think tank has reported, days after Vietnam...
Pacific push sees UN launch first nuclear war impact study in 35 years
The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of an independent scientific panel to report on the physical and societal consequences of nuclear...
