OCTOBER 13 — The deadly Houthi attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 10, 2026, followed by another attack the next day, marks a dangerous turning...

OCTOBER 12 — The repeated attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against Saudi Arabia have reached a dangerous threshold. They are no longer merely episodes in a prolonged regional...

OCTOBER 11 — Malaysian politics has entered a phase where political cooperation is increasingly determined by institutional survival, constitutional legitimacy and the capacity...

OCTOBER 11 — The conventional wisdom that China's economic slowdown necessarily signals its strategic decline deserves serious reconsideration. Indeed, the assumption that...

OCTOBER 9 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, popularly known as PMX, has demonstrated once again that political survival is not merely about commanding parliamentary...

OCTOBER 10 — South-east Asia has lived with transboundary haze for far too long. What was once regarded as an occasional environmental disturbance has become a recurring threat...

OCTOBER 9 — When the International Monetary Fund and World Bank gather in Bangkok for their Annual Meetings on October 12-18, recent flooding will pose a question central to...

OCTOBER 9 — Malaysia is entering a period of political uncertainty in which no political coalition can credibly claim to be a government-in-waiting.The 16th General Election...

OCTOBER 8 — Myanmar has reached a strategic impasse.Neither the military authorities in Naypyidaw nor the numerous armed resistance movements opposing them have demonstrated the...

OCTOBER 7 — There is a tendency in contemporary geopolitics to assume that the United States and China must necessarily approach artificial intelligence from opposite...

A bilateral AI hotline between Washington and Beijing will manage the superpower crises, but it won’t save Southeast Asia from the collateral damage of frontier tech.

OCTOBER 6 — The Houthis may be approaching a strategic threshold. Their repeated attacks against Saudi Arabia are no longer testing Riyadh alone. They are beginning to test the...

OCTOBER 3 — The so-called Blue Wave in Malaysian politics has been stopped. Even if Barisan Nasional (BN) wins Melaka hands down, that would not necessarily revive it. Indeed, a...

OCTOBER 2 — Geopolitics was once understood principally through maps. Mountains protected states. Oceans separated them. Rivers facilitated commerce. Strategic straits...

SEPTEMBER 30 — Myanmar has become one of Asean’s most difficult diplomatic challenges. More than five years after the military takeover of February 2021, violence continues,...

SEPTEMBER 30 — Flash floods are no longer exceptional events in Southeast Asia.They are becoming an increasingly familiar feature of urban life.The latest floods in Thailand...

SEPTEMBER 22 — The possibility that Yemen could become Saudi Arabia’s “Vietnam” as reported in an Opinion Editorial in Newsweek may sound provocative. Yet behind the...

SEPTEMBER 21 — Artificial intelligence has become a field in which terminology often races ahead of reality.Generative AI, agentic AI, artificial general intelligence and...

SEPTEMBER 20 — The decision of DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke to offer his resignation as Transport Minister should be understood for what it is: a serious political...

SEPTEMBER 19 — Malaysia has spent decades cultivating an image in Asean that rests on something more important than military strength or economic size. It has relied on...