Timor-Leste officially applied to join ASEAN in 2011, but it was only in 2022 that the group “agreed in principle” to accept ...

The IMF raised Asia’s 2025 growth forecast to 4.5%, up 0.6 points from April, citing resilient exports and AI-driven ...

Asia is full of billionaires. The Asia-Pacific region has over 1,000 self-made billionaires, together holding about $3.7 trillion in combined wealth, according to a December 2023 survey by UBS. Yet ...

Due to its cultural and political diversity, Southeast Asia lacks the ideational substructure on which to build an organization akin to the European Union. Earlier this month, Derek Grossman published ...

Built on the APO Productivity Database (APO-PDB) 2025, this edition aligns level comparisons with the 2021 International ...

Southeast Asia once had the highest rates of tobacco use, affecting three-quarters of men. But the region has cut smoking rates by more than a quarter. Europe is now the smokiest place on Earth.