Guest Column

Private by design and political by intent, China's security firms blur the line between protecting investments and expanding global influence.

A usurper and mass murderer, Min Aung Hlaing has no contribution to make to regional peace and prosperity. The BIMSTEC forum must kick him out, argues Miemie Winn Byrd.

The junta is compounding the people’s suffering by continuing airstrikes even as the death toll from Friday’s deadly earthquake continues to rise.

With the US pivoting towards isolationism, unilateralism and nationalism, Southeast Asian nations must stick together.

As countries rely more on loans, rather than grants, for development funding, they face growing risks to social protections, governance reforms and political freedoms.

The regional bloc and Myanmar’s neighboring states must stop legitimizing Min Aung Hlaing and his regime, and back an NUG-centered transition process that excludes them.

Bangkok needs to develop a policy on how to integrate those who fled conflict in Myanmar—some decades ago—into Thai society.

Myanmar resistance groups depend on Starlink to circumvent government controls. But this can also be their Achilles’ heel.

While brutally repressing its own innocent citizens, the junta shows no interest in prosecuting and jailing foreign scammers before sending them home.

The Arakan Army must now consolidate its unprecedented territorial gains in Rakhine State and contend with humanitarian, intercommunal and international challenges.