Plastic waste is clogging up the waterways of Southeast Asia. In the last 35 years, the use of plastics in the region has multiplied nearly ninefold. This month, regional leaders tried to take a step ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Southeast Asia finds itself in unfamiliar territory. On the surface, it has been a good year: the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur admitted Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member.

Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

World leaders are traveling to Kuala Lumpur this week for the 47th ASEAN Summit and a series of related meetings, in what is shaping up to be the bloc’s most important gathering in years. The summit, ...