David Lam
The Philippines has become the first government in the world to put its national budget on a blockchain. It offers a precedent for using the technology's transparency and immutability to enforce fiscal accountability.
Yichen Wang
Chinese waste-to-energy companies are expanding into Southeast Asia, where the need for such services has grown.
Yanuar Nugroho
Indonesia’s president is caught between a rock and a hard place fiscally and politically.
Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Paul Teng
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could push ASEAN’s farmers and food prices to the brink, but the region has options to ease some of the pressure.
Purawich Watanasukh
While the Thai public supports constitutional reform, the spirit is less willing within the ruling party.
Panarat Anamwathana|Eugene Mark
The newly formed Thai Digital Platform Trade Association (TDPA) is aligned with the commercial interests of its founding members. Thailand’s poorly protected platform workers will need to advocate for themselves.
Gauri Sasitharan
Gauri Sasitharan traces the evolution and decline of physical third places in Southeast Asia and the consequences for communities in the region.
Le Hong Hiep
Vietnam has limited room for manoeuvre on the energy front as supply tightens, but is proactively playing the hand it has been dealt.
Max Lane
Anti-government sentiment — especially online — among Indonesia’s youth has not been cowed by intimidation or arrest, but this resistance does not seem to have generated any moves toward more formal political organisation in real life.
Iim Halimatusa’diyah|Aptiani Nur Jannah
This Long Read shares the key findings of a survey examining the factors that predispose Indonesian Muslim undergraduates to engaging in a worldwide activist movement to boycott Israel.