The New, and Not, of Terrorist Attacks in Indonesia
Ahmad Najib Burhani
New perpetrators and tactics, and persistent ideological battles, make fighting terrorism harder.

Ahmad Najib Burhani
New perpetrators and tactics, and persistent ideological battles, make fighting terrorism harder.
Ivan V. Small
Vietnam is one of ASEAN’s most promising car markets. To tap the growing potential in-country and across ASEAN, however, Hanoi will need to leverage on — and slalom around — a raft of regional free trade agreements.
Courtney T. Wittekind
Business leaders, foreign and local, have a big choice to make as Myanmar’s crisis deepens.
Francis E. Hutchinson|Kevin Zhang
An audio clip of a conversation between Anwar Ibrahim and Zahid Hamidi has given Malaysians a ringside seat into the shady backroom dealing between two of the nation’s prominent politicians. Genuine or not, the political interests of the two men have increasingly converged.
Lee Hwok-Aun
As the Malaysian economy switches into recovery mode, the country must ensure that growth benefits all households, especially those at the bottom.
Max Lane
The condemnation in Indonesia of the anti-religious nature of this latest terrorist attack is stronger and broader than before.
Daljit Singh
It is easy to find fault with the recently-declassified version of the United States’ strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific. The fact remains, however, that the US is making strategic adjustments to steel itself for years, if not decades, of strategic competition with China.
Dien Nguyen An Luong
Vietnam has effectively fanned the flames of online nationalism in its altercation with a Swedish fast-fashion retailer — and by extension, China. It has to be careful not to stoke the flames too far.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
A new movement of “fed-up” Thais has arisen, calling for a less ambitious goal — getting the Prime Minister to resign. This will be a tall order.
Paul Chambers
The Thai state’s numerous off-budget militias and paramilitaries should be terminated.