ARTICLES

2 Jan 2026

Changing Diets Amid a Changing Climate

Paul Teng

Much attention has been paid to switching from meat-based diets to plant-based ones. Less attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on the quality and quantity of plant foods.

ASEAN Food Security

23 Dec 2025

Why ASEAN Must Hold the Line on Myanmar’s Election

Joanne Lin|Moe Thuzar

ASEAN needs to march to the tune of its own drummer and insist that Myanmar’s ruling regime toes the line, sham elections or not.

19 Dec 2025

ASEAN Business Entity: Integration at the Cost of Inclusion

Tham Siew Yean

The ABE initiative professes to promote regional economic integration via greater intra-ASEAN investments, but ASEAN should focus on attracting high-quality investment, enhancing industrial upgrading, and mitigating geopolitical risk.

ASEAN Economic Integration

19 Dec 2025

Reading ASEAN’s Sentiments in a Year of Crosswinds

Joanne Lin|Jasmine Yeo

Joanne Lin and Jasmine Yeo show how insights from two major regional surveys in 2025 capture the forces shaping ASEAN’s confidence in a year of shifting global winds.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Economic Development State of Southeast Asia Survey Sustainable Development

18 Dec 2025

ASEAN Power Grid: Gleaning Best Practices from Worst Cases

Mirza Sadaqat Huda

As Southeast Asia focuses on building the ASEAN Power Grid, there will be a higher chance of success if interconnections are designed to be modular and embedded within a broader regional integration agenda.

ASEAN Energy

11 Dec 2025

A New Deal for the Mekong

Anoulak Kittikhoun

Anoulak Kittikhoun argues that by treating the Mekong as an interconnected system rather than a patchwork of national interests, ASEAN can help transform the river into a model of regional cooperation, sustainability, and shared prosperity.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Mekong River Regional Cooperation

8 Dec 2025

COP30: Highlighting the Importance of the Agri-food and Forestry Sectors in Southeast Asia

Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Paul Teng

ASEAN member states can work together to strengthen their national agri-food sectors, building on the outcomes of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Agriculture ASEAN

1 Dec 2025

ASEAN’s Regional Ambitions for the Semiconductor Industry

George Tan|Maria Monica Wihardja

A new non-binding framework for relevant ASEAN member states to ramp up their semiconductor industries and supply chains has the potential to provide some relief against a darkening geopolitical outlook.

ASEAN Economic Integration Technology Trade

13 Nov 2025

Korea’s New ASEAN Policy: Pragmatic Partnership for a Shared Future

Lee Jaehyon|Ko Youngkyung

Lee Jaehyon and Ko Youngkyung elaborate how Korea’s new ASEAN policy under President Lee Jae-myung emphasises pragmatic, and mutually beneficial cooperation across security, economic, and people-to-people domains.

ASEAN ASEAN Summit ASEANFocus South Korea