[Analytics] Vientiane Vision 2.0 puts Japan’s Asia security role into focus
One of the significant but under noticed developments at this year’s ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting-related…
Analytics
Analytical publications on politics, economics, culture and sports and other topics of the countries of the Asia Pacific region.
[Analytics] Are ASEAN’s unicorns overvalued?
Southeast Asia’s unicorns are now supposedly worth US$57 billion after the recent addition of four…
[Analytics] Indonesia’s fading democracy dream
When Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo triggered mass protests in September over his support for…
[Analytics] Coming challenges call for stronger Korea-ASEAN ties: S. Korea President
President Moon Jae-in contributed this article to The Korea Herald and Asia News Network member…
[Analytics] Understanding the informal economy of Pakistan
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been actively taking steps, especially in the recent…
[Analytics] Non-oil exports to be doubled: What Russia is selling now and what it wants to sell
Last week govt founded “Russian Export Center” (REC) gathered together about 3 thousand people from…
[Analytics] The Papua question for Jokowi’s second term
Recent protests and riots in Papua and West Papua have reinvigorated the question of how…
[Analytics] Gloomy outlook for Hong Kong’s economy
Hong Kong is caught in a perfect storm. Internally, peaceful protests against a controversial extradition…
[Analytics] Companies in Asia need to wake up to the new normal of climate change
These days, the reminders of how rapidly the world’s climate is changing come with depressing…
[Analytics] Will the damage done to Pakistan be repairable?
Famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 19th-century Russia and the Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera’s Czechoslovakia…
[Analytics] Muslims in Hong Kong
City provides a harmonious environment for Muslims to practise religion, leader says. But cultural differences…
[Analytics] Old faces in Indonesia’s new cabinet
Three days after being inaugurated as the president of Indonesia for a second five-year term,…