Southeast Asia

Big plans to relocate from Jakarta keep disappearing into nothing. Will this time be different?

Millions of Indonesians lack basic protections. The presidential contenders don’t seem to care.

The world’s third-largest democracy goes to the polls.

As Hanoi welcomes Trump, it shuts down a key reformist think tank.

With elections coming, the junta still fears the specter of Thaksin Shinawatra.

Despots and crooks are using China’s infrastructure project to stay in power—with Beijing's help.

He should confront Trump’s mistakes and put forward a positive agenda.

President Nguyen Phu Trong is drawing from Xi Jinping's playbook.

A year after the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya began, the United States is still dragging its feet.

The fiery Muslim teacher is wanted back home in India, but Malaysia won’t give him up.

Asian-American politics don't translate on screen into sensitivity to Singapore's real issues.

Dubious electoral endorsements are becoming normal for dictators worldwide.

Cambodian dissidents come under cyberattack in run-up to sham election.

For two centuries, countries have used low-wage labor to climb out of poverty. What will happen when robots take those jobs?

Rep. Eliot Engel’s sanctions legislation offers the right response to the Myanmar military’s campaign of murder and displacement.

Newsroom predators in foreign bureaus hurt their colleagues — and their stories.

Western liberals projected their own hopes onto "the Lady" — and then blamed her for not living up to them.

The 2017 Global Thinker hopes that the world will "keep watching the Philippines."

Why the United States can’t be complacent about undermining the remnants of the terrorist group.

As Thailand mourns its revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the public braces for an uncertain future.