On 16 September, the Federation of Malaysia – a country widely regarded as a Southeast Asia success story – will celebrate its 60th anniversary. While neighbours such as Indonesia, Thailand and the ...

The killing of an American pilot in Papua was not random – the rebels fear the Catholic Church is winning the population. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to Events for ...

The Southeast Asia Aid Map — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2023 — is a comprehensive database tracking official development finance (ODF) flows in Southeast Asia. This 2024 Key Findings report ...

Donald R Rothwell is Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, ANU and one of Australia’s leading experts in International Law with specific focus on the law of the sea, law of the ...

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Denise Fisher is a Visiting Fellow at ANU's Centre for European Studies. Denise was an Australian diplomat for thirty years, serving in Australian diplomatic missions as a political and economic ...

Dr Keiran Hardy is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. Sovereign citizens are often dismissed as a collection of conspiratorial eccentrics ...

An assessment of the size and shape of the PLA's growing capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. Special-operation soldiers aboard the missile frigate Yueyang, a Type 054A (Jiangkai-II class) multi-role ...

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Filipino voters go to the polls to choose who will govern them but not necessarily how they will be governed. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to Events for advance notice of ...

In early January this year, US military bases in Okinawa, Japan, were again the subject of criticism after the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was detected among US base personnel and subsequently spread ...

A breakthrough in negotiations might finally see progress towards settling the long-running question of New Caledonia’s political status. The Bougival Accord, signed on 12 July at a meeting convened ...