Equatorial cyclones are rare. That’s one reason Cyclone Senyar has done so much damage in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Extreme heat is reshaping the region’s disaster landscape and driving the fastest growing climate-related hazards, according to the Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2025: Rising Heat, Rising Risk.

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Cambodia is also expected to endure more than 250 days per year above a 35°C heat index and up to 138 days above 41°C by the end of the century, placing large parts of the country in “dangerous” or ...

With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone ...

Faced with evolving cross-border crime dynamics, China and countries in Southeast Asia should enhance communication and cooperation to ensure regional prosperity and stability, experts said. They made ...

Malaysia’s bid to make durian its national fruit has once again stoked tensions over food with neighbors—but experts offer a ...

Once dismissed as a remote frontier, Central Asia has emerged as the beating heart of Eurasia. Regional cooperation has changed the game, transforming these landlocked states from bystanders in ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

FROM THE age of 13, Yang wanted to study in America. Visiting Boston, she envied students she saw lying on the grass reading; that was “how studying overseas should be”. After graduating from Cornell ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Tropical rainforests regulate the global climate and sustain the planet’s richest biodiversity. Yet, despite more than a decade of ...

South Korea is stepping up efforts to expand trade with Southwest Asia, targeting Bangladesh as a key partner, as Seoul seeks to reduce its heavy reliance on the United States and China, its top trade ...