Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

Other countries in South-East Asia will follow Thailand’s lead in 2022, up to a point. They will open only popular tourist hotspots to visitors and, even then, only to some nationalities.

From trying the delicious street food of Singapore to spotting wildlife in Borneo, the beguiling region has plenty to offer travellers.

Investment has grown almost 30-fold in the past decade, to nearly $40bn. South-East Asia’s ethnic-Chinese tycoons are still intermediaries in the region’s economic relationship with China.

New research finds China has surrendered its position as the largest single provider of development finance in South-East Asia in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Korea is struggling to contain wildfires ravaging the country’s southeast after more than two dozen blazes broke out over the weekend, killing four people and forcing thousands to evacuate.

The massive methamphetamine problem in the U.S. and Mexico is well documented. Now it appears East and Southeast Asia is seeing n unprecedented meth boom. In 2012 seizures of meth pills in the ...

The Greater Mekong region in South-East Asia is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world, and new species continue to be found there at an astonishing rate. Between 2021 and 2022 ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has capped a three-nation Southeast Asian tour in Cambodia by promoting Beijing’s reliability as the region faces U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs that ...

China’s ambitious plan to build a high-speed railway network through Southeast Asia is gaining speed. This is good news for tourists, but not everyone is ready to climb aboard.

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