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Lucky Christ Nugroho is an official at Bank Indonesia, the central bank of Indonesia. He is currently serving as a Junior Economist at the Economic and Monetary Policy Department. He earned a bachelor ...

Growing use of economic sanctions by numerous countries today has increased the significance of WTO security exceptions, which allow members to retain otherwise WTO-inconsistent measures — such as ...

The second Trump administration has transformed US foreign policy, with immediate implications for economic and security ties with Asia and long-term implications for regional and global order. The ...

The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen water flows recurringly decline and processes of saltwater intrusion accelerating in the ...

The Philippines has lost an estimated 42.3–118.5 billion Philippine pesos (US$713 million–2 billion) a year from flood control corruption since 2023. The scale of illegal wealth accrued by contractors ...

Pink globalisation, the spread of cute goods from Japan to other parts of the industrial world, has been a stronghold of consumption in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly with Hello ...

The concept of ASEAN Centrality has been questioned due to increasing rivalry between the United States and China. Despite its limitations — particularly in conflict resolution — ASEAN Centrality ...

The new normal for any ASEAN Chair is the expectation of having to manage a crisis, if not multiple crises, amid an increasingly hostile geopolitical environment. The Myanmar conflict and South China ...

Underlying China’s turn towards digital governance practices is the notion of a scientific outlook on development (kexue fazhan guan), which presumes that digital tools can resolve social challenges ...