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TOKYO -- The timing of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race to replace Prime Minister Fumio Kishida coincides with a busy diplomatic schedule, potentially impacting the ability of his successor to attend October's ASEAN summit and other key international meetings.
Doris Liew is an economist and assistant research manager at IDEAS Malaysia.
SINGAPORE -- As expectations of a U.S. interest rate cut grow, investors have started to turn to high-growth Southeast Asia in search of markets positioned to benefit from tamed inflation.
“Asean has, to some extent, increased Vietnam’s diplomatic room for manoeuvring when dealing with China,” said Huong Le Thu, deputy director of the International Crisis Group’s Asia programme. “Vietnam’s initial hope was to set its territorial disputes with China in the context of a multilateral dispute” between Beijing and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, she said.
During a recent Asean-Australia post-ministerial conference in Vientiane, Laos, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi highlighted the critical role partners such as Australia must play in easing the region’s food insecurity.
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA -- Southeast Asia's biggest technology stars are fighting to retain their sparkle in the eyes of fickle investors, as pressure mounts to demonstrate profitability now that trimming fat off their businesses appears insufficient.
Those experiences “will acquit her well in the foreign policy sphere if she ascends to the presidency in 2025, having already become familiar with a region that sits at the epicentre of the US-China rivalry,” said Jonathan Stromseth, a professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor is building a complete electric vehicle (EV) supply chain in Indonesia, a drive in line with the Southeast Asian nation’s policy of moving away from raw mineral exports and into more value-added production.