Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. US President Donald Trump’s rollback of federal climate commitments has dismayed Pacific island countries on the climate frontline.

Henryk Szadziewski is Affiliate at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research interests include grounded and discourse analyses of Oceania’s globalism, ...

Over five days in July 2025, the Thai–Cambodian border erupted into its deadliest confrontation in more than a decade. At least 38 people were killed and 300,000 were displaced as artillery and air ...

Tommy SH Chai is a PhD Candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. He is interested in the historical place of Southeast Asia in world politics. Focusing ...

Dr Seemantani Sharma is Legal Manager (Intellectual Property & Regulatory) at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, where she advises on intellectual property (IP) and media law issues affecting ...

Coordinated intellectual property frameworks can power sustainable cooling across South and Southeast Asia, improving innovation, investment and accessibility.

Indonesia’s bold decentralisation experiment risks backsliding as more work needs to be done to promote local governments' fiscal autonomy.

Indonesia has the credibility and opportunity to be a global player as the political and economic centre of ASEAN, but that will require delivering on its domestic reform agenda ...

Indonesia’s path from discontent to growth depends on aligning domestic reform with global economic integration to build competitive industries that can create secure jobs.

The agriculture–tourism nexus offers an opportunity for Laos to broaden the benefits of connectivity gains from the construction of the Laos–China Railway.

Through bold reforms to its battery recycling industry, India can secure its supply of the minerals needed to power its clean energy transition.

Mahesh Ganguly is Assistant Lecturer and Research Fellow at IIT Bombay, currently collaborating with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun–a premier institute of ISRO on a project ...