On 5 March, at this year's 14th National People's Congress, China announced its defense budget for 2025. The latest figure rises 7.2% year on year. Interestingly, Beijing maintained the growth rate of ...

Indonesia and Vietnam agreed on Monday to upgrade ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership as the Southeast Asian allies ...

The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam’s Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are dying. The waters are eerily devoid of fish. The bounty ...

First of Two Parts PRESIDENT Marcos and his Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro should suspend their diatribes against the ...

As I sit writing, Southeast Asia is also looking destined for more instability and less peace. The Myanmar civil war is well ...

Canada and the Philippines, both vocal critics of China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea, have ...

China’s top foreign affairs official, Wang Yi, cast his country as a force for peace and order even as Beijing provokes its ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Commerce between the two sides has rebounded, rising 10% to U.S. $17 billion in the January to September 2024 period.

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal ...

The Philippine defense secretary says his country and its allies would take measures to counter any attempt by China to ...

The Philippines, alongside allies such as the US and Australia, is prepared to counter China's attempts to control airspace ...