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Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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Caretaker PM Anutin rides nationalist wave over Cambodia; Pheu Thai taps Thaksin’s nephew to revive brand; reformists drop key vows to stay relevant.
Analysts warn that conflict, power shortages and resource extraction under military rule are pushing Myanmar’s economy further into reverse.
As the country mourns the loss of Queen Mother Sirikit amid political chaos and a sluggish economy, Lisa’s global reign lights up Thai public.
The multiphase election, which the junta insists is ‘free and fair’, comes nearly four years after it took power in a coup.
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The junta’s phased election starting on Sunday has been slammed as a ploy for its generals to stay in power.
Curfews, increased airport screening and the bombing of the province housing Angkor Wat have rattled foreign travellers.
As wealthy buyers seek penthouses with living-room supercar parking, struggling families battle banks to keep a roof overhead.
Thailand’s military said the coming election would not affect its operations against Cambodia amid a renewed border conflict.
Tens of thousands have fled their homes for the second time this year as Thailand and Cambodia trade heavy fire, leaving at least 10 dead.
Thailand says the F-16 strikes were ‘executed with caution’ against military targets to neutralise a threat to national security.
Authorities are seizing assets and raiding compounds, but analysts warn the clumsy crackdown is merely scattering syndicates to new hideouts.
Asia makes the chips driving the AI boom, but the technology threatens to erase jobs and widen the region’s wealth gap, a new UN report says.
It could become ‘everybody vs the People’s Party’ as old power networks unite to crush the movement that won the popular vote in 2023.
Thai rescuers struggle to reach communities outside urban areas as swathes of Thailand’s south and Malaysia’s north remain under water.
The navy will deploy an aircraft carrier and deliver meals to help those in the flood-hit south, amid public outcry over chaotic relief efforts.
Scores have died and entire communities displaced as a late-season monsoon surge overwhelms fragile flood-management systems.
The former prime minister was tried in absentia for the killing of hundreds of people during a student-led uprising last year.
With a 30th year of Cop climate talks under way in Brazil, for many of Asia’s most vulnerable populations, the crisis is already here.
Cambodia has accused the Thai military of causing the death of a civilian on its side of the disputed border.
Analysts say the pact the US president helped broker was tenuous from the outset.
A blizzard of free trade deals and clever sourcing has helped Thai ice cream exports surge by more than 10 per cent annually since 2020.
Hastily signed rare earths pacts with Thailand and Malaysia have raised alarm about the environmental and economic fallout.
Antonio Guterres has also called on all parties to support Asean’s push for an immediate end to the conflict in Myanmar.
The ‘strategic importance’ of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is ‘clearer than ever’, Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim says.
Host Malaysia signs deal granting US access to rare earths, while American president tells Asean he is with the bloc ‘100 per cent’.
Observers warn the US president’s focus on the spectacle of the ‘Kuala Lumpur Accords’ risks impeding their lasting implementation.
Trump’s tariffs are squeezing margins, re-routing supply chains and forcing companies to wean themselves off the US market.
The scourge of scams in the region threatens to embarrass Asean as it holds a summit in the presence of world leaders such as Donald Trump.
Malaysia, as summit host, finds itself caught between a US president hungry for a Nobel and a key trading partner in China.
