World leaders are traveling to Kuala Lumpur this week for the 47th ASEAN Summit and a series of related meetings, in what is shaping up to be the bloc’s most important gathering in years. The summit, ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Southeast Asia finds itself in unfamiliar territory. On the surface, it has been a good year: the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur admitted Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member.

A Malaysian official raises the country’s flag ahead of the 46th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 26, 2025. Credit: MOFA Malaysia Kuala Lumpur is under a tight security lockdown this week – ...

ASEAN faces significant humanitarian and coordination challenges if a crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait. More than 700,000 Southeast Asians live and work on the island and current evacuation planning ...