With investment slumping and exports declining, Pakistan is increasingly banking on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to drive future growth.

Authoritarian regimes and dictators around the world must feel vindicated by the just concluded presidential race in the United States, the one-time champion of liberal democracy that had the habit of exporting, if not imposing, its political system and the accompanying values to the rest of the world.

How much of a game changing impact will Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Bangladesh, 30 years after the last such visit, have on politics of this region and beyond?

On November 8, the United States will host an intriguing election. As the date draws closer, the results of the election appear harder to forecast.

Duterte's war on drugs is an American invention. It is an American travesty of justice, which Duterte seems intent on imposing on his own country. Not least, it is an American failure, with which Duterte is unaccountably fixated.

It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.

One newspaper called him a “most unlikely pretender to high office”, a “dunderhead” with a “big mouth”, known for his “scattershot, impulsive style”.

In a decade's time, visitors to Asean, South and North Asia may find their personal experiences in their respective destinations differ quite drastically.

The United States and China won much world acclaim when they formally ratified the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions on Saturday.

Shock and awe just about sums up the stunning achievement of young Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling at the Rio Olympics.

Islamic State unleashes terror in regions beyond the Middle Eastern sphere.

ASEAN needed to show a semblance of unity more than ever now, and their common statement on the South China Sea raises some hopes that the group can still pull off an important stunt like this at a time when most observers had given up hope.

The challenge now before all of us is to determine how deep and wide the spread of extremist ideologies is, how entrenched is the threat and, more importantly, how we can effectively fight it.

Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the antidote to those seeking the demise of the Indian National Congress party, one of the contintent's oldest political parties?

The shock waves triggered by Britain's decision to quit Europe continue to reverberate around the world, including here in Asia.