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Increase defence spending to counter China? Why US’ call is ‘difficult to sell’ in Southeast Asia
analysis Asia Increase defence spending to counter China? Why US’ call is ‘difficult to sell’ in Southeast Asia Washington’s call for Asian allies to spend 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence is untenable given competing needs in infrastructure, healthcare and education, analysts say. KUALA LUMPUR: It is "completely unrealistic" for Southeast Asian countries to heed the United States' call of boosting defence spending to counter China's growing power, analysts say, as the region prioritises...
Iran’s proxies moving towards ‘violent gig economy’, but no imminent threat to Southeast Asia: Expert
Iran’s proxies moving towards ‘violent gig economy’, but no imminent threat to Southeast Asia: Expert While there are no reports of Iran-linked “violent gig economy” activities in Southeast Asia, “well-to-do” societies may be more vulnerable to threats, says a counterterrorism expert at a dialogue in Singapore. Iran’s proxy groups may be moving towards what can be described as a “violent gig economy”, with a shift from traditional militant cells to global external operations that are more...
EV maker VinFast's quarterly revenue rises on strong Southeast Asia demand
EV maker VinFast's quarterly revenue rises on strong Southeast Asia demand June 8 : Vietnam's VinFast reported a nearly 42 per cent rise in first-quarter revenue on Monday, bolstered by strong demand for its electric vehicles from key markets in Southeast Asia. The company's quarterly revenue came in at 23.11 trillion dong ($877.24 million), compared with revenue of 16.31 trillion dong a year earlier. With EV sales sluggish in countries such as the United States, VinFast has shifted focus to...
100 days into Iran war: How rising costs are hitting consumers and businesses in Southeast Asia
100 days into Iran war: How rising costs are hitting consumers and businesses in Southeast Asia As the war on Iran marks its 100th day on Monday (Jun 8), CNA looks at how the geopolitical crisis is filtering into everyday life across the region. SINGAPORE: More than three months into the war on Iran, the aftershocks from disrupted Middle Eastern energy and shipping routes are being felt far beyond the oil market, from road construction sites in Malaysia to food and beverage operators in...
SEA-Embedding: Open and Reproducible Text Embeddings for Southeast Asia
Announce Type: new Abstract: Text embeddings are fundamental to many downstream applications, making robustness important for real-world NLP. However, most recent state-of-the-art embedding models are not reproducible because they rely on closed or undisclosed training data, and they remain insufficiently robust for Southeast Asian languages. We present SEA-Embedding, a fully open and reproducible text-embedding pipeline for Southeast Asian languages trained only on publicly available data,...
Where Southeast Asians really want to live, work and travel
Mass media commonly portrays Southeast Asia as an exciting, adventure-fuelled and culturally rich region – if often an exoticised one – for inhabitants and visitors alike. The final section of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s State of Southeast Asia 2026 Survey, based on respondents’ “relocation preference and travel choices”, adds to the already abundant evidence of the “soft power” of regional countries. Soft power, a term coined by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, is...
Where are Xi, Trump going? Travel map reveals scale of changing world order
Diplomatic travel is more than ceremony, it shows where leaders choose to place scarce political attention. Presidents and premiers cannot be everywhere, so who they meet, where they go, and how often they host foreign leaders all signal priorities that speeches and strategy papers can obscure. The itineraries aren’t just about who flies where.
Iran and Israel exchange attacks and Spencer Pratt overtaken in L.A. mayoral race: Morning Rundown
In today’s newsletter: Iran and Israel exchange attacks for the first time since the April ceasefire. Nithya Raman takes a narrow lead for second place over Spencer Pratt in the L.A. mayoral race. And in a Southeast Asia fraud network, enslaved workers are forced to target Americans.
Major quake off Philippines kills at least four, triggers tsunami warnings
Major quake off Philippines kills at least four, triggers tsunami warnings A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least four people, toppling buildings and prompting tsunami warnings across parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, as authorities ordered coastal residents to evacuate and rescuers searched for victims amid strong aftershocks. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least three people,...
Türkiye, Singapore among countries rejecting ‘strategic resignation’ amid global disorder, says Turkish foreign minister
Türkiye, Singapore among countries rejecting ‘strategic resignation’ amid global disorder, says Turkish foreign minister Speaking at a special lecture in Singapore, Minister Hakan Fidan touched on Israel and the Middle East conflict, finding alternative connectivity routes to the Straits of Hormuz and Ankara’s foreign policy approach in Southeast Asia. SINGAPORE: Türkiye and Singapore are among “a handful of wise and responsible nations” which have rejected “strategic resignation” amid a...