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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...
SEA-NLI: Natural Language Inference as a Lens into Southeast Asian Cultural Understanding
arXiv:2606.03284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier LLMs perform well in Western contexts, but remain poorly tested on underrepresented cultures such as those in Southeast Asia (SEA). Existing NLI benchmarks are largely Western-centric, translation-derived, or monolingual, limiting their ability to measure culturally grounded reasoning. We introduce SEA-NLI, a native, culturally grounded NLI benchmark covering eight SEA countries in English and native regional languages, verified by...
Culturally-Adapted Red-Teaming Across East and Southeast Asian Contexts: A Methodological and Comparative Analysis
Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual safety evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has predominantly relied on direct translation (DT) of English benchmarks into target languages - an approach that converts surface-level linguistic form while failing to reflect the cultural context embedded in threat scenarios, social norms, and legal frameworks. We construct paired DT and culturally-adapted (CA) datasets via 1:1 seed matching for four languages - Korean (KO), Japanese (JA), Thai...
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...
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,...
With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order, ASEAN holds lessons: Timor-Leste president
With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order, ASEAN holds lessons: Timor-Leste president President José Ramos-Horta also called on the Southeast Asian grouping to have the “audacity to declare the South China Sea a zone of peace” in a special address at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30. SINGAPORE: Amid a fraying global security order, the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) offers a model on how “patient practical diplomacy” can transform conflict into...
Indonesia’s rupiah falls to record low against US dollar
Indonesia’s rupiah falls to record low against US dollar Currency plunge comes as energy shock from the Iran war casts a cloud over Southeast Asian economies. Indonesia’s rupiah has hit its weakest level ever against the US dollar, breaching the psychological 18,000 threshold amid surging energy costs. The currency hit 18,028 against the greenback on Thursday, despite recent central bank efforts to provide support.
EV maker VinFast's revenue jumps on SE Asian demand, but loss widens
EV maker VinFast's revenue jumps on SE Asian demand, but loss widens June 8 : Vietnam's VinFast reported a nearly 42 per cent rise in first-quarter revenue on Monday, driven by strong demand for its electric vehicles in key Southeast Asian markets, but posted a wider net loss. Quarterly revenue rose to 23.11 trillion dong ($877.24 million) from 16.31 trillion dong a year earlier, the company said in a statement. In recent years, VinFast has shifted focus to Southeast Asia and India,...
As Putin courts Southeast Asia, does ‘Russia need Asean more’?
A summit between Russia and Asean next week promises to ease Southeast Asia’s energy crisis and Moscow’s diplomatic isolation – but not all of the bloc’s leaders are expected to show up. Analysts are also divided on whether Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, the current Asean chair, will travel to Kazan for the meeting, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 17–18. The summit marks the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Association of Southeast Asian...
Leaders of ASEAN nations to meet with Putin at June summit in Russia
The Philippines' top diplomat says Southeast Asian leaders will hold a commemorative summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia in June