The coalition agreement highlighted that “ [a] stable, free and secure Indo-Pacific region is of fundamental interest to ...

US submarine surfaces near Port Darwin March 28, 2025 - 7:54AM A United States submarine has surfaced in Darwin metres away from a port which has been leased to a Chinese company.

Adjusted for purchasing power, Australia’s per person GDP is about a third higher than New Zealand’s. Its pensions are more generous, and its centre-left Labor government has made it easier ...

democracy could die in many parts of the Pacific. For more on Asia’s democratic decline and how it is speeding up, see my new Japan Times article.

Meta Platforms Inc. is losing its senior-most business executive for the Asia-Pacific ... region, assumed the role in 2013 and oversaw the rapid expansion of the company’s user base from ...

MELBOURNE, Australia ... Asia and the Pacific islands after the United States announced major cuts to development and humanitarian aid abroad. Three-quarters of Australia's total overseas development ...

But more broadly, Wong insists that Australia’s national interest ‘lies in being at every table where Indo-Pacific economic integration is ... s going to do more to achieve peace in our region than ...

France and Indonesia are set to bolster security cooperation in the region focusing ... and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. The four-year project, part of the Indo-Pacific defense strategy ...

Australian shares were the best performers for the day after softer-than-expected inflation data furthered bets on more interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Hong Kong stocks ...

Southeast Asia was recognised more as a region ... Member of Asia-New Zealand Foundation (ANZF). In March 2018, he was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade.

Australia will shift $119 million of its foreign aid budget to the Pacific and Southeast Asia to fill the gaps in ... to maintain HIV programs in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines.

The Philippines was among the “leading reformers” in the Asia-Pacific region ... in the region are: Hong Kong, China; Japan; Singapore; Korea; Australia; New Zealand; The People’s Republic ...