A decades-old spat over alleged Hindi imposition in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has erupted again. Here’s why.

Amid ongoing debates on multilingualism, a look at George Grierson’s First Linguistic Survey of India that identified over ...

A proposal to create a business-friendly, globally connected financial district sparks new dialogue on economic reform.

More than 20 earthquakes have hit central and southeast Asia in the last 24 hours, with one of the most powerful in 75 years in Myanmar.

A new ad campaign seeks to alert Spanish-speaking voters in Republican-led swing districts on what is at risk for their health after Congress voted to advance spending plans including more than $ ...

The proposed negotiation of an Australia–Papua New Guinea defence treaty will falter unless the Australian Defence Force embraces cultural intelligence and starts being more strategic with teaching ...

JOHOR – Heavy rainfall in Johor has led to severe flooding in five districts, forcing the evacuation ... particularly in flood-prone areas. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK ...

NEW DELHI – The Philippines and its allies are trying to expand the Squad grouping of nations to include India and South Korea to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region, the Philippines ...

Chinese tea chain Chagee has once again landed in hot water with Malaysia’s censorious consumers after its mobile app displayed a map with Beijing ... claim over the South China Sea, sparking ...

Global South regions like Africa (2.1 percent), South America (2.1 percent), and Southeast Asia (2.0 percent) each contribute only a small fraction of global military expenditure, despite ...

The news for some of Southeast Asia’s big stock exchanges has not been great lately. Since mid-September 2024, the Jakarta composite index has declined by around 18 percent. On March 18 ...

Such statements were widely welcomed in South East Asia, where the emerging leadership wanted to follow a similar path and saw India as an economic example. Their concerns can be revisited today ...