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Southeast Asia's traditional wet season, which typically spans October through March, is driven by the Australian-Indonesian monsoon (AIM) system. This meteorological phenomenon generates air currents flowing from Asia toward Australia, transporting significant moisture that results in substantial precipitation across the region.
The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs provides in-depth analyses of current issues in political, social and economic life; culture; and development in Southeast Asia, as well as information on the regional organization ASEAN and its relations with the great powers of the region. In addition, special background analyses examine ...
SEACEN started as an unofficial grouping of central banks governors from the International Monetary Fund's Southeast Asia Voting Group. The first meeting of that group was held in Bangkok on 3–4 February 1966, with participating governors from the National Bank of Laos, Central Bank of Malaysia, Central Bank of the Philippines, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, National Bank of Vietnam, Bank of ...
As 2024 comes to a close, the index is poised to be Southeast Asia’s best-performing stock market index. The STI, which tracks the 30 largest companies by market value traded on Singapore’s ...
Vietnam and Laos were not the only countries in the region to set records over the weekend. Cambodia had its hottest May day on record after temperatures topped out at 106.9 F (41.6 C) on Saturday
Now the Thai government is betting EVs will allow it to maintain its position as “the Detroit of Southeast Asia.” Bangkok has a “30@30” plan, with a goal of 30% of autos produced to be EVs ...
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is an American non-profit research institution based in Seattle, Washington, with a branch office in Washington, D.C.. NBR brings together specialists, policymakers, and business leaders to examine economic, strategic, political, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with East, Central, Southeast and South Asia and Russia.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was confirmed to have spread to Southeast Asia on 13 January 2020, when a 61-year-old woman from Wuhan tested positive in Thailand , making it the ...