December 2024
The hottest travel spots as the economy turns cold
Japan is cool, Bali is always warm, but Vietnam is so hot right now. The cost-of-living pinch is driving Australians to make sure their overseas holiday hits the mark.
- James Hall
November 2024
‘Don’t drink spirits’: The sobering reality of methanol poisoning
In Asia, methanol poisoning is surprisingly common. This is why it is so dangerous, how to steer clear, and what to do if you get unlucky.
- Andrew Burke
May 2024
Labor steps up fight to stop dirty money from buying homes
Proposed anti-money laundering rules will rope in real estate agents and lawyers, amid concerns Australia could become a destination for dirty cash.
- Campbell Kwan
November 2023
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Warning to developing countries over Chinese hacking
As Pacific leaders gather against the backdrop of China-US competition, a new report highlights how Chinese hackers managed to burrow into Cambodian networks.
- Andrew Tillett
October 2023
- Opinion
- Art
Michael Lewis on how Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX fell
The Moneyball writer’s account is among four new books to explore cryptocurrency’s boom and bust, its characters – and the ordinary people who lost so much.
- Brooke Masters
September 2023
My journey into a crypto scam began with a text from Vicky Ho
As an investigative journalist, I went from a New York bar to a beach town in Cambodia to explore how organised crime gangs use messaging to dupe Westerners.
- Zeke Faux
Biden says Vietnam engagement aimed at global stability, not China
Vietnam’s Communist Party leadership formally raised the country’s ties to the United States to the highest level in Hanoi’s diplomatic hierarchy.
- Peter Baker and Katie Rogers
- Analysis
- ASEAN
Biden’s summit no-show adds to ASEAN’s relevance crisis
The absence of the US president, who typically attends, magnifies the already sombre backdrop of the 10-state bloc’s traditional show of unity and group handshakes.
- Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan
August 2023
Cambodia’s king appoints army chief Hun Manet to succeed father as PM
Hun Manet won his first seat in Parliament in last month’s general election, and the handover from his father is part of a larger, generational shift.
- Sopheng Cheang
- Opinion
- Trade deals
High digital stakes in new China-ASEAN deal
The danger with the digital alignment between China and ASEAN is that the rules governing cross-border data movement come to be as confusing and as restrictive as Beijing’s.
- Ken Heydon
July 2023
Cambodia holds lopsided election before historic transfer of power
Former Khmer Rouge guerrilla Hun Sen, 70, has led Cambodia for 38 years and is expected to hand over power to his son after Sunday’s election.
- Prak Chan Thul
June 2023
- Opinion
- China relations
China’s new culture war on America
Beijing is returning to the ‘Asian values’ debate of the 1980s and 1990s in its efforts to exclude the West from the Indo-Pacific region.
- Richard McGregor
February 2023
- Exclusive
- Private equity
Adamantem to swoop on Boost Juice, Betty’s Burgers owner
The buyout firm has purchased a majority stake in the Boost Juice, Betty’s Burgers owner that values the company at around $350 million.
- Carrie LaFrenz
January 2023
- Opinion
- Political unrest
Local resistance, not foreigners, key to Myanmar’s future
Longstanding hesitation about entanglement in a wider war will discourage foreign players from taking more aggressive, interventionist approaches.
- Nicholas Farrelly
South-East Asia most open to China’s travel revival
While Australia, Britain, India, Japan and the US require a negative COVID-19 test from inbound Chinese, South-East Asian countries have eschewed such requirements.
- Xinghui Kok
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Why China’s economy faces a perilous road to recovery
The damage that “zero-COVID” inflicted on China’s once-unbeatable attractiveness as a manufacturing hub could be hard to repair.
- Keith Bradsher
December 2022
- Opinion
- Tourism
Always wanted to go to Angkor Wat? Now’s the time
Next year maybe the busloads of Chinese tourists will be back but for now, Cambodia’s on a slow road out of COVID-19.
- Emma Connors
November 2022
‘Invest for tomorrow’s war,’ says Austin
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin says modern militaries need to forget about fighting yesterday’s wars and follow the needs of fighters.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Defence
Secrets and turbulence aboard Austin’s ‘Doomsday plane’
America’s National Airborne Operations Centre has clocked up a lot of air miles of late. Washington correspondent Matthew Cranston joined a six-day mission to South-East Asia.
- Matthew Cranston
Austin looks to reset US-China military dialogue
The US and China look likely to resume the regular high-level military dialogues cancelled after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan in August.
- Matthew Cranston