COVID-19 vaccination programs are gaining momentum as production capacity ramps up, and as disorganised and tentative distribution and administration procedures are replaced by more robust systems. A task of this size will surely encounter additional bumps along the road.

Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ever since Alibaba founder Jack Ma criticised Chinese financial regulation in a speech last October, a regulatory storm has pummelled the country’s entire online financial and consumer sector.

Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is still not even in sight.

At the height of the alleged “Red-Tagging” of celebrities, personalities, institutions, and organisations in the Philippines, Senate Resolution No.

On the first anniversary of the Muhyiddin Yassin administration, the stage is set for the next lap of Malaysia’s economic development which would include a continuing reliance on foreign direct investment (FDI). Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said that Malaysia continues to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), including Fortune 500 companies.

As countries scramble to secure COVID-19 vaccines, ugly expressions like “vaccine race” and “vaccine apartheid” have entered the global lexicon.

Evolutionary pressures accompanying the spread of the coronavirus have driven the COVID-19 pandemic into a phase in which new variants are starting to pop up everywhere.

Spreading at least as quickly as the COVID-19 virus, an ‘infodemic’ has infected large swaths of media and information exchange across ASEAN. Massive amounts of information, including rumours, misinformation and disinformation have reached millions of people who are hoping to understand how to stay safe until the pandemic has been controlled.

Emboldened by its cost-free expansion in the South China Sea, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime has stepped up efforts to replicate that model in the Himalayas.