Op-eds and Opinion

As the Philippines embarks on an ambitious plan to recover from the (COVID-19) pandemic...

“Unprecedented” might be judged the most used adjective of 2020, and too often for dire reasons.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caught almost every country off-guard, requiring painful adjustments to the new reality.

2020 was synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented crisis it brought across economic, social, and health dimensions.

Southeast Asian countries have been particularly cautious in opening their borders to international travelers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic... 

The signing on 15 November 2020 of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement concluded 8 years of negotiations...

Recent good news on vaccines for COVID-19 brings us closer to ending the acute phase of this terrible pandemic. But the sense of collective relief must be accompanied by a healthy dose of reality.  

In the last decade, Japan has seen a steady decline in the number of suicides, with 2019 registering the lowest figure since records began in 1978.

Compared to Asian economies’ strong links in regional trade and value chains, Asia’s intraregional cross-border capital flows are strikingly low... 

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that started in Wuhan just over a year ago has changed nearly every aspect of our lives. In just a few months, the virus spread around the globe, creating extreme uncertainty unlike what most of us have ever seen. And it is still with us today, with more than 630,000 Indonesians infected.