Op-eds and Opinion

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.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most commonly used measure of countries' production and income.

Early this year, after 15 years ranked as a lower-middle income country, Indonesia graduated to upper-middle income country status (UMIC).

In 2021, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will host two conferences of parties (COP) for conventions of United Nations, one for Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and the other for Convention on Wetlands..