Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor of Myanmar and its de-facto leader, has called on global investors to channel funds to the nation’s crisis-hit state of Rakhine, asserting that the international community ought to stop focusing only on the “negative aspects” in the province where a reported 750,000 Rohingya have fled.

Maria Ressa, the head of a Philippine news website that has been at odds with President Rodrigo Duterte, has been granted bail just a day after her highly controversial arrest on libel charges that have been widely perceived as an effort by the government to bully journalists.

After 24 hours of drama and uncertainty, the Election Commission of Thailand has disqualified the princess of Thailand from running for Prime Minister.

Following the deadly church bombing that took place in the southern region of the Philippines over the weekend, the nation’s interior minister claimed that the attack was perpetrated by an Indonesian couple with assistance from an Islamic State-linked group known as Abu Sayyaf.

Malaysia and Singapore are once again at loggerheads: this time over an airspace and maritime dispute as Malaysia pushes for more control over its air and sea territorial borders in the south.

Singapore’s ruling party, the People’s Action Party (PAP), has named Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat as the party’s next first assistant secretary-general, a position which is often seen as a stepping stone to becoming the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate.

The never-ending saga of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) financial scandal took yet another surprising twist when the Auditor-General of Malaysia, Tan Sri Dr. Madinah Mohamad, revealed that all paragraphs mentioning the presence of businessman Low Taek Jho, who is better known as Jho Low, at a 1MDB board of directors meeting were removed from the company’s final audit report.

The former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, has been arrested after being found guilty of seven counts of graft. However, legal experts believe that she could successfully appeal the conviction and not receive any jail time due to her advanced age. If the appeals court upholds the lower court’s ruling, Mrs. Marcos could potentially challenge that decision at the Supreme Court.

The recent by-election in Myanmar saw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) lose six constituencies - a sign that local support for the first democratically elected leader of Myanmar is dwindling.

In what could be the worst aviation disaster of 2018, Lion Air Flight JT610 crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia, leaving authorities in a desperate scramble to search for survivors.

All 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to share intelligence in order to combat the rising threat of Islamist militancy in the region, announced Dr Ng Eng Hen, the Defense Minister of Singapore, on Saturday.

In the aftermath of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that wreaked havoc on Sulawesi island and effectively wiped out the city of Palu, the World Bank has announced that it will provide a loan of up to US$1 billion to the Southeast Asian nation. Current estimates have recorded the total physical cost of the earthquake at US$531 million.