Cecilia Flores-Oebanda has experienced a remarkable turn of events in her life. At aged 18 she joined communist rebels in the Philippines, at 26 she was imprisoned with a life sentence and now at 55 she has helped more than 12,000 people escape the horrors of human trafficking.

Myanmar’s conversion from pariah state to investment opportunity has seen it return to partial international respectability. Could Asia one day offer North Korea a similar chance?

After decades of house arrest and a historic election win in 2015, now comes the hard part for Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi.

The time has come to put partisan politics aside and focus on national interests.

The bomb that ripped through a busy Hindu shrine in Bangkok has not been claimed by any terrorist groups, and it’s unlikely that it will be.

Given the high ecological stakes and the number of international stakeholders in the region, the time to realize the promise of science diplomacy may now be at hand in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

Does China’s policy towards the South China Sea represent a danger to regional stability and cooperation?

Russia-Vietnam ties that seemed to be cooling after the end of the Cold War are warming up all over again. More than 20 years after Moscow abandoned its largest foreign base, Russian military aircraft are once again welcome visitors at Cam Ranh Bay.

ASEAN must change its voting mechanism if there’s any hope for the bloc to play an active role in de-escalating one of the major flashpoints in the world today.

The case of “Jihadi John” shows that the threat of radicalization is a global one.