Local media said the new date is an indication that the general election will be called soon, but this has been denied by the de facto law minister.   

It is harder than you think to move supply chains from one country to another. That’s why there’s still no real alternative to Beijing’s might, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Anjani Trivedi and Shuli Ren.

The Thai constitutional court has suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha from ruling as his tenure comes to an end – but there are possible avenues of intervention, says an academic.

Taiwan is proposing US$19 billion in defence spending for 2023, in view of what it calls the "enemy threat" of China's increased military activity around the island.

Former defence ministers Najib Razak and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi were both involved in the deal to purchase six littoral combat ships from Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd, a declassified report revealed.