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Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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The region faces a perennial haze scourge, with enforcement of bans against slash-and-burn farm practices remaining patchy.
Burned by soaring energy prices, Southeast Asian nations are racing to future-proof themselves against the volatility of war.
A new UNDP report has forecast job losses, crippling inflation and food insecurity, with the poorest nations brutally exposed to the oil shock.
Soaring costs for fuel and ice fail to dampen the mood as a wave of ‘revenge travel’ provides a much-needed economic boost.
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Rising fertiliser costs and fuel rationing have affected farmers’ productivity, but Myanmar has little capital to replenish these stocks.
Police are investigating alleged oil hoarding in southern Thailand and reselling to nearby countries, citing ‘abnormal’ vessel movements.
Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’.
His transition from top general to president is a ‘veneer’ that poses a challenge for Asean, which has long shunned him, critics say.
After being denied fuel, a Thai man live-streamed the moment he showed station staff an occupied coffin to prove his urgent need.
Scam bosses and their multibillion-dollar crime networks are fleeing to Myanmar, Laos and Thailand ahead of an April deadline.
While the lower prices may be a boon for visitors, businesses say ‘the stillness is unsettling’ as they brace themselves for hardship.
From Laos to Thailand, long queues are forming at petrol stations while residents are reeling from surging fuel prices.
Birth rates are falling. Populations are ageing. In Southeast Asia, the business of dying has never been bigger.
Facing economic challenges and border tensions with Cambodia, the prime minister has pledged swift responses to public needs.
Stacked with military allies and ex-generals, the new assembly aims to legitimise a regime the United Nations and EU have branded a sham.
With Chinese investors seizing the supply chain, Thai coconuts now fetch less than a piece of chewing gum, wiping out profits for growers.
These firms used Thai nominees to control the coconut sector and resell the fruit by as much as 25 times the price paid to farmers.
As drivers panic buy diesel and the public is urged to limit air con use, Thai civil servants are ordered home to preserve dwindling energy.
Southeast Asia was already going electric. Then war broke out in the Middle East and it started going faster.
The energy firm will maintain prices for 15 days, even as Thailand says it will still export oil to Laos.
Bangkok has been here before: 46 Thais died in the Hamas assault that started the Gaza war. Now it fears history may be repeating.
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief is staking his legacy on 10 per cent growth, domestic megaprojects and an overseas charm offensive.
Around 150,000 young ravers are expected to flood Pattaya for the world’s largest electronic music festival in December.
‘By the time we realised they were sick, it was too late,’ said an official, as welfare groups decry a life of misery and confinement.
The country’s heavy investment in wooing Chinese visitors appears to have paid off as it overcomes safety fears to secure holiday growth.
With counting errors forcing revotes this Sunday, the reformist opposition is seizing on irregularities to demand a fresh election.
While Cambodia takes its border grievances to Trump’s Board of Peace, Thailand rejects its ‘false’ claims and threatens a border wall.
Shuttered borders have choked trade and sent migrant workers home, forcing Phnom Penh to seek new partners and markets.
Sasiphat Sinsamosorn, 54, had negotiated with the attacker for the release of a pupil in exchange for herself.
