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The new government in Bangladesh begins its tenure with an unusually crowded foreign policy inbox. The swearing-in of Tarique Rahman as prime minister on February 17, 2026, marks the end of a turbulent transition. Following a commanding mandate in the February 12 general elections, held simultaneously with a landmark constitutional referendum, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party…
Indonesia’s growing waste problem has long been viewed as a burden — a mounting strain on landfills, public health and municipal budgets. The waste-to-energy (WtE) initiative led by Danantara Indonesia, now entering its first phase in Bali, Bogor, Bekasi and Yogyakarta, promises a new approach: transforming municipal waste into electricity while deepening green cooperation with…
A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the world’s smallest and most energy-efficient transistor in a breakthrough poised to anchor the next generation of high-performance AI hardware. The researchers achieved the feat in ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs), which function similarly to neurons in the human brain as they integrate memory and processing in a single unit,…
US military forces boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. An organisation that tracks ship movements said the vessel was the only tanker left to pursue after more than a…
The maxim, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”, attributed to the Athenian historian Thucydides, described the reality of world politics for millennia. Today there are forces that wish to see a return to a world where “might equals right”. The European Union, born out of the ashes of…
The raging reaction by President Donald Trump to the US Supreme Court’s ruling on his “emergency” import tariffs brought back memories of the testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson to the January 6th committee about his alleged food-throwing behavior. His rant put his weaknesses on full display. We know his strengths: he is…
The European Union’s trade chief Maros Sefcovic has railed against the bloc’s glacial trade defences, warning that years-long probes and rigid rules will not protect the bloc from China’s increasingly fierce export machine. Speaking in the European Parliament on Tuesday, Sefcovic lashed out at Beijing’s “unsustainable” trade surplus and called for an urgent overhaul of…
First published by Pacific Forum‘s The Pilot: Indo-Pacific Policy Briefs, this article is republished with permission. Last week, former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (2022-25)receiveda life sentence for leading an insurrection in connection to his aborted martial law declaration in December 2024. A few days later, it came to light that South Korea hadobjectedto…
Visitor numbers in Hong Kong rose about 14 per cent during the Chinese New Year holiday but more residents left the city, while local retailers reported bumper sales of gold products. Some retailers reported single purchases worth millions of Hong Kong dollars within categories such as watches and jewellery, even as the broader retail recovery…
Hong Kong should increase funding for university research to position itself as a global education hub, a leading academic has said, citing a growing trend of students choosing Asian destinations for tertiary studies. Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is hosting this year’s Asia-Pacific Association for International…
