As I sit writing, Southeast Asia is also looking destined for more instability and less peace. The Myanmar civil war is well ...

Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the Ancient Greeks played a significant role in the mission of ...

Ashoka the Great, the Mauryan emperor who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE, is widely regarded as ...

Humans have navigated the open oceans for thousands of years, but new evidence indicates communities in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and the Philippines set sail aboard advanced boats as much as ...

Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and poetry for over a thousand ...

s Asia adapts to the new reality of a US-China trade war, the precarious position of many smaller Southeast Asian nations has been laid bare. Countries that were once able to benefit from both ...

China’s state media emphasize how his translated sutras contributed to the Pure Land and Tiantai sects of Buddhism and ultimately traveled on from China to Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia ...

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis released on Thursday, calling for ...

Thailand and Bali are beautiful, but both are also struggling with overtourism and rising prices. But the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc located in the Gulf of Thailand and off the coast of ...

It is believed that Vajrayana Buddhism from Ratnagiri migrated to Southeast Asian countries, particularly the cult of Tara to Java and Tibet towards 9th-10th century CE, he added. This helped the ...

China has been a major arms supplier to Southeast Asia, but geopolitical frictions have spurred countries in the region to shop elsewhere for weapons. According to analysts, Beijing’s loss could ...