Southeast Asia COVID-19

Multiple governments in the region have used misinformation laws to suppress critical reporting on COVID-19.

Vietnam's outbreak highlights the fact that victories against the coronavirus are fragile and easily reversed.

As the disease ravages India, several Southeast Asian nations are also weathering record outbreaks.

The effects of the pandemic have fallen most heavily on minorities, while leaders have used COVID-19 as a pretext to expand their executive power.

Ideally, the pandemic should prompt a long-term mindset shift toward anticipating – and growing from – future crises.

A conversation with the financial analyst David Totten.

Unsurprisingly, distribution of vaccines is expected to track global distributions of wealth.

In recent weeks, the nation has donated masks and personal protective equipment to several other Southeast Asian nations.

The country's porous and poorly regulated borders loom as potential vectors for crossborder transmission.

As authoritarian leaders in many Southeast Asian countries use the pandemic to consolidate their hold, what needs to be done to buck the trend?

After weathering the early stages of the pandemic, several Southeast Asian nations are in the midst of worrying spikes of COVID-19.