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Scourge of Childhood STIs Defeats Millennium Goals

1 week ago | asiasentinel.com | Shobha Shukla |Bobby Ramakant

By: Shobha Shukla and Bobby RamakantChildren at Mai Hoa AIDS Center, Vietnam. Photo from the New York TimesWith fewer than five years left to meet the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets, the world is failing in its campaign to end three of the most pernicious infections that afflict children. They are HIV, hepatitis B,…
Did China Reportedly Threaten Taiwan’s LNG Supply?

2 weeks ago | asiasentinel.com | Jens Kastner

By: Jens KastnerChina’s “Strait Thunder-2025A” military exercise against Taiwan in early April received worldwide media coverage for involving the People’s Liberation Army, navy, and rocket forces approaching Taiwan from multiple directions and simulating a blockade.
DOGE and the Tragedy of Myanmar

2 weeks ago | asiasentinel.com | Charles M. Sennott

By: Charles M. SennottRemains of Radio Free Asia in Myanmar. Screenshot from rfa.orgAmid the vast devastation of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar on March 28, there is one specific pile of rubble that offers a global metaphor for the destruction of a cornerstone of democracy. The collapsed chunks of concrete, twisted steel, and shattered …
Donald Trump's spiteful delusion

2 weeks ago | asiasentinel.com | Philip Bowring

He may be 78 years old, but Donald Trump sounded like a self-pitying spoiled child when he unveiled his packet of tariffs which is supposed to raise money, cure the trade deficit and deliver punishments, almost the worst of which fall on the US’s major Asian friends – Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and India – as well as Europe. The underlying theme in Trump’s mind is that unfair practices by foreigners account for the trade deficit.
BOOK REVIEW: Melanesia (Travels in Black Oceania)

3 weeks ago | asiasentinel.com | Hamish McDonald |Philip Bowring

This is a rare and excellent book about a region which had to be invented but is nonetheless very real for that. Melanesia, as Hamish McDonald points out early, was defined as islands which were not Polynesia and not Micronesia, and where people generally had blacker skin than those of the other South Pacific islands. Nor did they share, unlike the Poly…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Taiwan Bends to Trump, Signs Pact for Alaskan LNG

4 weeks ago | asiasentinel.com | Jens Kastner

By: Jens KastnerIn a thinly-veiled maneuver to keep the Trump administration committed to Taiwan’s defense against an increasingly hostile China, Taiwan’s state-run oil refiner CPC Corp. has agreed with Alaska Gasline Development Corp (AGDC) to not only to buy US-originated liquefied natural gas (LNG) but also to participate in the project’s pricey “upstream gas investment.”The island also is seeking to avoid drastic import tariffs Trump has threatened on Taiwanese semiconductors.
The Global Problem of Fake Medicines

1 month ago | asiasentinel.com | Shobha Shukla |Bobby Ramakant

By: Shobha Shukla and Bobby RamakantFake drugs seized in the PhilippinesAt least one in 10 medicines in low- and middle-income countries is substandard or falsified, according to a December 2024 study by the World Health Organization, which found that these countries spend an estimated US$30.5 billion per year on bogus drugs, often sold online or in inf…
Stock Market Plunge Signals Fading Indonesian Economy

1 month ago | asiasentinel.com | Ainur Rohmah

By: Ainur RohmahPlagued by steeply climbing state debt and spooked by erratic economic policies pushed by President Subianto Prabowo, the Jakarta Composite Index plummeted so sharply on March 18 that officials halted trading for 30 minutes, the market’s worst performance since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Analysts say the steep correction isn’t solely due to external factors but is also driven by a combination of domestic issues that have eroded investor confidence.
Asia Can Do African Development Aid Differently

1 month ago | asiasentinel.com | Xiaochen Su

By: Xiaochen SuUS President Trump’s ongoing cuts to foreign assistance, headlined by a shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), open a golden opportunity for Asian nations to come into their own in providing humanitarian aid to some of the most aid-dependent parts of the world, particularly in Africa. It can p…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Panama Port Sale by True Master of The Art of The Deal

1 month ago | asiasentinel.com | Philip Bowring

Most of the US media have gone along with “Art of the Deal” Donald Trump’s claim of victory with the agreement for a consortium led by Wall Street giant BlackRock to acquire management of Panama’s ports. Hence it is claimed to have taken them away from China and returned them to US control. The reality is that port was never under Chinese control.