Vietnam's stock market has plunged and its economic growth has dwindled since 2006, when it was seen as a model for emerging country growth. The country's experience highlights the problems confronting emerging markets in the 2008 financial crisis.

Listen to First Lady Laura Bush reflect on the global state of human rights, with particular emphasis on Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Afghanistan.

This stable democracy with a hot market economy resembles another Asian giant in the 1990s.

Bridget Welsh, an expert on Malaysia, says the country's prime minister has alienated minorities and failed to implement reforms and the country's position in the world has declined under his leadership.

Amid political uncertainty in Bangkok, a violent insurgency continues in the country's majority Malay Muslim provinces in the south, with no possible settlement in sight.

Thailand's government is currently struggling with political turmoil and the southern insurgency.

Cambodia has come a long way from the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge, but development challenges and lack of freedoms continue to hamper growth.

The United Nations has frequently cited East Timor as a model nation-building project. But new unrest in the tiny Asian state indicates that the international community has again failed to show the stamina to guide a nation toward genuine stability.

The ASEAN Terms of Reference for the High Level Panel on an ASEAN Human Rights Body was adopted on July 21, 2008 at the ASEAN ministerial meeting.

Rising commodity prices have boosted mining profits, bringing windfalls to some regions and raising the possibility of large-scale industry consolidation.

Australia and Canada don’t have particularly deep or close relations, but there are strong reasons to believe that closer Canberra-Ottawa ties would bring substantial benefits to both, writes Walter Russell Mead.

A profile of terrorism in the Philippines.

A softer approach to terrorism, like the one adopted by Indonesia, may have valuable lessons for other countries struggling with militant violence.

The Burmese government failed to adequately respond to a cyclone that struck the country last week, while the world chose to respond and point out the problems within the country.

Michael Moran discusses the response to Cyclone Nargis by Myanmar’s authoritarian government, “a regime so fearful for its own survival that it would allow tens of thousands more of its citizens to perish of post-disaster disease, exposure and privations, rather than allow a willing world to come help.”

Stewart Patrick addresses the difficult question of whether or not the UN should intervene in Myanmar and do something about the “callous indifference” that the ruling junta is showing towards its people.

Council on Foreign Relations Address by Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, on the future of U.S.-ASEAN relations.