Darrelle Ng

Costa Rica’s Minister of Foreign Trade Manuel Tovar Rivera, in an interview with CNA’s Olivia Marzuki, discuses how energy security, Asia ties and supply chain shifts are shaping the nation's strategy.

As energy vulnerabilities persist, IMF’s Asia-Pacific director Krishna Srinivasan says stronger regional trade could help Asia sustain growth and create jobs.

New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon discussed the Indo-Pacific’s economic potential, geopolitical tensions, and efforts by countries like New Zealand and Singapore to strengthen trade and security ties in an interview with CNA’s Angela Lim.

The United Arab Emirates’ Habshan-Fujairah pipeline transports oil to a port 70 nautical miles outside the Strait of Hormuz, allowing up to 1.5 million barrels to bypass the chokepoint daily.

With AI becoming more embedded in daily life, building critical thinking skills and maintaining human connections may be key to ensuring it remains a helpful tool, rather than a harmful substitute, experts say on CNA’s Deep Dive podcast.

New Zealand could move faster towards its target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence if security conditions warrant it, Defence Minister Chris Penk tells CNA.

Europe must take greater responsibility for its own defence, learn from Ukraine's battlefield experience and become a stronger partner to the US, the Netherlands' Deputy Prime Minister Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius told CNA's Tan Qiuyi on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue.

Growing threats to critical underwater infrastructure, such as telecommunications cables and energy pipelines, underscore the need for stronger maritime defence capabilities, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles told CNA's Tan Qiuyi on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue.

Speaking to CNA's Leong Wai Kit on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr also defended recent military exercises with allies, and blames China's "expansionism" for tensions in the South China Sea.

Recovery operations have been complicated by more than 2,000 aftershocks since the quake, some reaching magnitudes as high as 6.4 on the Richter scale.