...more critical than leadership or domestic politics in accounting for Thailand’s decade of foreign policy retrenchment is...regional and geopolitics.

This public health problem demands a radically different solution.

The 2020 Protest posed an existential threat to the Thai state. The government of Prayuth Chan-ocha has enlisted every available weapon to fight back, including COVID-19.

The loyalty of some Islamist groups to AQ, and by extension, the Taliban, is evident from the content posted on their respective affiliated websites and publications.

Throughout the update, the importance of targeting any sanctions imposed by the international community was also emphasised.

Bringing them home is the only option that addresses both the humanitarian and security aim of weakening Indonesian links to terrorist networks abroad. 

The promise of the “New Malaysia” that would emerge after the historic 2018 election has been delayed again indefinitely.

The NUG needs to develop clear vision for a more equal and inclusive Myanmar.

The health response has been repeatedly undermined and hampered by the authoritarian tendencies of coup leaders.

Ethical questions around Dutch soldiers’ actions on which the film reflects are less urgent in Indonesian films.

The economy, and domestic and foreign policy will be in sharp focus at the Thai Update 2021 at The Australian National University (ANU).

This is not a series of incidental disasters, but the result of structural problems related to capitalist expansion, climate change and recurring global epidemics

Southeast Asian citizens are not providing carte blanche to their governments to wind back civil liberties and political rights.

...garment employers regularly used COVID-19 as a pretext to target union members. The pandemic has been weaponised to get rid of trade unions.

Sovereignty concerns arise over foreign ownership of critical national assets, and foreign control of service provision in critical sectors.

Streicher spent time researching this troubled region talking to local civilians, activists, journalists, academics, as well as military conscripts and senior officers.

A personal tragedy illustrates a larger disaster playing out across the city.

...creating spaces for civil society should be integral to post-pandemic recovery and reconstruction plans.

On their 100th anniversary the CCP received two congratulatory messages from Ethnic Armed organizations (EAOs) in northern Myanmar are noteworthy

...with COVID-19, and a coup, predicting the course of Myanmar’s future may best be put in the hands of the astrologers.

If stories of shock are transferred to younger generations, so is the narrative of resilience that their elders pass down.

Along with the ineffectual lockdown the widely reported graft has fomented outrage and eroded trust in the government’s ability to handle the pandemic and keep its people safe.

Pengakuan pentingnya peran ini bisa memperkuatkan strategi baru.

The furore over a few seemingly innocuous pages in a textbook provide an indication of just how polarised Malaysian society has become.