Consumer spending critical to China’s economic recovery
Author: Yan Liang, Willamette University It was a bleak year for the Chinese economy in 2022. Strict zero-COVID measures and…
Improving working conditions in Japan’s agriculture sector
Author: Yusaku Yoshikawa, JIN Corporation In 2019, the Japanese government introduced the Work Style Reform Law which sought to increase…
Cambodia edges towards an independent foreign policy
Author: Chansambath Bong, Asian Vision Institute Taking the baton for the third time as the ASEAN chair in 2022, Cambodia’s…
Cambodia working towards independent foreign policy
Author: Chansambath Bong, Asian Vision Institute Taking the baton for the third time as the ASEAN chair in 2022, Cambodia’s…
Myanmar’s arrested environmental activism
Authors: Adam Simpson, University of South Australia, Thomas Kean, International Crisis Group, and Susan Park, University of Sydney In the…
Dangerous divides bedevil Southeast Asia’s majority-Muslim democracies
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Around the time of Indonesia’s 2019 presidential elections, there was great concern about the damage that…
Malaysia follows Indonesia on the road from authoritarian hegemony
Author: Dan Slater, University of Michigan Indonesia and Malaysia have always been similar enough to make direct comparisons promising, but…
Beijing sees window of opportunity in Taiwan with opposition KMT visit: analyst
The meeting came days after Song met Hung Hsiu-chu, the KMT’s former chairwoman, in the coastal city of Xiamen, which…
Beijing calls off Taiwan trip to pay tribute to late monk Hsing Yun amid entry permit row
TAO spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian said the group – which also included officials from Jiangsu province, the State Administration for Religious…
Challenging times ahead for Laos’s new prime minister
Author: Toshiro Nishizawa, University of Tokyo While rumours of former Lao prime minister Phankham Viphavanh’s premature resignation surfaced in mid-December…