Coal smuggling trains the Mongolian public’s eye on systemic corruption
Authors: Gantulga Munkherdene, National University of Mongolia and Ariell Ahearn, University of Oxford Mongolia has substantial coal deposits across the…
Politics, power and private armed groups in the Philippines
Author: Vincent Kyle Parada, Philippine Navy On 4 March 2023, Provincial Governor Roel Degamo was gunned down inside his residential…
Indonesian voters keep their eyes on winning the home game
Author: Editorial Board, ANU The parochial focus of electorates is often lamented because it’s a supposed barrier to governments’ embrace…
A yellow card for Indonesia’s presidential frontrunner
Author: Liam Gammon, ANU If you enjoy watching opposing teams fight each other to a scoreless draw, soccer’s the sport…
The beginning of the end for PNG press freedom?
Author: Shailendra Bahadur Singh, University of the South Pacific Fiji’s new government is tabling a bill to repeal the Media…
Is WeChat’s threat to Australian elections overstated?
Author: Fan Yang, Deakin University The 2019 Australian federal election was the first time that Australian politicians interacted with Mandarin…
Ideological polarisation is the price of democratic representation in Indonesia
Author: Diego Fossati, City University of Hong Kong Democratic backsliding — understood as the decline of democratic norms, institutions, and…
Hun Sen closes in on independent media in Cambodia
Author: Will Brehm, UCL Cambodia will hold general elections on 23 July 2023. That means it is once again time…
Signs of life amid political stasis
Author: Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, Institute for Security and Development Policy At the beginning of 2023 Hong Kong followed mainland China…
Hong Kong sees signs of life amid political stasis
Author: Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, Institute for Security and Development Policy At the beginning of 2023 Hong Kong followed mainland China…