ASEAN should use its economic leverage over Myanmar’s junta
Author: Ronald Tundang, Chinese University of Hong Kong ASEAN member states should consider using economic pressure to influence the behaviour…
Drawing lessons from China’s healthcare development
Authors: Wenhui Mao and Ipchita Bharali, Duke University China has translated its economic development into improved social welfare. China’s quest…
The Chongryon element in Japan–North Korea relations
Author: Soyoung Kim, Nanyang Technological University The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan — abbreviated as Chongryon in Korean…
South Korea upholds firewall against North
Author: Martin Weiser, Seoul South Korea is widely considered a successful democracy — but there is still a severe lack…
Empowering women’s rights in Indonesia
Author: Kathryn Robinson, ANU Gender equality was a key aspiration of the popular movements that led to the toppling of…
Ukraine crisis doesn’t herald a new era for refugee rights in Japan
Author: Petrice R Flowers, University of Hawaii at Manoa In March 2022, the Japanese government announced that it would accept…
Philippine election year reinvents dynasty cartel
Author: Danilo Araña Arao, UP Diliman In the Philippines, 2022 will be remembered as an election year in which familiar…
Fixing the deadlock on North Korean denuclearisation
Author: Chung-in Moon On 19 September 2018, after signing the Pyongyang Declaration with then South Korean president Moon Jae-in, North…
Climate of fear engulfs Vietnam’s mainstream media
Author: Dien Luong, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute A fear-cloaked dynamic has increasingly percolated Vietnam’s information environment, in both cyberspace and the…
A script change in Singapore’s successor story
Author: Michael Barr, Flinders University Singapore’s biggest news story of 2022 was that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong finally settled…