Inequality fuelling the fire for Thailand’s political change
Author: Thorn Pitidol, Thammasat University Thailand is going through one of the most significant moments in its recent history. After…
Content flow across the great firewall on WeChat
Authors: Haiqing Yu, RMIT University and Wanning Sun, UTS WeChat is a news-sharing and content-distribution platform where people can easily…
Creatives as frontliners in the Philippines’ fight against disinformation
Authors: Juan Felix, Active Vista Center Inc., Ferdinand Sanchez II and Nicole Curato, University of Canberra The Philippines is often…
Divorce as a ‘certificate of happiness’ in modern China
Author: Pan Wang, UNSW China’s marriage and birth rates have plunged to record lows but its divorce rates have skyrocketed…
How realistic is a smoke-free New Zealand?
Author: Chris Bullen, University of Auckland In 2011 the New Zealand government adopted the goal of making New Zealand smoke-free…
Australia’s China illiteracy has dangerous consequences
Author: Yun Jiang, AIIA China Matters The deficiency of Australia’s Asia literacy — and as a subset, China literacy —…
Education reform is needed to alleviate South Korea’s demographic decline
Author: Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University South Korea’s fertility rate — the number of babies born to women in their…
China’s gender policies after zero-COVID
Author: Chen Chen, US Council on Foreign Relations In November 2022 a female undergraduate stood outside a cafeteria at Tsinghua…
Monks and militias in Myanmar
Authors: Amara Thiha and Marte Nilsen, PRIO The political implications of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks and ideologies in Myanmar received much…
Crime in Japan is back to normal
Author: Martina Baradel, Oxford University In July 2022, the violent killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, shot at…