Coronavirus Singapore-style public health communications: A ‘victor’ of the pandemic? March 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: Photo by Andy Inakhto/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Richard Selwyn. The plane stopped, the engine off, and in the relative quiet, there…
Colonialism British-Malayan late colonial relations November 6, 2019 0 Image Credit: woc3528 Malaya & British Borneo coin cufflinks by wowcoin/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Written by Alex Sutton. The history of British-Malayan relations offers an insight…
Film Crazy Rich Asians and competing Asian subjectivities August 9, 2019 1 Written by Mark Gallagher. Image Credit (header image and included screenshots): Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Directed by Jon M. Chu. [Film]. US: Warner Bros. Enterntainment. The…
Corruption The role of money in Southeast Asian politics August 1, 2019 0 Written by Andreas Ufen. Image Credit: Jokowi by Eduardo M.C./Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Parties and candidates in many Southeast Asian countries need enormous amounts of…
Activism Polarising Dissent: The constructed narrative of Singapore’s new ‘fake news’ law June 10, 2019 0 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Image Credit: singapore by Matt Madd/Flickr, Licence CC BY 2.0. On 8 May 2019, Singapore passed its fake news legislation.…
Australia A tale of two Huangs May 7, 2019 0 Written by Euan Graham. Political interference, conducted overseas at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), remains a shadowy and contentious subject. While international…
Business Sanitising and scrutinising social media in Singapore – fake news or just politics? March 13, 2019 2 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Singapore seems ready to add another feather to its cap as the ‘hub capital’ of ASEAN after Facebook…
Identity politics Chinese ethno-nationalism in Singapore: Demography, culture and power March 7, 2019 3 Image credit: Skyscapers, Singapore by Cegoh/Pixabay; Licence: Simplified Pixabay Licence. Written by Michael D. Barr. Ethnic Chinese have formed a demographic majority in Singapore since the census of…
Globalisation Asian inequality: A model country with a growing problem September 18, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali What does poverty feel like? What does it sound like? And more importantly, what does it look like? For many, the…
China Back to the future: Old friends and rivals returning in Malaysia’s ‘new’ foreign policy direction? August 1, 2018 0 Written by Scott Edwards. A change in regime always raises questions over future directions for foreign policy, and this is especially true for Malaysia’s first…
