Ethnic Minorities Balancing culture, ecology and livelihoods with indigenous Indonesian weavers November 26, 2019 0 Image credit: "Backstrap loom silk weaving in a Bugis country house in the central highlands of South Sulawesi" by Joel Abroad/Flickr; License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Written by…
Identity politics Setting the stage for race baiting in Malaysia October 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: Mahathir Mohamad face.jpg by Tasnim News Agency; License CC BY 4.0 Written by James Chin. On 20 September 2019 I wrote about the significance…
Burma/Myanmar The deforestation dilemma in Myanmar September 30, 2019 0 Image credit: inle_lake_049 by WorldSketchingTour/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Win Myo Thu. Deforestation is a widely discussed topic in Myanmar, although it is not…
Culture and Society Indigenous media in transformation: Languages and other factors in Taiwan September 21, 2019 0 Image credit: TITV and Alian Radio title on CTV Building 20180101 by Solomon203 /Creative Common, license CC BY-SA 4.0 Written by Chia Sui Crystal Sun What…
Business Government support or private investment? Developing community-based tourism on Taiwan’s east coast September 9, 2019 0 Written by Giulia Mengato Image credit: Hualien, Taiwan by P /Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 While corporations are typically singled out as the main perpetrators of exploitation, governments have…
Culture and Society Han Kuo-yu and the enigma of Taiwan’s indigenous politics September 9, 2019 0 Written by Scott E. Simon Image credit: 總統代表政府向原住民族道歉 by the Office of the President, Republic of China/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Taiwan is having a raucous…
Culture and Society Anger from indigenous activists after protest against efforts to protect indigenous territories September 8, 2019 0 Written by Brian Hioe. This article is republished from New Bloom. Read the original article here. Image credit: IMG_3534 by coolloud/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Although the…
Bangladesh The indigenous tribes of Bangladesh: small voices lost in the sea of frustration November 8, 2018 0 Written by Tanzia Amreen Haq. Bangladesh, with its broken electoral system, diminishing democracy and neglected human rights, lives in a state of violent peace. The…
