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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.…

Activism

Taiwan’s confused reaction to the Tiananmen Incident in 1989 and why Lee Teng-hui was right

June 4, 2019 0

Written by Ho Ming-sho. Image Credit: Tiananmen Square #6 by Mike/Flickr, Licence CC BY-SA 2.0. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a…

China

Chinese influence and the Western academy: Time for a concerted response

April 2, 2019 0

Written by Tao Zhang. For several years now, commentators have expressed concerns over the increasing influence of China in the sphere of global higher education.…

Cambodia

Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism?

March 15, 2019 0

Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…

Civil society

Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’

March 14, 2019 0

Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…

Activism

Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia?

March 14, 2019 0

Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…

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…

Culture and Society

Book raids, Red-baiting and culture wars in the Indonesian presidential election

February 21, 2019 1

Written by Michael G. Vann. On 26 December 2018, an Indonesian National Army (TNI) unit raided a book vendor in Kediri, East Java. They seized…

China

Sino-Swedish relations: The ambitious ambassador

December 18, 2018 1

By Jojje Olsson. Around the world, Chinese embassies are growing increasingly active and assertive. However, in few places is this as obvious as in Sweden,…

China

Xinjiang and Hong Kong: the periphery playbook

October 26, 2018 1

Written by Alvin Cheung. Speaking at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 14 August 2018, shortly before his political party was banned, Hong Kong…

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