Africa Cleaning up Guangzhou’s African enclave: A historical perspective August 28, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by the author. Written by Guangzhi Huang. In November 2014, the local government in Guangzhou launched a sweeping clean-up in Dengfeng Village,…
Burma/Myanmar Book review: ‘Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar’ August 15, 2019 0 Written by Debby Sze Wan Chan. Image Credit: ‘‘Untitled" by gforbes /CC; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the dissolution of the military regime in 2011, discussions about…
China Five years on: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jon Taylor. In February 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the ‘Jing-Jin-Ji’ (JJJ) metropolitan region in order to integrate the economies…
China Forty years and beyond: China’s rapid urbanisation since reform and opening-up March 14, 2019 0 Written by Mingxing Chen. China is experiencing the largest urbanisation process in human history. Since the beginning of reform and opening-up forty years ago, China’s…
China The interaction between urbanisation and house prices in China March 13, 2019 0 Written by Wei Bu and Yunyun Luo. Over the past decade, the rate of urbanisation in China has increased from 29.92 per cent in 1997…
China Can digital technology solve the trust issue in urbanising China? March 11, 2019 0 Written by Bingqin Li. In a country like China, rural and urban societies are geographically, economically, socially, and even culturally separated societies. Urbanisation breaks this…
China PRD, YRD and JJJ: The rise of Alphabet China March 8, 2019 0 Written by Salvatore Babones. China has been the economic success story of the century (so far). Although its growth may now be slowing, China's gross…
Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
Culture and Society Pampering London with Pinoy care January 11, 2019 0 Written by Aileen Macalintal. Patricia ‘Patchot’ Manuel, 33, has just finished her 12-hour nursing duty at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for babies. Over dinner…
Asia The long read: From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: Understanding Asia’s rural out-migration and global climate change December 14, 2018 0 By Tun Myint In addition to natural cycles of change, global climate change is driven by individual behaviours of consumption and life-style dynamics, which are…
