conflict Why Filipinos have come to embrace authoritarian ‘discipline’ July 3, 2019 1 Written by Wataru Kusaka. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. With no opposition candidates winning a single senatorial seat, President Rodrigo Duterte…
Belt and Road Initiative The balancing act ahead: Legislative options for the China-Philippines relationship after the midterm elections July 2, 2019 0 Written by Matthew Ordoñez. Image Credit: DSC08858 by mountain_MX/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recently concluded 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines held on 13 May represent…
Civil society Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system July 1, 2019 0 Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…
Economic Growth Malaysian palm oil: National pride and prejudice through the years June 3, 2019 0 Written by Helena Varkkey. Image Credit: Palm oil plantation by Angela Sevin /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Introduced to then-Malaya from West Africa via the Dutch East Indies…
China Urban poverty and China’s globalism: what’s the relationship? April 23, 2018 1 Written by Dorothy J. Solinger. China’s Party chief and President, Xi Jinping, has boastfully publicized his regime’s firm intention to eliminate poverty by the year…
China Domestic Gender Inequalities in China: Count Children In February 2, 2018 0 Written by Yang Hu. Progress toward gender equality is a tale of two spheres in China. In the public sphere, we see converging trends in…
Cambodia The Contested Terrain of Cambodian Women’s Social Mobility August 11, 2017 0 Written by Vicheth Sen. A recent report shows how impressive Cambodia’s economic growth has been, being one of the few countries in the world with…
Diaspora No Smooth Sailing: Philippines ‘Utility Men’, Servitude and Dreams of Better Days. May 30, 2017 0 A utility man recruiting seafarers at Manila's informal seamen's market along Kalaw Street Written by Roderick Galam. ‘If you stayed and worked here, nothing is…
Business Strikes and uprisings in India's automobile factories March 21, 2017 1 Written by Jörg Nowak. The strikes and riots at India´s biggest passenger car producer Maruti Suzuki in 2011 and 2012 sent shockwaves throughout the automobile…
China Made in China 2025 October 26, 2016 0 Written by Boy Lüthje. China has become an important testing ground for an emerging paradigm of capitalist production that has been promoted under catchwords like…
