Culture and Society Muay Thai January 17, 2020 0 Image credit: Muay Thai by Robinnnnn; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Peter Vail. Muay Thai is undoubtedly Southeast Asia’s best known indigenous sport. Raucous, violent, colourful…
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…
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 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…
Poverty Can India Become a Great Power? 70 Years of Underdevelopment August 15, 2017 0 Written by Diego Maiorano. Over a quarter of India’s population – and over a third of the female population – cannot read or write. To…
China The Elderly Are Becoming the New Self-Governing Subjects in China August 2, 2017 0 Written by Wanning Sun. In June of this year, Chinanews.com reprinted a news story from a leading current affairs publication, Bi-Monthly Forum (半月谈), describing the…
China Population ageing in China August 1, 2017 0 Written by Jieyu Liu. Like many countries, population ageing is a significant area of concern for policy makers in China. However, unlike western countries, the…
China The Other Side of China’s Fast-Growing Economy and Jia Zhangke’s Filmic World July 7, 2017 0 Written by Yuxing Zhou. The past decade has witnessed an increasing quantity and variety in film production in mainland China. Annul box-office results and production…
Philippines The Philippines, Duterte, and the Undeserving Poor February 21, 2017 0 Written by Pauline Eadie. On the eve of the 2016 Philippine election, then presidential candidate Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced to voters that he was ready to…
