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New India, new era: Gunpoint democracy

December 18, 2019 0

Image Credit: DSC_0920 by Suhas Das/Flickr; Licence : CC BY NC 2.0  Written by Nayan Jyoti. Assam has borne the brunt of a massive influx…

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Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law

December 16, 2019 2

Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…

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The party-list system in the Philippines: Is it better or worse for democracy?

July 4, 2019 0

Written by Jorge Villamor Tigno. Image Credit: Satur Ocampo & Liza Maza file candidacy for Senate by Victor Villanueva/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The party-list system in the…

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Contested centenary: Remembering the May Fourth Movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities

July 4, 2019 0

Written by Els van Dongen. Image Credit: 51358-Qingdao by xiquinhosilva /Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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The difficult path of Queerness in the Age of the Postcolonial

April 19, 2018 0

Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The South Asian subcontinent saw a renewed interest in engaging with colonial history in 2017, as India and Pakistan celebrated 70…

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Bangladesh and the crisis of freedom of speech

March 21, 2018 8

Written by Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Bangladesh is a small nation in South Asia, gaining independence in 1971. After 24 years of existence under the religious…

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