Business and Politics Following the money: Political financing in Malaysia July 30, 2019 0 Written by Tricia Yeoh. Image Credit: Najib’s campaign visit to USM, 8 December 2012 by radiantjustice/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. It is important to examine how political parties are…
Business Party finances and money politics in Southeast Asia July 29, 2019 0 Written by Wolfgang Sachsenröder. Image Credit: ฮุนเซนเลือกตั้ง 29 ก.ค. 61, by Prachatai/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Problems with party funding are universal. Political activities – especially election campaigns –…
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,…
Asia A politics of hope: The new generation of Thai politicians February 22, 2019 0 Written by Thannapat Jarernpanit. Having been postponed four times by the ruling military junta, a general election will be held in Thailand on 24 March…
Corruption The implications of Najib Razak’s arrest for Malaysia: The good, the bad, and the ugly July 10, 2018 0 Written by Scott Edwards. Former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s arrest follows Malaysia’s historic general election, which saw the first change of government since independence. It…
China Five years of hunting tigers and swatting flies April 25, 2018 0 Written by Andrew Wedeman. After five years, where is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crackdown going? How significant is the establishment of the new National Supervisory Commission?…