Uncategorized Strikes in the Indian automobile industry: The cases of Maruti Suzuki and Bajaj Auto March 19, 2018 0 Written by Joerg Nowak. The Indian automobile industry saw a series of labour unrest since 2005, culminating in the riot in a factory of market leader…
China China’s Voice for the Voiceless March 5, 2018 0 Written by Peter J. Li. In the summer of 2017, I wrote for CNN-International that China was mired in a “civil war” over dogs. Two…
China Crisis and a new chapter: What the new INGO law means for China’s expanding NGO sector July 13, 2017 0 Written by Fengshi Wu. A long-time human rights activist from Taiwan, Li Ming Che, was detained by mainland authorities on 19 March for supposedly engaging…
Conservation Can local communities be empowered for environmental protection in China? July 11, 2017 0 Written by Juha I. Uitto. The increasingly severe side effects of rapid and often reckless economic development have now become a limiting factor to China’s…
China Persecuted (almost) to the end: Why Liu Xiaobo should be allowed to leave China July 5, 2017 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. The 11-year sentence imposed on Liu Xiaobo in December 2009 dismayed anyone who had followed his career as a writer and…
China Resistance through Accommodation: the migrant worker NGOs’ strategy of transforming citizenship in China July 5, 2017 0 Written by Gosia Jakimów. With the sentencing of some prominent labour NGO activists in September 2016 to suspended prison terms, the precarious position of these…
China A new law in China is threatening the work of international NGOs January 9, 2017 0 Written by Andreas Fulda. A controversial new law regulating the activities of foreign non-profit organisations (NPOs) in China came into effect on January 1. Under the…
China Education policy in China September 9, 2016 0 Written by W. John Morgan. In June 1981, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party stated that: ‘The “cultural revolution”, May 1966 to October…
Environment Citizens and Pollution in China: Between Citizen-science, Rational Resistance and “Resigned Activism” May 13, 2016 0 Written by Anna Lora-Wainwright. China’s pollution—whether it is Beijing’s airpocalypse, “cancer villages”, controversial PX plants, recent explosions in Tianjin or a plethora of other accidents…
Taiwan Youth Will be Served January 4, 2016 3 Written by Paul R. Katz. The 2016 Taiwan elections may bear witness to a story bigger than DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s impending victory, and…