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Ethical questions around Dutch soldiers’ actions on which the film reflects are less urgent in Indonesian films.

The economy, and domestic and foreign policy will be in sharp focus at the Thai Update 2021 at The Australian National University (ANU).

This is not a series of incidental disasters, but the result of structural problems related to capitalist expansion, climate change and recurring global epidemics

Southeast Asian citizens are not providing carte blanche to their governments to wind back civil liberties and political rights.

...garment employers regularly used COVID-19 as a pretext to target union members. The pandemic has been weaponised to get rid of trade unions.

Sovereignty concerns arise over foreign ownership of critical national assets, and foreign control of service provision in critical sectors.

Streicher spent time researching this troubled region talking to local civilians, activists, journalists, academics, as well as military conscripts and senior officers.

A personal tragedy illustrates a larger disaster playing out across the city.

...creating spaces for civil society should be integral to post-pandemic recovery and reconstruction plans.

On their 100th anniversary the CCP received two congratulatory messages from Ethnic Armed organizations (EAOs) in northern Myanmar are noteworthy

...with COVID-19, and a coup, predicting the course of Myanmar’s future may best be put in the hands of the astrologers.

If stories of shock are transferred to younger generations, so is the narrative of resilience that their elders pass down.