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"We are drawn into the lives of four characters, each with a separate monologue"

"Many were emotionally triggered by this part-testimonial, part-theatrical, and part-documentary theatre"

The play highlights "raw and conflicted stories based on real lives in the drug war".

"Tao Po invites us to listen to four people’s intimate accounts of the [Philippines'] drug war."

Introducing a series of short reflections on Tao Po, a one-person play that grapples with the Philippines' drug war.

The second reunion of the 2016 anti-Ahok rally was a show of force from FPI ahead of elections.

Some big-picture reflections on regime type, ethnic diversity, and ethnic exclusion.

How can Thailand “move on” from a decade of mass political contestation—unrest which was halted, but hardly resolved, by large-scale state violence and the military’s eventual seizure of power?

On the the misuse of western historical sources in the search for Suvarnabhumi.

A proposal for marriage registration cards is an invitation for more moral surveillance of Indonesian citizens.

The ‘new Malaysia’ is viewed with sceptical eyes in poor rural communities in Johor.

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