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• Asia

  Asia: Must-haves for the latest global Islamic TV channel

  28 September, by NASIR Abbas

  The leaders of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan have decided to set up an English TV channel in order to ’remove misgivings’ about Islam and project the ’correct’ religious values. What better moment to ask ourselves exactly what misgivings, and what values we are talking about here...

  “President Erdogan, PM Mahatir [sic] and myself had a meeting today [Wednesday] in which we decided our 3 countries would jointly start an English language channel dedicated to confronting the challenges posed by (...)

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  India: Beware the nuclear con man

  28 September, by HOODBHOY Pervez

  INDIAN leaders of unbridled ambition and meagre wisdom have recently suggested that India might revoke its earlier policy of No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons. They should be forgiven. To stay in the public eye, South Asia’s street-smart politicians need to make a lot of noise all the time. (...)

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  Sri Lanka: Muslims and the Left Need to Defend Christians Under Attack

  23 April, by HASAN Mehdi

  FROM CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND, to Xinjiang, China, there is a war on Muslims. Many of us have spent years writing about it and condemning it. But let’s be clear: From the Middle East to parts of Asia and Africa, there is a war on Christians too.
  On Sunday, as Sri Lanka’s minority Christian (...)

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  At Japan Convention, Dalit and Burakumin People Forge Solidarity

  11 October 2018, by YENGDE Suraj

  While the media is still abuzz with stories of the World Hindu Congress that was organised in Chicago last month, a lesser discussed, yet important event took place in the history of Dalit and Burakumin peoples’ struggle. In a historic convention, the two oppressed outcaste groups of India and (...)

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  Robot workers will lead to surge in slavery in south-east Asia, report finds

  12 July 2018, by KELLY Annie

  Research shows risk of trafficking will rise, as automation pushes low-skilled workers into ‘race to the bottom’ for jobs
  Robots will slash millions of jobs and create an upswing in trafficking and slavery across south-east Asia, research claims.
  In a report launched on Thursday, supply-chain (...)

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  Queer Marxism in Mainland China and Taiwan

  24 June 2017, by DENTON Kirk A., TAN Jia

  In the past two decades, the term “queer” has gained increasing academic momentum in China studies across disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, film and media studies, communication, and literary studies. What does it mean to queer China studies, and where is this emergent field (...)

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  Queer Marxism in Two Chinas

  20 July 2016, by KEMP Brandon

  Brandon Kemp discusses Petrus Liu’s latest book arguing that Queer Theory and Marxism belong together and bringing this to bear on gender in Chinese and Taiwanese culture.
  Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015) 256pp
  Petrus Liu’s latest book represents an (...)

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  Washington Debates the Pivot to Asia

  19 February 2013, by BELLO Walden

  Over the last two years, the Obama administration has executed what the president has termed the “Pivot to Asia” strategy, whereby the United States’ global military force posture is being reconfigured to focus on the Asia-Pacific region as Washington’s central front.
  Movement has been rapid, with (...)

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  Charting change

  October 2009, by DIXIT Kunda

  From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real.
  Namgye Chumbi was weeding his potato garden in the village of Phakding in Nepal’s Khumbu region below Mount Everest on the morning of 4 August 1985. Because of the monsoon season, there were not too many trekkers (...)

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  “Rivals”: Misconceiving Asia

  September 2009, by VANAIK Achin

  Review of Bill Emmott, Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan will Shape Our Next Decade, Allen Lane: London 2008, £20, hardback 314 pp, 978 1 846 14009 9.
  The mass of recent literature on the ‘rise of Asia’ largely focuses on the implications of this development for the (...)

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  Asia’s Sorry Human Rights Record

  19 June 2009, by Correspondent(s)

  Asian values apparently don’t protecting individuals from exploitation
  Asian governments variously proclaim commitment to Asian values, Confucian, Islamic or Marxist principles or the rule of statute law. Or all of them. But when it comes to human rights, to enforcing laws intended to protect (...)

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  Clinton leaves for Asia

  16 February 2009, by AFP

  WASHINGTON - US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton left for Asia on Sunday for her maiden mission as the chief US diplomat after pledging to strengthen US ties with the region.
  High among her priorities are finding ways to tackle the global economic crisis and climate change as well as prevent (...)

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  APEC: A tool to screw the poor

  12 January 2007, by CHENG Eva

  While starving Australia’s public education and health services of funding, the Coalition government is planning to spend well over $200 million on the annual talk shop dressed up as a “leaders’ summit” of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) scheduled for Sydney this September.
  Is the (...)

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  Nuclear Clouds Gather Over the Asia Pacific

  26 November 2005, by BIDWAI Praful

  The Asia-Pacific region has not only emerged as one of the main engines of the world economy, it has also taken the global centre-stage in developments pertaining to nuclear weapons, in efforts to acquire a capability to make them, and in nuclear conflicts among regional powers as well as with (...)

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  ASIENHAUS / Asia House and the German Asia Foundation

  4 October 2005, by Asien Haus, German Asia Foundation

  Self-presentation of the Asienhaus and the German Asia Foundation taken from their website October 4, 2005.
  Asia House - General Information For a Better Understanding of the Asian Region
  The largest part of humanity lives in Asia. East and Southeast Asia are currently experiencing (...)

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  Declaration of Phnom Penh

  9 October 2004, by Socialist International

  1. The Socialist International Asia-Pacific Committee reaffirms its commitment to working toward a form of globalisation that benefits and promotes the well-being of all the people of this critical region of the world.
  This means deepening the work of establishing and strengthening (...)

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  Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southwest Asia

  May 2004, by CALKINS Laura M.

  Paul Greenough and Ann Lowenhaupt Tsing (Eds.). Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southwest Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 428 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3150-0 (cloth); 0-8223-3149-7 (paper). US$89.95 cloth; US$24.95 paper. Acid-free paper.
  Reviewed by (...)