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, by COCA Nithin
At the end of 2021 in Asia, two hard-fought movements saw their efforts bear fruit as workers saw victories in India and Indonesia against government moves to reduce labour rights in the name of economic growth. In India, protests led by farmers, who for more than a year occupied streets across (...)
, by LIAN Flora
Protests against the coup mean hospitals and schools are on the brink of collapse, while workers have left their homes to avoid arrest and interrogation
When hundreds of thousands of workers across the country walked out of their jobs in protest at the military’s seizure of power in Myanmar on (...)
, by SCHAPER Michael
Greens often prosper in federal systems, in richer countries with service-based economies, in situations where environmental issues are part of mainstream political debates, and in electorates with large numbers of young, highly-educated members drawn from the middle class. If this is the case, (...)
, by LE Lam
Southeast Asian domestic labourers often migrate to wealthier countries where they are excluded from labour protections and left vulnerable to abuse. While COVID-19 has made labour conditions worse, some migrant workers have found their own ways to resist.
In April, nine Vietnamese women (...)
, by ADEGEEST Don-Alvin
The world’s biggest fashion companies are yet to agree to renew a long term Bangladesh safety accord eight years after the Rana Plaza disaster. Yet for all the good the accord can accomplish, companies including Zara and H&M are holding out because of direct liabilities. Only five of the (...)
, by Regional Migrants’ Agenda
What is needed for a world without forced migration? This is the question that migrant groups from across the Asia-Pacific region have asked and presented on during a recent review of the UN’s Global Compact on Migration (GCM).
In this month’s “Voices from the South,” we present the “Regional (...)
, by MY Hoang Hao Tra
The social and environmental impact of the Boten–Vientiane Express Railway in Laos
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the intent to connect the world by strengthening infrastructure development. In the wake of this announcement, the Chinese (...)
, by ABRUZZINI Bibbi, SINGH Jyotsna M.
From Nepal to India, Thailand to Myanmar, people are taking to the streets – or social media – to demand change.
Once again, hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets and to digital highways. From Kathmandu to Delhi, moving east to Bangkok and Yangon, a wave of discontent is demanding that (...)
, by Focus on the Global South
As 2020 draws to a close, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from abating. Infections have spiked again in numerous countries, and the emergence of a new, more contagious strain of the SARS-COV-2 virus is causing renewed stress among over-stretched exhausted doctors, nurses and health-care providers (...)
As states continue to fail in reaching out to the neediest sectors of society amid the Covid-19 pandemic, civil society and mass-based organizations in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines have urged their governments to guarantee the right to food and nutrition of (...)
Trade Justice Pilipinas statement on the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, posted by Focus on the Global South :
In the midst of a global pandemic and despite strong peoples’ opposition, governments are set to sign today the Regional Comprehensive (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
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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