In 2017, the Myanmar military supported by militias launched a campaign against the Rohingya, Muslim minorities living in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, murdering thousands and forcing 700,000 to flee Rakhine state for Bangladesh. In March 2022, the […]
On February 14, 2024, Prabowo Subianto was elected the 8th President of Indonesia following his role as Defence Minister in 2019. He is assuming the leadership of the largest economy in Southeast Asia at a […]
The Little Red Dot has a grey-colored problem. Singapore, one of the four economies dubbed “Asian Tigers,” is in danger of experiencing a population transition towards an economy of the elderly. The combined effect of […]
On February 1, 2020, the military junta in Myanmar (also known as the Tatmadaw) staged a coup and took up the reins from the rightfully voted members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party. […]
On January 20, 2022, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Belt and Road in Global Perspective Project, and the York Centre for Asian Research hosted a panel discussion on the book […]
Introduction 1872-1898 marked a crucial point in the history of the Philippines, as it encapsulated the spread of the Propaganda Movement which sought to expose the atrocities of the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines […]
The socioeconomic precarity of low-wage migrants hired to do dirty, dangerous, and demeaning work[1] in Singapore is well-established; marginalized migrants are exploited by numerous industries that rely on cheap labour. In response, beleaguered civil society […]
Abstract: Baba Malay is a mixed language of Malay, Hokkien (a Chinese dialect spoken in Southern China, primarily in Fujian Province), and smatterings of European languages such as English and Portuguese. Over the years, Baba […]
Abstract: In 1965, after a tumultuous two-year union, Singapore was unilaterally expelled from the Federation of Malaysia and unwillingly became its own sovereign state overnight; however, whether Singapore existed as a nation remained of question. […]
Abstract: In 1992, three French film productions were released: The Lover (L’Amant) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Indochine directed by Regis Wargnier, and Dien Bien Phu directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer. An analysis of the three films’ […]
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