Explaining Myanmar's Coup d'Etat
By JUDE WILKINSON The Burmese aphorism that Orwell wrote a trilogy on the post-colonial dictatorship of Myanmar - Burmese Days, Animal...
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Alexei Navalny: Vladimir Putin’s endless nightmare
By DJEHANE VALLY Over the past few days, diplomats from Poland, Germany and Sweden were expelled from Russia because they took part in...
Thailand Student Protests: Trouble in Paradise
As featured in Edition 37, available here. By EDEN FALL-BAILEY Thailand. A land of beaches, bucket cocktails, and pro-democracy boycotts....
Farmer Protests and Strikes in India must not go Unheard
As featured in Edition 37, available here. By CATHARINA SCHAUFLER-MENDEZ Since September 20, 2020, India has been in turmoil with no...
Battle for Academic Freedom in Turkey
by JOE HILL The Rectorate Building at Boğaziçi University Throughout January, peaceful protests, advocating academic freedom, were...
Decoding China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
Beijing has been fueling nationalist sentiment across China. If you have seen the appallingly blunt tweet on December 3rd, 2020 that...
The Covid-19 Dichotomy: The stark differences between the East and the West
By FEE MERALI Across South-Asia, people are returning to life as usual. Pubs and restaurants are open for business, non-essential shops...
Reflections on Abe Shinzo's Japanese rule
BY ARJUN KAMATH It is fast approaching a month since Abe Shinzo, the longest serving uninterrupted Prime Minister in Japanese history,...
The plight of China's Uyghur Muslims
By ROBERTO WHITE On July 19th 2020, Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador to the UK, appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. During the...
Michael Palin's North Korea Journal is a real page turner
In the new normal we find ourselves in, it's natural to procrastinate. Which usually leads to binging Netflix. In an effort to correct...
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