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Amritsar Liquor Tragedy Is Just the Tip of a Wider and Worsening Tragedy of Alcohol-Related Deaths in India By , May 19, 2025

While the tragic death of about 23 persons in Amritsar district of Punjab and the serious condition of several others has understandably evoked a lot of concern, this must be seen as only a partial although very tragic reflection of …

Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)Stories—Japan, East Asia, and I By and , May 15, 2025

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This is a conversation between Japanese artist Mio Okido and art historian Asato Ikeda, centered on Okido’s exhibition Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)stories—Japan, East Asia, and I at the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin. The dialogue examines Okido’s exploration …

Attempts to Introduce Gene-Edited Rice Varieties Opposed in India By , May 07, 2025

India has a good record of standing up for safety of food by opposing GM crops, particularly in the context of food. This is why despite relentless lobbying by powerful corporate groups to introduce GM varieties for food crops like …

The UK-India Free Trade Deal: A Corporate Coup By , May 07, 2025

It’s a charming British summer for corporations, following the long-awaited UK-India trade deal signed after three years of negotiation. The Labour Party-led British government has hailed the agreement as “the best deal India has ever agreed to, providing businesses with …

Indigenous Leader’s Court Win Halts One of Australia’s ‘Dirtiest Gas Projects’ By , September 28, 2022
Whitewashing at Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral By , September 27, 2022
Climate Crisis and the Age of the Super-Typhoon: Storms Batter, Flood Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Japan and Shanghai By , September 21, 2022
China Ready to Make Efforts for ‘Peaceful Reunification’ with Taiwan By , September 21, 2022
“I Do Not Think I Know”: Scott Morrison’s Submarine Deception By , September 20, 2022
Asia’s Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific By , September 16, 2022
India-China Border Dispute: Big Picture of Disengagement in Ladakh By , September 16, 2022
Falling FX Reserves Herald Asia Financial Crisis 2.0 By , September 16, 2022
Dunderheaded Diplomacy: Australia’s Funding Offer to the Solomon Islands By , September 08, 2022
We Can Breathe Again. Philippines to Lift the Mandatory Use of Face Mask Outdoors By , September 07, 2022
Japan’s Nuclear Revival in a Race Against Time By , August 31, 2022
Australia’s Foreign Policy and the Albanese Government’s First 100 Days By , August 31, 2022
Beggars in Surplus: Australia’s University Gangsters By , August 31, 2022
Australia: Shaq Dunks the Voice By , August 30, 2022
World of Trade: South Korea Signs $2.25 Billion Deal with Russia Nuclear Company By , August 26, 2022
China’s Growing Military Might By , August 26, 2022
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Finally Jailed By , August 26, 2022
Explainer: Scott Morrison Was Sworn in to Several Portfolios Other Than Prime Minister During the Pandemic. How Can this be Done? By , August 16, 2022
Peaceful Protests for a Revolutionary Change in Sri Lanka By , August 10, 2022
Moscow Prioritises Ties with Myanmar By , August 10, 2022
US-Philippines Military Alliance Could be Detrimental to the Philippines in the Outbreak of Taiwan Conflict By , August 05, 2022
Australia and the Road to Nuclear War By , August 01, 2022
For Residents of Jakarta’s Port District, Coal Is the Neighbor No One Wants By , August 01, 2022
Early Meiji Japan and Public History: Ports, Public Memory, Gateways to Understanding through Photography By and , July 22, 2022
Popular Opposition to Wickremesinghe’s Election Could Spill Over Into Violence in Sri Lanka By , July 22, 2022
Inside Australian Labor’s Assange Game Plan By , July 20, 2022
Philippines Returns to Full Face-to-Face Classes After Two Years of Distance Learning, COVID Vaccination Not Mandatory By , July 18, 2022
Tanks Deployed Near Parliament and State of Emergency Declared in Sri Lanka By , July 14, 2022
Sri Lanka: A Victory for a Non-violent People’s Movement By , July 14, 2022
India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output By , July 12, 2022
Blinken’s Gone Bonkers: Russia Is Alleviating, Not Worsening, Sri Lanka’s Crisis! By , July 11, 2022
Australia Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case By , July 11, 2022
New Australian Labor Government Fails on Nukes, Poverty & Climate By , July 07, 2022
Terms of Condescension: The Language of Australia’s “Pacific Family” By , July 03, 2022
Indonesian President Joko Widodo Wades into Russia-Ukraine War Mire By , July 01, 2022
Route 501 – Australia’s Deportation Shame By , July 01, 2022
Creating Cold War Conditions in Asia Isn’t Easy By , June 30, 2022
US Outlines Continued Primacy Over Asia at 2022 Shangri-La Dialogue By , June 30, 2022
Sri Lanka Suspends Fuel Sales Amid Economic Collapse; Asks Russians for Help By , June 28, 2022
Fukushima’s Dueling Museums By , June 28, 2022
The Brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India By , June 27, 2022
Sharif Flipping Pakistan’s US and China Relations: New Leader Moving Closer to US and Further from China By , June 15, 2022
Indonesian Political Parties Build Close Relations with China Despite Their Anti-communist Ideology By , June 15, 2022
Australia: Renewable Energy or Reliable Energy — But Not Both By , June 14, 2022
Sri Lanka’s Principled Neutrality Ensured Its Survival in the Economic Crisis Thus Far By , June 13, 2022
An Appalling Slur on the Civilisation State That Is India By , June 08, 2022
Filipino President-elect Bongbong Marcos Unlikely to Ignore Territorial Dispute with China By , June 08, 2022
Washington’s Shifting Taiwan Policy Aims for an Asian “Ukraine” By , June 08, 2022
Will Australia’s New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Embrace or Rebuff the Quad? By , June 08, 2022
The Legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the People’s Republic of China: Mapping the Official Discourses of Memory By , June 03, 2022
Why Imran Khan Alleges the US for the Fall of His Government By , June 02, 2022
Sunshine by Day, Water by Night: Indonesia Could Pair Its Vast Solar and Hydro Storage to Decarbonise the Country By and , June 02, 2022
China Prepares Launch of Most Advanced Aircraft Carrier on ‘Dragon Boat Festival’ By , June 02, 2022
Dutton’s Record: Building the Surveillance State in Australia By , June 01, 2022
Election Gambit: Australia, Sri Lanka and Politicising Refugees By , May 31, 2022
Reactionary Succession in Australia: Peter Dutton, New Opposition Leader By , May 30, 2022
Free Antonio Tolentino By , May 27, 2022
Video: US Sees Anti-China Setback after Philippine Elections By , May 26, 2022
Introduction: Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials By , , and , May 26, 2022
Devastated by a Typhoon, Community Foresters in the Philippines Find Little Support By , May 25, 2022
Bruising the Major Parties: Arise Australia’s Independents By , May 23, 2022
Sri Lanka: Protesters Demand Regime Change, Demilitarisation of the State By , May 16, 2022
G20 Bali 2022: Why Excluding Russia Is Not the Best Course of Action By and , May 16, 2022
Son of Late Dictator Sustains Lead in Surveys. The Philippines in the Next Six Years By , May 09, 2022
Bongbong Politics: Rehabilitating the Marcos Family. Philippine Elections. By , May 08, 2022
Noise Matters: Wind Farms, Nuisance and the Law By , May 04, 2022
Panic in Kooyong: The Threat to the Australian Liberal Party By , May 03, 2022
Australia’s Pacific Neglect: Distractions from Climate Change Security By , May 02, 2022
Cambodia on Middle Path Between China and Vietnam By , April 29, 2022
Fibbing on Anzac Day By , April 26, 2022
Global Hibakusha: The Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By , April 26, 2022
Analysis: Myanmar’s Gemstone Riches Bring Poverty and Environmental Destruction By , April 26, 2022
China’s Security Pact with the Solomon Islands: The Misbegotten Notion that the South Pacific Is a US Sphere of Influence By , April 25, 2022
Australia: Lawyer Bernard Collaery’s War Against Secret Trials By , April 22, 2022
Taiwan Gives Citizens Survival Handbook in Case of Chinese Invasion By , April 15, 2022
What’s Happening in Sri Lanka and How Did the Economic Crisis Start? By , April 15, 2022
The “China Threat” and the Solomon Islands By , April 14, 2022
Asian Fault Lines of Biden’s War on Russia By , April 13, 2022
US Approves $95 Million Patriot Missile Systems Boost for Taiwan By , April 08, 2022
The Pentagon’s Strategy for World Domination: Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa By , April 06, 2022