British companies and investors are profiting from gold mining, gas extraction and palm oil plantations in West Papua, while the British government supports the Indonesian military through arms ...

Governments in Asia should use the Iran crisis as an opportunity to double down on decarbonisation and deepen regional ...

Japan’s prostitution regime combines formal prohibition with regulatory tolerance, producing a system that criminalises solicitation while leaving buyers largely untouched. The arrests of women ...

Dr Ming Gao is a Researcher in the Department of History at Lund University and is affiliated with the Lund University Profile Area Human Rights. His work explores gender, feminism, and the legacies ...

Kurniawan Arif Maspul is a researcher and interdisciplinary writer focusing on Islamic diplomacy and Southeast Asian political thought. He holds an M.Ed in Advanced Teaching, an MBA, and an MA in ...

Vietnam’s drive for faster growth is exposing the social costs of top-down policymaking without consultation, accountability ...

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Australia’s economic security is not meaningfully threatened by China’s investment in Guinea’s Simandou iron ore mine, as Australia remains a low-cost, indispensable supplier to Chinese steelmakers ...

China’s anti-scam campaign in Southeast Asia has produced enforcement successes, including arrests, repatriations and expanded regional cooperation. But its selective and security-centric focus ...