Glad to see this piece finally out. Key takeaway: if SEA states want some form of rules-based int’l order, as they say they do, they’ll need to do something about it. If they want something else, they need to figure out what it is & put their money where their mouth is. Unless they prefer to just sit around & await their fates, hiding is going to be increasingly costly & risky. #asean#uschina https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/china-asean-us-distracted-war-ukraine-gaza-3996481
Thrilled to be included in the first-ever map+directory of the AAPI community media landscape, created by the Newmark J School's Center for Community Media!
We are currently 100% staffed by Asian immigrants; our stories have been published in Chinese, Tagalog, and Nepali!
Taiwan is the only "open" country in Asia, based on a report by Civicus. Japan and South Korea are categorized as "narrowed." As expected, Afghanistan, China and North Korea are "closed."
NARROWED: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Timor Leste
OBSTRUCTED: Indonesia, Malaysia
REPRESSED: Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, India
CLOSED: HK, Vietnam, Laos, China, Myanmar, North Korea
"..the Boston-based drug company Vertex is neither selling a transformative new treatment for cystic fibrosis in the developing world, nor allowing other local companies to produce it..."
We have seen this with #covid19 - #vaccines are STILL being hoarded by the West
Nov 15 (Reuters) - Defence ministers in #ASEAN called for an immediate #ceasefire in #Gaza and a durable solution to the crisis in #Myanmar during the opening of a regional meeting in #Jakarta on Wednesday
All ASEAN defence ministers, with the exception of Myanmar's, attended Wednesday's forum, with U.S. Defence Secretary #LloydAustin to meet counterparts later in the day. #Ukraine#Israel
The November 2023–January 2024 issue of #MekongReview, a literary magazine from, on and about #Asia, is now available online! It marks the fourth issue that I've produced since I started this job, and what a journey it's been.
The map only shows the 17 Asian cities among the top 50 cities in the world that have the most number of resident centi-millionaires. (Certainly, other such high net-worth individuals live elsewhere but not in the top 50.)
'A week-long CNA experiment... has identified a steady stream of inaccurate content on the Israel-Hamas war spreading on the platform. While the proliferation of fake news online during geopolitical tensions is not new ... analysts said the Israel-Hamas conflict takes on a different, perhaps more pernicious dimension in Southeast Asia.'
@skinnylatte Okay. I try to be very careful with non-American media. (Some places, like Azerbaijan / Armenia , I just stay away from, because there's no way I'm going to get it right)
If I were working for #ASEAN, in particular in the #Culture vertical, I would have had set up a #Fediverse account already.
This is why ASEAN is having a hard time in, well, the ASEAN region when it comes to the people. The management, and everything else, is top-down.
It should be bottom-up. It should be #grassroots not political.
To this day, after so many years, ASEAN is still a political effort. They can't even mandate to make August 8 #ASEANday as a holiday in all member nations.
They can do more if only they'll change their approach.
I'm not saying the political side should be put aside. Not at all. Rather, the focus should be to sell it to its own people. It has to matter to the common folk.
Are they even aware that gamers from the ASEAN region have been closer since 2000? They probably are not. Imagine tapping that… missed opportunities.
I’m researching Mastodon accounts with huge follower numbers and looking for help.
In the US George Takei has over 400000 followers, in Germany Eugen Rochko has over 300000 and Jan Böhmermann nearly 200000, in the UK Stephen Fry has over 100000.
Know any other big accounts? Any over 500K? Any in #Asia? Who's big in #France, or #Spain, or #Italy, or #Argentina? Who is the most followed woman? Did most of them take their followers from Twitter?
@taylorlorenz 170k - potentially most followed woman? I think most followers probably came from Twitter @Popehat 112k - potentially most followed lawyer? Again, most followers probably came from Twitter @ivory 101k - mobile app for Mastodon, converted a huge user base after their 3rd-party Twitter app was shutdown