My main is @cendawanita. this account is all about sharing and boosting stuff from Malaysia and SEA. I started @magASEAN to share all that stuff. Come join. Have a personal one too: @myMOAC - mainly to announce my website updates and also any quick and dirty linking
2023 ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) (acscapf.org)
JAKARTA WELCOMES YOU - We, Indonesia’s Civil Society Organizations, are honored and excited to welcome you to be part of this year’s ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF), which is going to be held on 1-3 September at Atma Jaya University, Jakarta. The theme of ACSC/APF 2023 is “Reclaiming safe...
Call for Short Historical Fiction featuring Lim Chin Siong as a minor but vital character – New Naratif (newnaratif.com)
From the link:...
Philippines sees risk of conflict over Taiwan as a 'major concern' (www.reuters.com)
The Philippines seeks to bolster its ability to address threats while underlining the need to strengthen ties with allies while pursuing an independent foreign policy, under a six-year national security policy published on Tuesday.
WHO lists Malaysian-developed hepatitis C drug as essential medicine (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
From the article:...
Cinemata Newsletter (36th ed.): Asia-Pacific diverse voices update (phplist.engagemedia.org)
A video platform from Engage Media that seeks to highlight filmmakers and video content from the Asia Pacific region....
China Index 2022 - China In The World (china-index.io)
Doublethink Lab and the China In The World network present the China Index, the first cross-regional project to objectively measure and visualize the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s overseas influence through comparable data....
Asia Undercovered Special: Women's rights, gender, and feminism in the Asia Pacific (www.undercovered.asia)
Featuring a guest post from the author, Solidaritas, Kate Walton focused specifically on amplifying stories about women's rights, gender, and feminism in the Asia Pacific.
Comfort women: Last of Japan's WW2 sex slaves sing 'forget us not' (www.bbc.com)
Their own memories fading, former World War Two sex slaves seek justice in their twilight years.
(Not So) Solitary Obsession - Danmei Fan Fiction as a Bonding Ritual (activefaults.substack.com)
Fascinating field notes from genuinely one of the most contested and policed spaces of public expression and art, slash fanfiction. The Chinese example here is well-observed, but to a large extent it happens here in Southeast Asia as well to varying degrees (e.g. IP bans of known fandom-heavy spaces are common)
‘It’s hard to be satisfied with just one’: What’s driving the black market for butterflies in Asia? (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Some species are protected in Indonesia, but the black market for them persists. Collectors who pay thousands of dollars for a specimen say only they truly know the butterflies’ value. The programme Undercover Asia finds out what is at stake.
Timeline: Transport Minister S Iswaran, property tycoon Ong Beng Seng arrested as part of CPIB probe (www.channelnewsasia.com)
CNA looks at how the events have unfolded since Wednesday morning (Jul 12), when the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau first said Transport Minister S Iswaran was assisting with an investigation.
'A Historic Moment': The Netherlands Is Repatriating Nearly 500 Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)
The Netherlands announced a major repatriation of nearly 500 looted cultural objects dating to the colonial era.
Africa’s linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism (theconversation.com)
sharing it here because it mentioned SEA as another under-studied multilingual region, and we share the same issues:...
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation (www.theverge.com)
In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources...
[WHY] Why do Koreans think Japan isn’t sorry? (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
Japan has offered numerous apologies to Korea since the two countries normalized relations in 1965, but recent polls show most Koreans do not believe Japan is truly repentant over its past — so what has gone wrong, and what can be done better?...
Golden Mile Complex: Five Decades of an Architectural Icon (biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg)
The collective sale and conservation of Golden Mile Complex will restore a visionary building designed for a “new look Singapore”......
MagASEAN & getting around the threadi/fediverse
Based on my experience so far, new posts using the hashtags tracked will show up on the microblog. Old posts aren't going to get picked up....