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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.

A video platform from Engage Media that seeks to highlight filmmakers and video content from the Asia Pacific region....

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....

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.

Their own memories fading, former World War Two sex slaves seek justice in their twilight years.

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)

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.

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.

sharing it here because it mentioned SEA as another under-studied multilingual region, and we share the same issues:...

The Netherlands announced a major repatriation of nearly 500 looted cultural objects dating to the colonial era.

The collective sale and conservation of Golden Mile Complex will restore a visionary building designed for a “new look Singapore”......

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?...

A Twitter user highlighted striking similarities between the Filipino, Indonesian and Malaysian languages in a viral TikTok video. The video showed three

I’ve wondered why, even as of early 1970s, you frequently find both "星加坡" and "新加坡" for the name of #Singapore (星洲 only much more rarely by this time) in Chinese, sometimes side by side in titles in the same journal (image from index of articles in 南洋文摘 1972). I didn’t know that the name wasn’t...

Maps can be very touchy subjects. That’s why Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie.

(...) this is much older than the famous monuments of Borobudur (8th century) in Indonesia and Angkor Wat (12th century) in Cambodia, making Sungai Batu and the larger Bujang Valley complex it is part of the oldest civilisation in Southeast Asia....

Last time, we talked about the origins of the Manila Carnival and how we found our first queen, in so many senses of the word, in Pura Garcia Villanueva Kalaw. Now, in episode 23.2, we’ll follow the Carnival as it comes into its own. This is Part Two: Becoming Miss Philippines, 1909 to 1926....

“Indonesia and Malaysia have managed to keep rates of primary forest loss near record-low levels,” according to an analysis from the World Resources Institute. Across both countries, average yearly forest loss fell dramatically between the years 2015-2017 and 2020-2022, with Indonesia seeing a 64 percent decline and Malaysia...

It’s vital that we understand the environmental impact of e-waste and explore solutions for responsible disposal and recycling....

According to a 2023 SWS survey, 79%, or about 4 out of 5 Filipino adults agree that gay and lesbian people are 'just as trustworthy as any other Filipino'

Across Asia’s Muslim nations, Pride Month has remained muted, with LGBTQ events an easy target for religious hardliners and opportunistic politicians....

This page is a list of open access resources and primary sources related to the history of the Malay world, broadly defined including, but not limited to, the lands and peoples in what are today Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore.