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asia & pacificDebates and articles from across the openDemocracy website that discuss or are relevant to Asia and the Pacific.
What connects elections, democracy, and poor people's
life-chances? India offers an answer, says this reflection published on 13 May 2001
Beijing’s months of crisis may come to seem the product of a masterly public-relations campaign
A devastating cyclone alters the political outlook days before the junta's constitutional poll
Vietnam’s official memory has no place for Hoang Minh Chinh, an honourable critic who embraced democracy
Kathmandu's election surprise sets a critical challenge for the new Maoist government
On 17 April 1975, Cambodia’s people moved from war into a four-year nightmare, recalled in James Fenton's poem and David Hayes's fragments
An electoral earthquake reflects the distance between Kathmandu's elite and Nepal's people
The Himalayan kingdom makes a tryst with democracy - and its people surprise themselves
A Tibetan activist finds a novel way of subverting - and irritiating - China's power (archive)
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thread of degenerate war and military impunity links atrocities in the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts
A historic lawsuit charges the Chinese
authorities with genocide in Tibet. Tenzin Tsundue tells openDemocracy about it (archive)
A long-term acquaintance with Japan's school system offers unique insight into its good and bad points
The new prime minister's official apology to the "stolen generations" of indigenous Australians may have made a political trap for itself
Dynastic succession might prove a route to
political reform
The future of Burma is being decided on Rangoon's streets, as these stunning photos reveal
Burma's second-wave "people power" recalls the inspiration of Aung San Suu Kyi (archive)
openDemocracy's columnist meets the world's most powerful woman
The disturbing effects of Indonesia's biofuel boom
Japan's ruling party is imploding - and that is good news for Japanese democracy
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