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Published in: HomeDoing it the Malaysian wayEver since the wake-up call of 2008, and with more and more Malaysians online, the ruling coalition is well aware...
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Published in: HomeBack to the future: the rebirth of a classical approach to democracy and education in a post-modern societyEducation – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The IMF on inequality: beyond organised hypocrisy?So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that...
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Published in: HomeTrade union building in MyanmarBasically all unions demand a stronger sanctioning capacity for the Arbitration Council.
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Published in: HomeChina and the embarrassment of western democracyThe trouble for democracy does not come from Beijing, or from globalisation, or from abroad, or, in Britain, from...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow to make America great again? Bully Mexico.As President Trump concludes his first week in the White House with extremely protectionist policies, there will be...
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Published in: HomeZhou Youguang, the real hero of modern ChinaThe architect of China's literacy revolution maintained an open-minded curiosity well into his second century.
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Published in: HomeWhy do people go to cat cafes? Loneliness and relaxation in a time of neoliberalismAfter I began researching the explosion of ‘cat cafes’ in post-economic bubble Japan, I discovered an entire healing...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn community philanthropy, relying on existing local institutions is the answer‘Assuming the fact that local communities have a better understanding of what their exigencies and needs are, is...
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Published in: HomeThe Lady in the broken mirror: the politics of identity in MyanmarGlobal icon Aung San Suu Kyi faces the everyday challenges of governing a nation whose ethnic tensions threaten to...
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Published in: HomeYoung defenders: voiceless dissenters or force for good?Human Rights Day call. Young human rights defenders will only be safe when there first exists, worldwide, public...
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Published in: HomeCan Cambodia overcome its ruptured past?Decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide, Cambodia remains a fractured nation with an untold history. An emotive new...
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Published in: HomeLost in time: Hada, an Inner Mongolian dissidentTwenty years ago, a bookseller was turned into a living ghost. Amid the great changes shaking China, America,...
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Published in: HomeResisting dissolution: the stalemate between Hong Kong civil society and China’s central governmentChina’s latest interpretation of Hong Kong’s ‘basic law’ reaffirms an important tenet of Beijing’s position: any...
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Published in: 50.50A long road: domestic violence law in ChinaAfter 20 years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, China now has its first domestic violence law. The...
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Published in: HomeAmidst Trumpian disorder, China eyes up its opportunityMao once observed, “everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent!” Will China prosper in...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy and education in MalaysiaI believe that education can be improved through technology, because technology ensures that a student in the...
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Published in: HomeRescuing democracy from the harms of hate speechThe tale of two places of worship, in the United States and Indonesia, suggests that fighting actual discrimination...
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Published in: HomeWhat will happen when China’s future is today?The bright national vision promoted by China's ruling party has a dramatic twist.
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Published in: HomeThai youthful thinking on education and democracyA message from Thai youth to the World Forum for Democracy 2016 on ‘Democracy and equality – does education...
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