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Published in: openSecuritySouthern FireIn the past year, reporting from Thailand has been dominated by the drama in Bangkok. The confrontation between...
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Published in: HomeParadise lost?To most people Fiji is known as an island paradise: white sandy beaches and crystal clear turquoise water. But...
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Published in: HomeThe Hobbit and New Zealand's heritage industry
Gollum has succeeded where politicians have failed, in replacing a colonial narrative with a myth that changes the...
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The traces of optimism that had surrounded Burma’s first notionally democratic experience for two decades vanish on...
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Published in: openSecurityNew fears of xenophobia send migrants fleeing in South Africa
New rumours of xenophobic reprisals after the World Cup send foreign migrants fleeing in South Africa. A new Amnesty...
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Published in: HomeThailand's road to reconciliation
Thailand's proposed course of reconciliation is contaminated by the dysfunctional socio-political system that caused...
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Published in: HomeBurma's authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010
The Burmese junta’s sophisticated and ruthless project of reinvention - “SPDC 2.0” - is preparing the way for an...
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Published in: HomeVietnam and China: shoals ahead
A rumble of popular discontent in Vietnam over territorial and environmental issues signals a new phase in the old...
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Published in: HomePapua: the elusive dialogue
An initiative to address the complex conflicts in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua seeks to learn...
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Published in: openIndiaReimagining democracy - India more than counts
The founder of openDemocracy on a mind-changing trip to India.
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Tehran’s rulers have pushed back the protest-wave that followed the fraudulent election of June 2009. But the...
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Published in: openSecuritySpain agrees to take in former Guantanamo Bay inmates
Spanish government agrees to house former terrorist suspects. Sydney bomb plotters sentenced. Tymoshenko accuses...
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Published in: openSecurityIran raises nuclear tension with long-range missile test
Iran raises nuclear tension with missile test launch. Israel reacts angrily to Tzipi Livni arrest warrant issued by...
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Published in: openSecurityKiribati islands plan exodus faced with rising sea levels
Kiribati announces plans at Copenhagen for “practical and rational” exodus due to climate change. Violence and...
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Kevin Rudd’s apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' highlights the difficulties of dealing with Britain's imperial...
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