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ASEAN Wraps up Summit
PHNOM PENH — Foreign ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations wrapped up their annual meetings in Phnom Penh with a plea for peace in the South China Sea, warnings for the junta in Myanmar […]
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Foreign Correspondence
ASEAN’s Place, a podcast with Carl Thayer
Last weekend’s U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit ended with the usual round of handshakes, backslapping and a watered-down joint statement, which again failed to name countries of concern, China and Russia. Carl Thayer, Emeritus Professor at the University of […]
Foreign Correspondence
War & Hypersonics, a podcast with Carl Schuster
Carl Schuster has been an adjunct faculty instructor at Hawaii Pacific University since 2000, after retiring as a captain with the United States Navy, and he has since earned an academic reputation for his research […]
Foreign Correspondence
Workers Rights, a podcast with Dave Welsh
Independent trade unions in Thailand and Myanmar are currently doing it hard, with authoritarian regimes in both countries taking a dim view of labor activism and using the courts to silence complaints over plant closures […]
Foreign Correspondence
Mekong Drought, a podcast with Brian Eyler
The lower Mekong River is entering its fourth year of drought with poor rainfall, climate change, and hydropower dams producing the worst conditions along Southeast Asia’s largest waterway in more than 60 years, threatening the […]