Foreign Correspondence

Podcast: Philip Bowring

Long before there were the nation states of Southeast Asia, the region was dominated by a series of ancient empires. This legacy of the region, which lasted centuries and still manifests itself in some ways […]

Foreign Correspondence

Press Freedom In Asia Slips

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Nearly half of the twenty countries with the least amount of press freedom in the world are located in the Asia-Pacific, according to Reporters Without Borders’ 2013 World Press Freedom Index. Of […]

Foreign Correspondence

Poverty & Politics in SE Asia

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Populist economics is on the risein Southeast Asia. Politicians have been actively adopting policies that aim to impress upon the poor that governments are doing something, however trivial, to improve their […]