Across Southeast Asia, interest in German is on the rise as the German government taps increasing numbers of the region's skilled workers to tackle the country's severe labor shortages.
LOMBOK, Indonesia — Suhardi, 43, glides across a technicolor coral garden. Freediving down to the seafloor, he scoops up a handful of sand that he sprinkles over the reef. The reef becomes a blur of color as reef fish scurry from all four corners to see what delicacies can be found among the falling grains.
One of the world’s largest palm oil companies appears to have overseen a network of companies responsible for deforestation of tens of thousands of hectares, according to a new investigation published by The Gecko Project, a London-based investigative journalism organization. Indonesian conglomerate First Resources, like many...
The two books of this review article are valuable contributions to the history of racial theorizing in the colonial setting, in this case the Malay peninsula (Manickam) and the Dutch East Indies (Sysling)....
JAKARTA — Indonesian fisheries authorities have welcomed as “better than nothing” a new policy by neighboring Singapore that should in theory help stem the smuggling of lobster larvae out of Indonesian waters. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has since Oct. 1 required traders in the city-state who are reexporting live...
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Doublethink Lab and the China In The World network present the China Index, the first cross-regional project to objectively measure and visualize the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s overseas influence through comparable data....
Featuring a guest post from the author, Solidaritas, Kate Walton focused specifically on amplifying stories about women's rights, gender, and feminism in the Asia Pacific.
Their own memories fading, former World War Two sex slaves seek justice in their twilight years.
Fascinating field notes from genuinely one of the most contested and policed spaces of public expression and art, slash fanfiction. The Chinese example here is well-observed, but to a large extent it happens here in Southeast Asia as well to varying degrees (e.g. IP bans of known fandom-heavy spaces are common)
Some species are protected in Indonesia, but the black market for them persists. Collectors who pay thousands of dollars for a specimen say only they truly know the butterflies’ value. The programme Undercover Asia finds out what is at stake.
CNA looks at how the events have unfolded since Wednesday morning (Jul 12), when the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau first said Transport Minister S Iswaran was assisting with an investigation.
sharing it here because it mentioned SEA as another under-studied multilingual region, and we share the same issues:...
cross-posted from: monyet.cc/post/73043#TootSEA...
The Netherlands announced a major repatriation of nearly 500 looted cultural objects dating to the colonial era.
The collective sale and conservation of Golden Mile Complex will restore a visionary building designed for a “new look Singapore”......
Japan has offered numerous apologies to Korea since the two countries normalized relations in 1965, but recent polls show most Koreans do not believe Japan is truly repentant over its past — so what has gone wrong, and what can be done better?...
A Twitter user highlighted striking similarities between the Filipino, Indonesian and Malaysian languages in a viral TikTok video. The video showed three
I’ve wondered why, even as of early 1970s, you frequently find both "星加坡" and "新加坡" for the name of #Singapore (星洲 only much more rarely by this time) in Chinese, sometimes side by side in titles in the same journal (image from index of articles in 南洋文摘 1972). I didn’t know that the name wasn’t...
Maps can be very touchy subjects. That’s why Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie.
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(...) this is much older than the famous monuments of Borobudur (8th century) in Indonesia and Angkor Wat (12th century) in Cambodia, making Sungai Batu and the larger Bujang Valley complex it is part of the oldest civilisation in Southeast Asia....
Last time, we talked about the origins of the Manila Carnival and how we found our first queen, in so many senses of the word, in Pura Garcia Villanueva Kalaw. Now, in episode 23.2, we’ll follow the Carnival as it comes into its own. This is Part Two: Becoming Miss Philippines, 1909 to 1926....
