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New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.
Bongbong Marcos is the projected winner of the Philippines election. That the son of a brutal dictator has won shows how wedded the country is to dynastic politics – and image manipulation.
Virologists are beginning to assess which other viruses could have pandemic potential
The urban poor in Bangladesh’s small cities already faced food insecurity before COVID-19 – but the lockdown made affording food much harder.
From Kashmir to a controversial citizenship bill and the supression of dissent, the first year of Narendra Modi’s second term has been busy.
Intensive screening, testing, quarantine and public communication have helped keep numbers of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam very low.
Can everyday chores be hypnotically soothing? Can routines be mini-occasions? East Asian home vloggers show us that framing and pace are everything and we can find joy in simple domesticity.
For the first time, the EU has withdrawn some trade preferences for a developing country on its Everything But Arms tariffs.
How will future generations of Indians view Kashmir’s contested history?
In India’s far northeast, tensions are beginning to emerge in the 22-year peace process to end India’s longest insurgency.
With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
Since China stopped accepting Australia’s recyclable plastic, the majority of exported plastic waste is now going to developing nations in South East Asia.
The measure of women’s political advancement isn’t the number of female leaders, but the changes they make to everyday women’s lives.
Socioeconomic support is essential to help families resist the temptation of extremism.
Dolphin-watching tourism has pros and cons — so what should you think about next time you head out?
From stubborn military rule to religious ‘mobocracy’, five young democracies show signs of slipping backwards.
A new tool is tracking attacks on people for their religion, politics, caste, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation.
Why would the Philippine president risk alienating an important and generous ally?
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Virology, University of Reading
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Research Associate, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Department of Geography, Durham University
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate, Transnational Organised Crime at Sea, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII)
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Professor of East/Southeast Asian History, Boise State University
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of International Human Rights, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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PhD candidate in Law, Humboldt University of Berlin
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PhD candidate in Geography, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Cambridge
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Visiting Fellow (Malaysia Programme/ Regional Economic Studies), ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
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