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In Southeast Asia like in many other developing regions, a large segment of the population don’t have access to the Internet and electronic devices.
In Southeast Asia multiple streaming companies are vying for market share.
To mitigate the dissemination of medical hoaxes, Southeast asian governments have taken various approaches.
As new citizenship law will further discriminate against people on religious basis in India’s north-eastern Assam, local activists are uniting across the region to help distressed residents.
Yothu Yindi’s music introduced the world to the Yolŋu clan traditions of northeast Arnhem Land. But few listeners know these songs echo long histories of engagement with Southeast Asian visitors.
Electrifying transport needs bigger changes than another high-end electric car.
New research outlines how the ancestors of modern humans interbred with several archaic human groups on the passage from Africa to Australia.
A spatial analysis of India’s election results shows a unique geographical footprint of the BJP vote and how its recent progression follows obvious geographic patterns.
Brunei’s new anti-gay Sharia laws are the harshest in the world. Yet few countries have publicly condemned them, and an international boycott could backfire.
New research looked at human impacts on more than 5,000 threatened species and found that a quarter of them have almost nowhere left to go to escape from the threats posed by human development.
For decades, Bangladesh had a very vibrant – and highly political – rock scene. But the genre is struggling to survive the country’s crackdown on dissent and increasing Islamic conservatism.
Many conversions of Hindu women in Pakistan are harnessed as a means to an end and not necessarily the initial objective.
Koro is widely believed to be a culturally localised delusion. But a theory that it’s a fight-or-flight reflex might be corroborated by studying traditional healing treatments in Indonesia.
In the 1800s, a group of Southeast Asians were taken to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia, by an English merchant. Their descendants are seeking Indigenous status from Australia.
While many of its Asian neighbours are striving to get smoking under control, Indonesia is the stubborn exception.
The measure of women’s political advancement isn’t the number of female leaders, but the changes they make to everyday women’s lives.
In voicing youthful outrage over inequality and violence, Bangladeshi rappers are creating a powerful form of protest music — just as American MCs have done for 40 years.
Southeast Asian countires have a goal to integrate their higher education network to give young generations a truly regional experience. Is it possible?
Dark days lie ahead as democracy is dismantled.
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Assistant Professor of Communication Studies College of Arts and Sciences Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication Studies, Northern State University
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Research Associate, Transnational Organised Crime at Sea, University of Bristol
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Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Non-Traditional Security Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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The University of Western Australia
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