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Why the Hong Kong Protests Have Gone Global

November 14, 2019
The sustained protests for democracy in Hong Kong have spread to cities around the globe, challenging anyone with ties with China to take a stand. “Few protests have the potential to go global like those in Hong Kong due to the large number of people from Hong Kong and mainland China studying...

Ukraine and Russia: Peace, War and the Future

May 17, 2018
Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and enjoyed relative peace for more than two decades until February 2014. “Vladimir Putin’s gamble of using military force in Crimea and Donbas has changed the relationship drastically,” writes Volodymyr Dubovyk, associate professor of...

Global Conspiracy Theory Attacks

November 19, 2019
With local news in decline and more legitimate news behind internet paywalls, readers turn to social media where conspiracy theories are plentiful. Some conspiracy theories emerge from anxiety, such as parents worrying about the side effects of vaccinations for children. Others are deliberate...

China Turns on Charm Offensive for Bhutan

September 22, 2016
Bhutan is nestled among the Himalayas and between Asia’s two giant powers – India to the south and China to the north. The small kingdom, a country of 750,000, has long had ties with India. So India watches closely as China steps up attempts to settle longstanding border differences and strengthen...

Kids Born Abroad to Singapore Women to Inherit Citizenship

May 14, 2004
Up until this month, Singaporean women living overseas could not pass citizenship rights onto their children born out-of-country – only men were given this privilege. Children of expatriate women were forced to apply for citizenship. Yet as more Singaporean men and women leave the country to work...

Bit of Malay Culture Is Now Vanishing Under Muslim Rules

April 21, 2006
Introduced to Southeast Asia in the 13th century, Islam gradually supplanted Buddhism and Hinduism, but co-existed with ancient traditions over the centuries. Since the 1970s, however, fundamentalist Islam has spiked in multicultural countries such as Malaysia, with Muslim students and scholars...

The Islamic World and the West: Recovering Common History

July 15, 2014
One out of five people in the world are Muslim, and many Europeans express fear about growing numbers of Muslim migrants. “Islam in Europe tends to be viewed as not only a recent, but also a foreign and threatening presence,” explains Nayef Al-Rodhan, University of Oxford philosopher,...

Saudi Crown Prince Monopolizes Power

November 14, 2017
In 2013, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, at 28, was a lawyer and his career soared after his father became king of Saudi Arabia in 2015. In swift order, he became the country’s defense minister, head of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs, chairman of the Public Investment Fund, deputy...
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