ENVIRONMENT
Transboundary haze is a form of seasonal air pollution affecting up to six Southeast Asian countries on an almost annual basis. The first reports of…
ANALYSIS
- by Helena Varkkey, University of Malaya
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The dispute between Australia and Timor-Leste provides an interesting example of how different states view maritime entitlements...
ANALYSIS
- by Rebecca Strating, La Trobe University
MIGRATION
Within the global asylum system, nation states have traditionally had ownership of tasks such as determining one’s asylum status and providing access to temporary housing…
ANALYSIS
- by Jennifer Ferng, University of Sydney
ENVIRONMENT
The three most common categories of government assistance to agriculture during a drought are subsidies for farm business, income supplements for low-income farm families, and…
ANALYSIS
- by John Freebairn, University of Melbourne
TRADE
It has become conventional today to deride the World Trade Organization—with its patchy record of occasionally successful, but more usually interminable, negotiations—as the lowest common…
ANALYSIS
- by Stuart Harbinson, Asia Global Institute
ENVIRONMENT
China has made substantial progress in reducing pollution, particularly since the start of the 11th Five-Year Plan in 2006. At the 2014 National People’s Congress,…
ANALYSIS
- by Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
FINANCE
Soon after U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, met in Beijing last year, China announced that it would relax or eliminate…
ANALYSIS
- by Alicia García-Herrero, Chief Economist for the Asia-Pacific, Natixis
FINANCE
As the global community grows increasingly concerned about environmental and societal issues, governments across the world are gradually transitioning to “green growth.” This involves aligning…
ANALYSIS
- by Alexandra Tracy, Hoi Ping Ventures
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