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The New York TimesPhilippine Drug War Logs Deadliest Week Yet: 58 Killed in 3 Days
Philippine Drug War Logs Deadliest Week Yet: 58 Killed in 3 Days
Fifty-eight people suspected of selling or using drugs have been killed in Manila and its northern suburbs in just three days, making this the deadliest week so far in President Rodrigo Duterte’s monthslong drug crackdown, the police said Thursday.
New MandalaDistinguishing piety and fundamentalism in Indonesian Muslims
Distinguishing piety and fundamentalism in Indonesian Muslims
Survey data shows no evidence of a link between piety and intolerance, let alone violence.
Brookings InstituteTerrorism in the Philippines and US-Philippine Security Cooperation
Terrorism in the Philippines and US-Philippine Security Cooperation
Sheena Greitens discusses six policy options for how the United States should adapt its security cooperation with the Philippines to address the region's changing security and counterterrorism needs.
Foreign PolicyASEAN's Golden Moment in a Time of Crisis
ASEAN's Golden Moment in a Time of Crisis
Nina Hachigian, former US ambassador to ASEAN, discusses the significance of fifty years of ASEAN and the future of US-ASEAN policy.
Brookings InstituteThe human rights consequences of the war on drugs in the Philippines
The human rights consequences of the war on drugs in the Philippines
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Senior Fellow at Brookings, offers testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Commitee on the human rights consequences of the war on drugs in the Philippines.
New MandalaJokowi's Political Prisoner Problem
Jokowi's Political Prisoner Problem
Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch discusses the significance of the release of political prisoners in Indonesia.
United States-Indonesia SocietyThe Interplay of Religion and Politics in Indonesia: What Does Jakarta’s Gubernatorial Election Signify?
The Interplay of Religion and Politics in Indonesia: What Does Jakarta’s Gubernatorial Election Signify?
On July 25, USINDO held a Special Open Forum on the “The Interplay of Religion and Politics in Indonesia: What Does Jakarta’s Gubernatorial Election Signify?”. The discussion focused on the recent election for governor of Jakarta, and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of one of the leading candidates, Ahok, a Chinese Christian Indonesian.
The forum featured presentations by Professor Thomas Pepinsky of Cornell University and Professor Jeremy Menchik of Boston University.
The New York TimesAre Priests Duterte's Fiercest Foes?
Are Priests Duterte's Fiercest Foes?
Sheila Coronel, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, explores whether priests in the Philippines are Duterte's fiercest foes.
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NYSEAN Voices
ASEAN at 50: Poems from Across Southeast Asia
For the 50th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN, the Transpacific Literary Project presents poems by writers across Southeast Asia
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Carnegie Council Podcast- Duterte's Drug War and Human Rights in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
Duterte created a human rights calamity, says Phelim Kine of HRW
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Carnegie Council Podcast - In Cambodia, "Democracy" is just a term
Human rights lawyer Sophorn Sek discusses Cambodia's governance
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Carnegie Council Podcast- Democracy and the Deep State in Myanmar
Devin Stewart and Maureen Aung-Thwin discuss Burma's transition to democracy.
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Rebranding the Marcos Legacy
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Podcast - The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
Sverre Molland discusses the ethnography of traffickers and anti-traffickers.
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Cambodia's ruling party needs to woo disenchanted voters to retain hold on powe
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