As ride-hailing apps spread in Southeast Asia, conflict and violence arise from the collision between drivers for these apps and drivers for conventional transport such as taxis. A close look at how conventional drivers justify their opposition to ride-hailing apps offers clues on appropriate government response.
How did Thailand’s newspaper public sphere go from an arena with critical reporting, where even the King engaged in public debate, to where it is now: heavily censored, with journalists fearful of reporting even on trivial matters?
Perbincangan berkenaan ketidaksamarataan di Malaysia selalu berkait dengan kaum etnik, tetapi faktor geografi, sejarah, kelas masyarakat, dan dasar kerajaan juga memainkan peranan penting dalam masa hadapan seorang bayi lelaki yang lahir di negara ini.
A historical, cultural, and linguistic analysis of Kristang, a Portuguese-Malay creole that stems from Malacca’s globalised past but is struggling to survive in its globalising present.
The discussion of inequality in Malaysia usually proceeds on racial/ethnic lines, but geography, history, class, and policies play a massive role in determining the opportunities available to a young man at birth.
Pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan merupakan satu aspek penting dalam politik Malaya pada tahun 1950an, tetapi ianya dimansuhkan pada tahun 1965. Kebangkitan semula demokrasi tempatan ini merupakan langkah pertama ke arah meningkatkan kebertanggungjawaban demokratik, ketelusan dan kejelasan dalam sistem politik.
Local elections were a crucial part of Malaya’s political landscape before being abolished in 1965. Reviving local democracy will increase democratic accountability, transparency and clarity in the political system.
The actual “Smart Nation” that Singaporeans live in is one where personal data is widely collected, inadequately protected, and easily misused; and the ruling elite benefits from keeping the public in a state of ignorance and apathy.
Persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya yang tidak sah dan yang melanggar perlembagaan akan mengakibatkan pilihan raya yang tidak adil dan ini akan membentuk Parlimen yang tidak menggambarkan pemilihan yang dibuat rakyat Malaysia.
The unconstitutional and illegal redelineation of Malaysia’s constituencies will create an extremely unfair election and result in a Parliament that is unrepresentative of Malaysia’s people.
Singapore's Vandalism Act (1966) was designed, from the beginning, as a political tool to humiliate those who fight to exercise their right to free speech and political expression.
Contrary to the Prime Minister's stated position of "Live and Let Live", cradle to grave discrimination in Singapore results in gay men being economically poorer and less healthy, and consequently leading shorter and more impoverished lives.
Identifying and acknowledging points of convergence and divergence could go a long way in enabling more collaborations between academics and NGOs when it comes to research into migrant worker issues.
Vietnamese artists like Truong Tan formed the vanguard of LGBTQ visibility in a country where “traditional customs” carry much weight.
The “War on Drugs” waged over a year now by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is not about addressing drug crime at all. It’s the use of violence for political control and it’s happened before—in Davao City.
How we imagine people—their capacities, values, and moral worth—shapes how we treat them. The myths, imaginations, and assumptions about poverty, wealth, welfare, and wellbeing in contemporary Singapore are important to confront because they affect how people are oriented to each other in society, how problems are defined and consequently how they are dealt with or overlooked.
Singapore, as a society, is not able to properly comprehend, let alone address, the precise problems facing migrant workers, because of three pervasive myths about low-wage temporary migrant workers.
Malay identity is vast, multifaceted and diverse, but you wouldn’t know it from the recent controversial debates over the Presidential election.
To work on multiculturalism in Singapore is to wander in a wondrous maze of diversities and their limitless combinations and exchanges. However, it is also to walk into a minefield of complexity, challenge and conflict in which one can easily get confused and lost, encounter misunderstanding and misjudgement, and experience uncertainty and anxiety.
Both the British colonial government and the post-independence People's Action Party government have used the same three myths to justify their policies. But how true are these myths?
