Author: Barry Desker, RSIS The sluggishness of the World Trade Organisation in recent years has led to the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTA). The resulting...
Authors: Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly, ANU Thai politics has been out of the news since May 2010’s bloody crackdown on red-shirt protesters in central Bangkok....
Indonesian democracy is one of the Asia-Pacific’s most remarkable recent accomplishments. The turn this giant country made from autocracy under Suharto to a system of ‘one...
Author: Peter Warr, ANU On the afternoon of May 19, following weeks of protests and mayhem, most of the core Red Shirt leaders barricaded in the...
July 7 marked 90 days since Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Thailand. Even though Thai security forces quelled the Red Shirt...
Author: Nick Nostitz In 25 October 2009 I went to northeast Thailand, this time to the village of Nong Wua So, about 40 kilometres outside the...
