By Chris Wallace ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University 13 January 2020 The hope of many people enduring this summer’s firestorms is that better climate policy will arise phoenix-like from…
By Bikram Timilsina, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University 12 December 2019 Nepal’s former foreign minister Dr Bhekh Bahadur Thapa has drawn an interesting analogy around Indo-Nepal border disputes. In a…
By Haimanti Roy, University of Dayton 9 December 2019 The Indian government will soon ask its 870 million voting-age citizens for documentation that they are legal citizens with…
By Dr Ghana Shyam Chapagain 30 November 2019 Domestic violence (DV) is a rising form of human rights abuse that affects health and overall wellbeing of the individuals involved. In…
By Dr Ghana Shyam Chapagain 29 November 2019 Domestic violence (DV) is a rising form of human rights abuse that affects health and overall wellbeing of the individuals involved. In…
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, The University of Queensland 6 June 2019 The Australian Federal Police has this week conducted two high-profile raids on journalists who have exposed government secrets and their…
By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, University of Southampton 24 May 2019 India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united…
By Erin Watson-Lynn, University of Western Australia 11 April 2019 The world’s largest democratic election is set to take place in India. Voting will take place in seven phases from…
By Dr Bharat Raj Paudel 3 February 2019 Nepal has found itself in international limelight since earlier this week after a co-chairman of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)…
By Ram Khatry 5 January 2018 The first shot has been fired to kill Rabi Lamichhane’s unique journalism. It was long expected but as the fearsome stalwart of Nepalese media…
By Azadeh Dastyari, Monash University 12 December 2018 Australia was one of 176 countries to vote in favour of the Global Compact on Refugees (refugee compact) in mid-November this year.…
By Sarah Kastner, York University, Canada 5 December 2018 After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl…
By Jagannath Adhikari, Curtin University China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has ambitions to reshape the global economy by connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa through…
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 29 August 2017 Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has returned home after a 5-day long state visit to India. The coalition partners in Kathmandu –…
By Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds Donald Trump surprised international audiences with his announcement that he plans to expand the US military intervention in Afghanistan, without setting an end date.…
By Sadan Jha, Centre for Social Studies 17 August 2017 This week, India celebrates 70 years of independence. The tricolour flag, perhaps the most tangible and potent symbol of freedom…
By Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway 10 August 2017 “Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 –…
By Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia 2 August 2017 Every Facebook account comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen? Facebook has some ideas.…
By Daria Davitti, University of Nottingham 28 July 2017 On the same day that a top UN official bravely called on Australia to end the harmful practice of processing asylum…
By Nick Bisley, La Trobe University July 27, 2017 Conflict was almost baked into Asia’s post-1945 international order. Taiwan’s contested status following the communist victory in China’s civil…
