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Death penalty for apostasy: Selected Sunni and Shi’a scholars’ views in favour of abolition

  • Dr Ali Akbar & Professor Abdullah Saeed,

A change of religion is a personal matter and should not lead to any form of punishment, let alone the death penalty.

Trump or Biden: The implications for Asia

  • Professor Michael Wesley,

The US is more needed but less trusted in Asia in 2020 than it was in 2016.

“My kids need me, but we need money too”: Female GOJEK drivers in Indonesia

  • Associate Professor Amalinda Savirani & Wening Mustika,

For poor women who work as motorcycle-taxi drivers, the twin burdens of care-giving and supplementing family income have intensified.

How South Korea has kept the impact of COVID-19 on jobs in check

  • Associate Professor Kyoung-Hee Yu ,

Women have been hardest hit by COVID-related job losses in South Korea, but the jobs market generally has been resilient.

INTERVIEW: From Socialist China’s democracy movement to escalating military tensions

  • Professorial Fellow, Anne McLaren,

Over the last 50 years, China has experienced a tectonic shift from an impoverished nation with a significant democracy movement to global power with increasing political repression.

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