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Trump or Biden: The implications for Asia
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
For poor women who work as motorcycle-taxi drivers, the twin burdens of care-giving and supplementing family income have intensified.
Look right: The conservative elites opposing Thailand’s protesters
Right-wing royalists and a bureaucratic and ideological system have for decades lauded the monarchy and rejected criticism as “un-Thai”.
How South Korea has kept the impact of COVID-19 on jobs in check
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
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.